PhD in Life-History Theory

A 4-year position as PhD Research Fellow in statistical population ecology is available at Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo (UiO), within the Convergence Environment ’Methods for knowledge-based biodiversity monitoring and management under uncertainty’ (BioM)./nStarting date: Between August 15th and October 1st 2026./nThe employment will lead to a PhD in statistical ecology, focussing on studying correlated life-history traits, combining different sources of information, and assessing how environmental effects and management actions affect population dynamics and viability./nAvailable data include long term capture recapture data on fish (also including scale samples) and seabirds (also including tracking data)./nThe candidate will be based at Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis, Department of Biosciences.