PhD Student in Ethnobotany: History, Archaeology, and Botany of Pacific Islands (Marie Curie Doctoral Network) Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Netherlands

University College Cork is offering a 36-month fixed-term, full-time Postdoctoral Researcher position in Palaeoecology within the School of Archaeology and the Radical Humanities Laboratory. The post is part of the DeepCattle project, an ERC Consolidator Grant-funded research programme that investigates the deep history of commercial cattle farming in Europe. DeepCattle aims to trace the origins and expansion of beef and dairy production in rural Europe, and to understand how these changes shape...

The PhD project is based in the Department of Archaeological Heritage and Society at Leiden University’s Faculty of Archaeology and forms part of the NWO-funded VICI project Making History in Indigenous South America (1500–2025): A Multi-Method Approach . The position focuses on Mapuche histories within the broader project, which brings together historical research, museum collections, material culture analysis, and collaboration with Indigenous communities in Brazil and Chile. The doctoral rese...

This postdoctoral position is based at the Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica in Tarragona, Spain, within the ICAC Landscape Archaeology Research Group . The project is centred on archaeobotanical research in carpology and aims to study the evolution of food practices and tastes associated with plant-based foods in the Mediterranean. The successful researcher will work on the analysis of plant macroremains from archaeological contexts, covering periods from the Bronze Age to the medieval per...

University College Cork is advertising two 3-year postdoctoral positions on Professor Eugene Costello’s ERC project DeepCattle , which investigates the emergence of commercial cattle farming in Europe and its impacts on the economy and the environment. The first role is in Early Modern History , with a focus on archival manuscripts in Scotland and Ireland . The second role is in Palaeoecology , with a focus on pollen analysis and sedaDNA , and includes collaboration with the Centre for Palaeogen...

Postdoc opportunity at Wageningen University & Research in plant ecology, ecophysiology, urban greening, and nature-based solutions . The BIO-SKIN project (Bio-Inspired Outer Surfaces to Kool, Insulate and Nurture) is developing bio-based, waste-derived, circular façade systems that integrate plant growth to keep buildings cool, improve insulation, support biodiversity, and contribute to more sustainable urban environments. The postdoctoral researcher will study how plant-soil-insect interaction...