Postdoc Opportunities in Ecology

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...

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 within a broad environmental science and engineering environment. As one of seven laboratories in USACE-ERDC, EL focuses on solving environmental challenges for the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the nation through applied research and development. Participants will work under the guidance of a mentor in a real-world laboratory setting and gain hands-on experience with ...

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute is offering a postdoctoral researcher fellowship through the Smithsonian Institution Fellowship Program (SIFP) for research based at STRI in Panama. This award supports independent postdoctoral research in an internationally recognized tropical research environment. Fellows can conduct projects for 3 to 24 months , making this a flexible opportunity for researchers whose work benefits from access to STRI’s scientific setting and research community. The...

The STRI SIFP Biodiversity Genomics Postdoctoral Fellowship supports postdoctoral research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. Fellows join collaborative research at STRI and apply comparative genomic approaches to questions in biodiversity, evolution, and ecology. The project area includes phylogenetics, population genomics, metagenomics, and transcriptomics, with a clear emphasis on genomic methods for studying biodiversity. The fellowship is part of the Smithsonian Insti...

STRI Short-Term Fellowships offer a three-month introduction to tropical research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The scheme is designed to support researchers at different career stages, including undergraduates, master's students, PhD candidates, and postdoctoral researchers, in carrying out short research visits within STRI's tropical research environment. The fellowship is structured as a compact research stay that helps participants engage with tropical biology and...

This 24-month postdoctoral fellowship is offered by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama and supports research on resilience and sustainability in tropical systems. The project scope is broad, allowing fellows to develop work in either marine or terrestrial tropical environments. The fellowship is designed for postdoctoral researchers and is based at STRI, giving awardees access to an internationally recognized tropical research setting in Panama. The scheme is intended to suppo...

The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute offers the Anthony G. Coates 3-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship for research across the broad range of fields practiced at STRI. This is a postdoctoral opportunity based in Panama, giving fellows access to a tropical research environment associated with one of the world’s leading institutes for field-based and interdisciplinary science. The fellowship is open to worldwide applicants and is designed for researchers whose work fits within STRI’s research are...

The STRI 3-Year TUPPER Postdoctoral Fellowship is a three-year postdoctoral opportunity hosted by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. It supports research in any field practised at STRI, giving fellows the freedom to pursue projects aligned with the institute’s broad tropical research mission. Fellows are based at STRI in Panama, working within an internationally recognised research environment focused on tropical science. The fellowship is designed for postdoctoral researcher...