The Research Area Sustainable Resource Use within the Institute for Ecological Economics is currently inviting applications for a 30-40 hours/week Project Staff Member/Postdoctoral Researcher position on “Geospatial assessments of global raw material extraction and related environmental and social impacts” for Geographer/Geo-Informatics (post-doc, employee subject to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff - Angestellte/r gemäß Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten; gross monthly salary on a full-time basis, paid 14 times per year: Euro 3,626,60). This employee position will be initially limited to a period of 3 years, starting on January 1, 2018 (Note that a slightly different starting date could be negotiated).

This position is part of the ERC Consolidator Grant project FINEPRINT (Spatially explicit material footprints: fine-scale assessment of Europe’s global environmental and social impacts, led by Dr. Stefan Giljum. FINEPRINT develops and applies a new method for fine-scale assessments of global material flows, in order to perform spatially explicit analyses of material footprints and related environmental and social impacts of European consumption.

Applications can be submitted online until November 1, 2017.

If you are interested in this position within our Institute, please have a look at our "Job offers" website: https://www.wu.ac.at/en/ecolecon/institute/job-offers/