The Department of Zoology at Stockholm University has just opened a search for an Assistant Professor in Ethology.
This is a four-year tenure-track position, with a career path with the opportunity for promotion to a permanent position as Associate Professor in Ethology at the department*.
The field of ethology explains behavior, using micro- and/or macroevolutionary perspectives, through integration of mechanistic and adaptive approaches.
The assistant professorship consists mainly of research but also some teaching (typically ca. 10% of the time) and supervision. At the Department of Zoology, research is being pursued in ecology, ethology, functional morphology, population genetics and systematics and evolution. The spirit of research is collaborative, both within the department and internationally. The department has a total of 16 permanent Associate Professor/Full Professor positions, and presently accommodates 45-50 staff and about the same number of PhD students.
Research in ethology at the department currently covers a wide range of topics, including behavior, cognition and brain size in guppies, the ontogeny of social behavior in dogs and wolves, insect phenology, evolution of phenotype determination, predator psychology and the evolution of aposematism and mimicry in bird-insect interactions, bird migration, comparative methods, personality and social dominance in fowl, and foraging behavior in red deer and fallow deer. The department has laboratory space for large-scale studies of insects and fishes at the Stockholm campus, and also a large and well-equipped field station with great opportunities for ethological studies.
Informal inquiries can be made to Prof. Olof Leimar (olof.leimar [ chez ] zoologi.su.se). Note that applications should be submitted through the Stockholm University website, where further details also are available:
http://www.su.se/english/about/vacancies/lecturers-researchers/assistant-professor-in-ethology-1.208390
Closing Date: Monday 15 December 2014
* Decisions about promotion will be based on the research and teaching expertise of the person awarded the assistant professorship, as evaluated in the fourth year of the position. For an ambitious and successful person, the chances of promotion are very high. Seehttp://www.science.su.se/english/rules-regulations/guidelines-for-employment-recruitement-1.67131 for a document detailing the formal requirements for promotion to associate professor.