PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology in Poland

RECOVER – the Romanian Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Society is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the University of Bucharest team in a national consortium coordinated by Babeș-Bolyai University. The project brings together ecology, geography, and the social sciences and humanities to study biodiversity change, ecosystem services, and nature’s contributions to people, and to co-design conservation and restoration solutions with stakeholders. The selecte...

This PhD project examines how the return of the wolf in the Netherlands affects year-round grazing by large herbivores, especially cattle and horses, and what that means for nature management, vegetation development, and public access. The research is centered on understanding how grazers respond to wolves, how breed and herd composition shape resilience, and how changes in behaviour and habitat use influence ecological outcomes across managed natural areas. The project combines several compleme...

The University of South Africa (UNISA) is offering a three-year postdoctoral research fellowship in small and medium-sized carnivore ecology through the Applied Behavioural Ecology and Ecosystem Research Unit (ABEERU), within the Department of Environmental Sciences. The collaborative project involves the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Eugène Marais Chair of Wildlife Management at the University of Pretoria. Research will take place in the Tswalu Kalahari Reserve and will investiga...

The University of Oulu is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Conservation Genomics to join the Ecology and Genetics Research Unit in the Faculty of Science. The researcher will contribute to the European Union LIFE SOS project, which supports the long-term survival of the critically endangered Saimaa ringed seal ( Pusa saimensis ), a species found exclusively in Lake Saimaa, Finland. The project combines genetic research, population modelling, and practical conservation to help increase the se...

The Yorkshire Environmental Sciences Doctoral Training Network (YES-DTN) is recruiting more than 26 fully funded PhD scholars for environmental science research projects in the United Kingdom. Projects are hosted by the University of Leeds and the University of York , bringing together research schools and departments across environmental and natural sciences. The network’s research spans Dynamic Earth and Natural Hazards , Atmosphere and Climate , and Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity . Parti...

The University of South Africa invites applications for a three-year Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in vegetation ecology within the Applied Behavioural Ecology & Ecosystem Research Unit (ABEERU), Department of Environmental Sciences. The fellow will be hosted jointly by Professor L.R. Brown and Dr Haemish Melville and will contribute to interdisciplinary research across savanna and grassland ecosystems. The fellowship includes research on the ecological effects of megafaunal carcass decomposi...

Wageningen University & Research is seeking a PhD candidate to investigate how forest carbon uptake is changing worldwide under climate change and disturbance. The project examines the global carbon sink in forests and its role in removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The researcher will combine atmospheric carbon dioxide observations, Earth Observation products, and numerical models to quantify forest carbon balances across continents and time scales ranging from days to decades. The wor...

This postdoctoral position at La Rochelle Université focuses on quantitative ecology within a project developing a digital twin approach for marine ecology and conservation. The work builds on an existing simulation framework for individual movement trajectories and aims to move from individual-scale predictions to population-scale dynamics. The researcher will develop quantitative and statistical methods to aggregate simulated individual trajectories into population-level patterns of movement a...

The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center’s Environmental Laboratory (EL) offers a research appointment for post-bachelor and graduate students in an applied, mentor-guided laboratory environment. EL is one of the seven laboratories within USACE-ERDC and supports environmental challenges for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the nation through environmental science and engineering research and development. Participants work alongside researchers in a broad, interdiscipli...