Doctoral Position in Bioscience

vor 2 Monaten

Konstanz, Deutschland Universität Konstanz Vollzeit

(part-time 65 %, E 13 TV-L)

**Reference no.**: 2024/051. The start date is September 1st, 2024 or by agreement. The position is available initially for 3.5 years.

The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy.

**Background**: Movement strategies and energetic dynamism are inherently linked, such that social groups are bounded by shared resource and information needs with macroecological consequences for space use at local and global scales. This is especially so for those moving in aerial environments where the extreme cost of flight has led to the evolution of soaring strategies that exploit aerial updrafts as a resource for decreased movement costs, in the same way that they search for food patches to increase fuel uptake. Up-to-date information on resource availability is key to operating in dynamic landscapes and moving systems must be selected to perceive relevant information, build up an expectation, and act so as to exploit the energy available optimally. Yet the idea that social information can be used to perceive movement energetics as an essential strategy for reduced movement costs has been completely overlooked. This PhD will investigate how the energy efficiency of the largest soaring bird, the Andean Condor (Vultur gryphus), is influenced by the availability of social cues and the resources they relate to, with particular focus on movement costs and strategies: the aim being to provide a mechanistic understanding for the emergence of animal aggregations, exploring the the functional complexity of collectives and their resilience to environmental dynamics.

**Research Statement**: Applications should include a 1-2 page research statement that describes:
i) your main research interests, how they developed, and how they relate to the proposed research project.

ii) how you would approach this PhD project with research questions of interest.

Your Responsibilities
- Establish a long-term field site for the tracking of a population of Andean Condors (Argentina) through yearly field trips (between 1 and 2 months long)
- Deployment of cutting-edge bio-logging technology (GPS, proximity, IMU, environmental variables)
- Map resource landscapes and the social landscape
- Model social information use in movement decisions
- Complete a PhD thesis and present work in conferences, outreach and/or publication
- To engage in teamwork and with the Move.inFormation group

Your Competencies
- Strong desire to work in the field with remote working conditions
- Prior experience with programming/coding (R, python, Julia)
- Strong organisational skills for working with large data sets and code sharing
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to work with equal collaborators in Argentina and other German Institutions
- Masters degree in any related scientific discipline

We Offer
- Move.inFormation research group is a vibrant new group at the University of Konstanz with an interdisciplinary team of scientists seeking the common goal to quantify the value of social information in movement
- Fully funded research with competitive salary and family friendly institution
- Excellent development opportunities and extensive training in skills in the field, tagging, data analyses and writing
- Weekly seminar and workshop events across disciplines and institutions.
- Benefit from the joint supervision of Prof. Martin Wikelski at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Konstanz, and Prof. Sergio Lambertucci based in Bariloche, Argentina and lead of the collaborating team GRINBIC, INIBIOMA, CONICET
- The chance to join the IMPRS-QBEE graduate school and benefit from it’s support for graduate students
- Konstanz is a vibrant city located on the border between Germany and Switzerland, on Lake Constance and close to the Alps

The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity, as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our. Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact, + 49 7531 88-4016).

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