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Dear All,
Please spread the information about this position at the Department of Ecology, SLU,
Uppsala to potential applicants:
Associate Senior Lecturer in Ecology with special emphasis on forest protection against
economically important insect pests.
http://www.slu.se/en/about-slu/jobs-vacancies/read-more/?eng=1&Pid=3080
We are interested in candidates with experience and interest in research on insect pests
in forests with the aim to reduce their damage and achieve sustainable pest management
strategies. A suitable research focus is interactions between insect pest and host tree,
including both the insect's behaviour and the tree's defenses and resistance to
damage. Other appropriate research areas are how to counteract the damage by applying
knowledge about pest-insect population dynamics, the impact of natural enemies and by
forest management measures. The Associate Senior Lecturer is expected to conduct
high-quality research generating results that can be implemented in practical forestry.
The Associate Senior Lecturer is expected to mainly pursue research in a project that
explores the possibilities of using variation in resistance of spruce and pine seedlings
to reduce damage by pine weevils and bark beetles. To investigate variation in resistance
among material from the Swedish forest breeding program, field trials will be established
in cooperation with the Forest Research Institute of Sweden. The mechanisms that allow
seedlings with a certain genotype to survive better than others should also be studied in
the project. The project will provide an excellent basis for developing general research
skills in the area of forest protection against economically important insect pests. There
will also be room to perform and freely develop innovative research in this area. You
should be able to teach at basic and advanced levels in the subjects that are central to
your area of research, and also assist in tutoring at the advanced level and in the
development of new courses and the supervision of doctoral students. The position provides
a very good basis to build a future external financing.
The Department of Ecology conducts internationally strong empirical and theoretical
research and education aimed towards sustainable forestry, agriculture and conservation.
Our research on populations, communities and ecosystems form the basis of our research on
the effects of land use and climate on animals, plants and soil. We aim at finding
solutions that will contribute to improve greenhouse gas balance, conserve threatened
species, support biodiversity and ecosystem services, sustainable wildlife management and
pest management in forest and agricultural landscape as well as in urban areas. A research
area of great applied interest is to find environmentally beneficial ways to counteract
economically significant damage to forest production caused by insect pests.
Best regards,
Christer B
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Christer Björkman, professor
Department of Ecology
Swedish University of Agricultural University
PO Box 7044, SE-750 07 Uppsala, Sweden
Phone: +46 18 671532
Fax: +46 18 672890
E-mail: christer.bjorkman@slu.se<mailto:christer.bjorkman@slu.se>
www.slu.se/ecology/christerbjorkman<http://www.slu.se/ecology/christerbj…
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