Scientific Employee for The Biodiversa+ Project

**External Job Announcement**

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Modern, interconnected, conscious of tradition: Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) is the old
- est and largest university in the State of Saxony-Anhalt with a history dating back more than 500 years. Today

more than 20,000 students are enrolled at the university. MLU’s core research areas are in the nanosciences

and biosciences, the Enlightenment, as well as in social and cultural research. The university is also home to

a range of small disciplines, some of which can be found nowhere else in Germany. The university has excel
- lent national and international ties, and works closely together with leading research institutes, industry, and

more than 250 universities around the world.

The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, in cooperation with the German Centre for Integrative Bio
- diversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, offers the following position in Leipzig, starting as soon as pos
- sible and limited for 36 months (if PhD position) or 26 months (if Postdoc Position):
Scientific employee for the Biodiversa+ Project _“WildINTEL”_ (M/F/d)

as full-time employment (100%, Postdoc position) or part-time employment (65%, PhD position).

The salary will be up to Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L, if the personal requirements and tasks are fulfilled. The work
- place will be in Leipzig in the Biodiversity Conservation research group.

The project and research group:
The **German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig** explores how biodiver
- sity can be recorded, how it develops in the course of evolution, how it changes, what consequences it has for

the functioning of ecosystems and how it can be preserved in the long term. iDiv is jointly funded by the Uni
- versity of Leipzig, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena and the Helmholtz

Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ and will be continued with generous support from the federal

states of Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia and Saxony after termination of the DFG funding. More information about
- vised by Dr. Néstor Fernández and affiliated with the Biodiversity Conservation Group of Henrique M. Pereira.

The Biodiversity Conservation group aims to understand the patterns and processes of biodiversity change, with

the goal of informing environmental policy and management of ecosystems. For more information, please visit

The project “**Building a scalable WILDlife monitoring system by integrating remote camera sampling and**

**artificial INTELigence with Essential Biodiversity Variables - WildINTEL”** is funded by Biodiversa+ and the

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)**. **The goal of the project is to advance data-model integration of cam
- era trapping observations for monitoring biodiversity. The successful applicant will develop a workflow for Es

in various study areas. She or he will also carry out a field camera trapping study in the Oder Delta region

between Germany and Poland and analyze the data collected in the region since 2021. This research will be in

collaboration with an international team involving other partners and study areas of the Biodiversa+ Consortium,

including in Poland, Norway, and Spain.

veröffentlicht am 25.09.2024

**Tasks**:

- Develop a standardized workflow for estimating Essential Biodiversity Variables from camera trapping data
- Develop the code for making the standardized workflow and analyses easily reproducible by multiple users,
- Conduct a camera trapping study to analyze mammal communities in the Oder Delta
- Develop statistical models to estimate population abundance, community composition and species interac
- tion using camera trapping, e.g.: distance-sampling, random encounter, joint species distribution, and other

methods
- Contribute to achieve the milestones and deliverables of the WildINTEL Project, including writing the reports
- Participate actively and contribute to the organization of project-related workshops and meetings, including

project coordination meetings, meetings and workshops with stakeholders and users of the products, etc.
- Write research articles about the findings of the research and present the work in scientific meetings and

conferences

**Requirements**:

- A completed scientific University degree (Diploma/M.Sc.) in Ecology, Conservation Biology, Environmental

Sciences or related disciplines
- A good publication record in relation to years of research experience
- Provable research skills in ecological statistics and modeling as well as geographic information systems
- Experience in ecological field surveys and camera trapping is a plus
- Fluency in English in speaking and writing; a good command of German is a plus
- Overall excellent communication skills
- German or international driving license is necessary

with equivalent qualifications. Women are particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants with a degree that was