Postdoctoral Researcher - Orangutan ranging decisions and socioecology
At the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Radolfzell / Constance
The
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior at its sites in Konstanz and
Radolfzell offers an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative
environment that opens up unique research opportunities. The goal of
our basic research is to understand and predict animal decision-making
in the natural world.
The
Max Planck Department for the Ecology of Animal Societies, together
with the Max Planck Research Group of Development and Evolution of
Cognition and the Max Planck Fellow Group Comparative Socioecology,
would like to fill this position as soon as possible, ideally by
September 1st 2021.
The position (60-100%), is limited to a maximum of 3 years and will be located in Constance.
Your tasks
The
successful candidate will work primarily with behavioral and ranging
data of Bornean orangutans collected over 15 years. By analyzing ranging
data of simultaneous follows, we intend to identify the rules governing
decisions by the various sex-age classes to initiate, terminate, or
avoid associations with others. In addition, a comparative project will
focus on social, ecological and cognitive drivers of movement and
ranging by multiple frugivorous primate species using the same forest.
Additional opportunities exist for involvement in ongoing projects on
alternative male reproductive tactics and mother-offspring conflict
under varying ecological conditions, based on existing orangutan data
from a Bornean and a Sumatran population. No fieldwork is foreseen
during this postdoc.
Your profile
Applicants
should hold a PhD degree in Biology or a related field, and be
distinguished by a proven academic interest and experience with data
collection on the behavior of wild animals, while simultaneously having
expertise in the analysis of spatial data and modern statistical
modeling (including both frequentist and Bayesian analyses). Enthusiasm
for working as part of an interdisciplinary, international team is
expected.
Our offer
Candidates
will work in a dynamic and highly international research environment.
Our working language is English and consequently, applicants must be
fluent in this language; knowledge of German is not required. The
payment is made in accordance with your qualification and the collective
agreement for the public service (TVöD-Bund).
For further information regarding this position please contact Maria van Noordwijk (vnoord@ab.mpg.de).
The
Max Planck Society endeavors to employ more severely disabled people.
Applications of severely disabled persons are expressly welcome. The Max
Planck Society strives for gender and diversity equality. We welcome
applications from all backgrounds. For details see http://www.mpg.de/equal_opportunities.
Are you interested?
Then
we are looking forward to receiving your application until June 30,
2021, as a single PDF file, including a statement of interest, CV and
list of publications, names of three references, contact information,
and a sample publication. Please submit your application documents online.