The position is part of the project Ecological Archaeologies of the Afrotropics (EcoArch), funded by the European Research Council. More information about the project can be found here. The appointed candidate will work within the overarching goal of the project EcoArch to disentangle the drivers of landscape and climate change in the Afrotropics since the introduction of domesticated food economies. The project will collect and analyse diverse types of data for the reconstruction of changes in climate, biodiversity and wildfires across different biomes and examine the role of human activities in shaping the landscape. The engineer will primarily be responsible for and perform sedimentary ancient DNA laboratory work together with the other team members. In addition, she/he will administrate the EcoArch project on our HPC cluster and assist with the bioinformatic analyses. The engineer will be integrated in the research group, engage in the data analyses and have the opportunity to join as co-author on relevant publications.
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