I’m reaching out to spread the word that have internal funding for a postdoc in my lab at Villanova University starting this August with guaranteed funding for 2-3 years: https://jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33765.
The position is 50:50 teaching and research. Among several other projects, I’m looking for help with a collaboration I’m developing with a small local nonprofit farm that grows food for the community to combat food insecurity. We’re going to try to help them develop human-wildlife strategies to ethically prevent crop loss. This is in the early stages, but we’re looking to get some nestbox and trail cameras, start documenting what species visit the farm, and who is snacking on the produce. They already know that they have an issue with voles, and they have seen barn owl at night, so one initial idea is to put up a few barn owl nest boxes and encourage the owls to deter the voles. This project will be integrated in the teaching responsibilities with a lab course giving students observational research experience. I’m hoping to grow this collaboration to enable experimental studies of cognition in the wild. Individuals with experience and/or interest in field work, video coding, and sustainability/conservation would be particularly well suited to the is postdoc opportunity.
The applicant may be ABD when they apply but must have completed their PhD by the time they start the position in August. Review of applications begins March 16th, but interested applicants should reach out to me if they need a bit more time to put together a strong application.