The department Ecosystem Modeling identifies key mechanisms of the human-driven transformation of marine ecosystems (www.hereon.de/ecomod). Within the collaborative JPI-Ocean research project "Impacts of artificial light at night on pelagic ecosystems in European seas” (ALANIS), we examine how changing lightscapes through artificial light at night or coastal darkening (increases in light attenuation) impact marine food-webs and ecosystem functioning. By bringing together field observations and mechanistic models, the candidate should specifically investigate how changing lightscapes affect visual predation by fish and vertical mobility patterns of fish and plankton, and how the effects propagate down to the base of the food-web. Identified relationships should then be extrapolated to different ecosystems in European seas, also in support of management efforts.

Our team is internationally renowned in the field of trait-based marine modeling. Within our research institute and the project ALANIS, your work will be tightly embedded into an interdisciplinary and inter-institutional network. As a postdoctoral researcher in coupled hydrodynamic-ecological modeling (24 months, 100%), you will fill a central position to reach important objectives of the project.

Equal opportunity is an important part of our personnel policy. We would therefore strongly encourage qualified women to apply for the position. The position is full-time (39 hours/week).