Postdoctoral Fellow with a focus on National Biodiversity Accounting at the Political Science Department, Lund University
The open postdoctoral position is fully funded for 2 years and is part of the 4-year research programme Mistra Biopath and in particular the work package "Mainstreaming biodiversity through governance innovations". The deadline for applications is 30 April 2024.
The position is based on a partnership with the Basque Center for Climate Change (BC3) at which they are developing artificial intelligence to integrate modeling of coupled human-natural systems. BC3 is specifically developing ARIES (Artificial Intelligence for Environment and Sustainability; https://aries.integratedmodelling.org/) to better integrate ecosystem services into the UN system of national accounts.
The applicant will work in an interdisciplinary environment that is particularly focused on applied and solution-oriented research of strategic relevance to the transition to a better integration of biodiversity into decision-making.
Main responsibilities
The postdoctoral project will develop biodiversity-related decision support tools intended to guide the conservation of biodiversity. The core of the project is a national pilot account for biodiversity based on the SEEA-EA standards for ecosystem services. Experimental national accounts for biodiversity will be developed and tested in collaboration with data providers and potential users in academia as well as in the public and private sectors. The project is expected to use ARIES (https://seea.un.org/content/aries-for-seea) and the case study for the development of the experimental biological ecosystems is the Swedish forestry sector. The project thus aims at applied decision support for the assessment of forest policies.
Read more about how to apply, qualification requirements, assessment criteria, terms of employment at Postdoctoral Fellow with a focus on National Biodiversity Accounting at the Political Science Department (varbi.com)
Contact person: Associate Prof. Nils Droste, nils.droste@svet.lu.se