PhD in Evolutionary Biology

Position as PhD Research Fellow in palaeoecology and sedimentary ancient DNA available at the Department of Biosciences./nStarting date no later than 01.07.2026./nThe fellowship period is three years./nA fourth year may be considered and it will involve 25 percent of other career-promoting work./nPlace of work is the Department of Biosciences at Blindern, Oslo./nThe interdisciplinary ERC-Synergy project "EcoArch: Ecological archaeologies of the Afrotropics", funded by the European Research Council H2020 scheme, seeks to understand the drivers of landscape change across the Afrotropics over the last 6000 years./nThe 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.