We are recruiting a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Biology, Lund University, Sweden. The project aims to quantify the loss of genomic diversity through five millennia of elephant ivory trade. It includes a genomic analysis of elephant ivory confiscated in illegal imports to Europe and historical ivory from museums and archaeological collections as a source of key insights into elephant history, the present-day poaching crisis, as well as for improved elephant conservation in the future. This project is funded by a FORMAS grant “A genomic investigation of the diversity lost to the elephant ivory trade” awarded to Dr. Patrícia Pečnerová. The project is led by Dr. Patrícia Pečnerová who is affiliated to the University of Copenhagen and Lund University. The postdoctoral fellow will be hosted by Prof. Bengt Hansson at the Molecular Ecology and Evolution Lab, Department of Biology, at Lund University.

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