Job Description
Post Doctoral Research Associate (Dynamic and
Deterministic Modelling of Crop and Soil Processes)
About The Team:
SRUC is unique in Scotland and one of the largest organisations of its kind in Europe. Our ambitious and exciting vision is to work at local, national and international levels, leading innovation and sustainable development in agriculture and rural sectors.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher with an interest in dynamic and deterministic modelling of crop and soil processes. The successful candidate will work on the EU-funded IntercropVALUES project (The project - IntercropVALUES), which aims to harness the benefits of intercropping to design and manage productive, diversified, resilient, profitable, and environmentally sustainable cropping systems that are acceptable to farmers and stakeholders across the agri-food chain.
As part of this project, a field experiment has been conducted measuring key crop characteristics and N2O emissions from barley–pea intercrops. The postdoctoral researcher will be responsible for modelling and analysing these data.
You will be expected to contribute to publishing the results in the scientific literature so you will have a track record of publishing in refereed journals. The post holder will also be expected to develop strong linkages with colleagues in the w...