Postdoctoral Fellow

RMIT University

We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work on an ARC funded project that deals wiith ecological modelling. The project will continue for two-years with a possible extension depending on funding availability. The applicant should have a good mathematics/statistics background as well as a strong interest in ecology/biology.

The project is being run at RMIT University, led by PI's
Lewi Stone, Yan Wang, Ascelin Gordon.

External Principal Investigators: David Dowe, Monash University
Robert Dorazio USGS, Andy Solow Woods Hole

Project Summary:

Identifying how species are distributed over the landscape, interact and self-organize into foodwebs are central goals in Ecology. This project will provide innovative new modelling tools to improve our understanding of species distributions and their foodweb networks. Broadly speaking, the successful candidate together with the PI's will be developing a general framework for extending species distribution models to deal with multiple species, incorporating both their interactions as well as surveillance errors in detection. Secondly, the candidate will develop modern network approaches for analysing foodwebs. This is a loose guideline; there are also possibilities for pursuing work on related research topics.

Applicants should send CV's plus the names of three potential referees to Prof. Lewi Stone lewistone2@gmail.com preferably before January 31, 2014. Enquiries are welcome.