Overview
Are you an ambitious researcher looking for your next challenge? Do you have an established background in biogeochemical modelling? Do you want to further your career in one of the UKs leading research intensive Universities?
This post is part of a funded NERC project “Determining extinction correlates on geological timescales”. This exciting project between the Universities of Leeds, Oxford and Southampton will assess how environmental factors like marine oxygen levels and pH have contributed to extinction risk for animals over the last 500 million years of Earth’s history. This work will help to enable estimates of extinction risk for modern day species under current climate end environmental change.
You will work with our SCION climate-biogeochemical model to help produce new best-guess reconstructions of ocean conditions over geological timescales. This will include uncertainty analysis, data collation and comparison, and potential revision of some model processes and assumptions. This work will enable other project researchers at Southampton and Oxford to build 3D maps of the marine environment, and to test regional extinction risk, respectively.
Sponsorship and visa information
Please note that this post may be suitable for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route but first-time applicants might need to qualify for salary concessions. For more information please visit: www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa. For Global Talent visa eligibility, see: https://www.gov.uk/global-talent.
What we offer in return
* 26 days holiday plus approx. 16 Bank Holidays/days that the University is closed by custom (including Christmas) – That’s 42 days a year!
* Generous pension scheme plus life assurance– the University contributes 14.5% of salary
* Health and Wellbeing: Discounted staff membership options at The Edge, our state-of-the-art Campus gym, with a pool, sauna, climbing wall, cycle circuit, and sports halls.
* Personal Development: Access to courses run by our Organisational Development & Professional Learning team.
* Access to on-site childcare, shopping discounts and travel schemes are also available.
And much more!
If you are looking for a role that will help you to develop your research in a world-leading team, please apply today.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have
Contact: Professor Benjamin Mills
Email: b.mills@leeds.ac.uk
Salary: £41,064 to £48,822 per annum
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