Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Ecology

Ca’ Foscari is engaged in achieving a world-class scientific environment, recruiting the best talents worldwide. Our talented young researchers and experienced senior professors collaborate to make Ca’ Foscari a stimulating environment for career development and freedom of research. Our University is committed to achieving excellence in research, funding promising researchers and developing international partnerships. As a leading research university, Ca’ Foscari has set a new agenda designed around six global challenges, exploring cutting-edge research directions that cross disciplinary boundaries. 

Ca’ Foscari is looking for a researcher of Ecology capable of inspiring students to become game-changers in their own fields and to make a genuine difference in the world. 

Teaching commitment: the researcher will teach Ecology, Applied Ecology and Ecology in the presence of contaminants in BA and MA and PhD courses of Ca’ Foscari University. The researcher will also contribute to the training of qualified personnel to be included in Institutions, businesses and companies requiring specific skills in applied ecology in the marine-coastal sector.

Research commitment: the researcher will deal with study of interactions between the biotic and abiotic components, the evaluation of biodiversity, the determination of environmental quality through indicators/indices referable to various levels of biological complexity and the sustainable management of fisheries resources. The researcher must have consolidated experience in the development and implementation of experimental protocols for the evaluation of the impacts caused by human pressures, including pollution and the effects of climate change. In particular, the researcher should be able to plan experimental activities in the field and in the laboratory, contribute to conducting them and processing the data collected using statistical procedures and/or mathematical models, in order to achieve the set goals. 

The position is at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics.

The Department is engaged in multidisciplinary research, carried out by brilliant researchers in the fields of environmental systems analysis, management and modelization of environmental and informatic systems, climate studies, complexity, preservation of cultural heritage and sustainability. 

The Institution

Since its foundation in 1868, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has been a leader in Economics and Foreign Languages and Cultures. Today, Ca’ Foscari is exploring new frontiers in research, focusing on Climate Change, Digital Humanities, Digital and Social Innovation, and Nanosciences. An intellectual powerhouse of international repute in the heart of the city of Venice, Ca’ Foscari provides a one-of-a-kind blend of scientific research, cultural heritage and history, offering a life-changing experience to its students and researchers, with a transformative impact on the local community. 

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice has also obtained the full Human Resources Strategy for Researchers certificate, a set of initiatives to improve work conditions for researchers and to attract talents worldwide. Ca’ Foscari provides applicants with exclusive services and onboarding initiatives. Our Housing office will help you search for a suitable and convenient accommodation, matching your needs and preferences with the available options. 

If you are a non-Italian applicant or if you have resided outside of Italy for more than 3 years, you will benefit from a favorable tax treatment for the first years of the contract. 

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Application deadline: 1 pm, 27 April 2023

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