3-year PhD funding on Despotism & Hierarchy in Spotted hyenas

 We are recruiting a PhD student to work with Oliver Höner and myself on the determinants of dominance styles and hierarchical properties in the spotted hyena. The student will be based at the Leibniz-IZW in Berlin (Germany) as part of our research group Ngorongoro Hyena Project (https://hyena-project.com/).

This project is part of an international collaboration with Elise Huchard and Marie Charpentier from the ISEM (Montpellier) and Dieter Lukas from the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig) to study the evolution of despotic societies in mammals ("DESPOT"), which is co-funded by the French (ANR) and German (DFG) research foundations for 3 years.

The student will have at their disposal an exceptional individual-based dataset compiling 27 years of demographic, ecological, social and behavioral data on the eight clans of spotted hyenas that make up the population living on the floor of the Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania). The student will also have the opportunity to do fieldwork in Tanzania and contribute to data collection.

This is a full-time position with a comfortable salary in the range of 1600-1800 euros netto per month (translation of the administrative jargon indicated by the mention "65% TVöD (Bund) E13" in the official announcement).

The application deadline is 10 March 2023 for a start date on 1 June 2023.

A detailed description of the offer and the application procedure is available on the online platform: https://short.sg/j/28105318

We would be grateful if you circulated this announcement in your networks. Feel free to contact me (Eve Davidian: davidian.ceve[at]gmail.com) and Oliver Höner (hoener[at]izw-berlin.de) for more information.