Oferty pracy w projektach finansowanych przez NCN

Nazwa jednostki: Institute of Oceanology Polish Academy of Sciences – Sopot, Inne oferty z tego miasta »
Nazwa stanowiska: Post-doc position
Wymagania:

Requirements:
1. * PhD in Oceanography, or any scientific field within Marine Ecology/Oceanography/Bioinformatics
2. Background knowledge of marine life and marine ecosystem functioning 3. Record of scientific publications in journals listed in the Journal Citation Reports, preferably in the field of marine ecosystem research 4. Knowledge and experience in statistical software and analyses (e.g., Matlab, Python, R) 5. Good analytical skills 6. Experience in working in scientific projects 7. Good communication skills 8. Experience in international collaboration (e.g., internships/fellowships abroad) 9. Experience in working with new technologies and/or modern sensors 10. Networking skills to develop relationships with other project participants 11. Enthusiasm 12. Very good English

*The candidate must have obtained a PhD degree not earlier than 7 years before the year of employment in the project (pursuant to the NCN OPUS
26 call regulations; the period may be extended in accordance with NCN rules).

Opis zadań:

OFFER DESCRIPTION

Post-doc position in a project funded by the National Science Centre: “Transparency – important morphological trait for qualitative assessment of marine particles and plankton (T-trait)”. The job will be working on particles and plankton data assessed optically by UVP (Underwater Vision Profiler) and LOPC (Laser Optical Plankton Counter), mostly in polar waters, and seeking for their relationships with spatio-temporal and environmental gradients, with the special emphasis on investigating their transparency.

Projects’ abstract:
Plankton organisms as well as marine snow are the crucial elements to follow processes by which organic carbon is produced, stored, utilized and transported towards the sea floor. Their role in Biological Carbon Pump is highly determined by their size, but possibly also other morphological traits are important. The T-trait project aims to recognize the potential of transparency as valuable morphological trait that is easily assessed by automatic methods, to broaden a spectrum of meaningful traits describing particles and plankton quality for better assessment of the state and functioning of marine pelagic realm and carbon export to sea bottom. The concentrations and morphological traits of plankton and particles will be tested in relation to environmental factors (temperature, salinity, chlorophyll fluorescence, chemistry, turbidity) as well as across spatial (horizontal and vertical) and temporal perspectives. Additionally, the relationship between transparency and other morphological traits (e.g. shape) will be investigated. It is hypothesized that by following the variability of transparency trait across all those factors, its specific biogeochemical meaning and relationship to specific marine processes will be found. For this purpose, datasets provided by the most common and modern automatic method for in situ particles and plankton assessment will be used: Underwater Vision Profiler (UVP). As a model system, polar regions were selected, because the on-going climate warming leaves significant footprints there, with ice retreat as one of the most spectacular consequences. Therefore, the coastal polar waters are perfect landscape for tracking spatio-temporal variations in biogeochemical response of pelagic ecosystem to such changes. The novelty of the proposed research is centred around the perspective of more comprehensive perception of marine snow and zooplankton structuring, by adding the other than size master trait – transparency to expand biogeochemical connectivity and facilitate predictions of ecosystem responses to stressors such as climate change.

Tasks:
1. Analysis of huge databases collected by UVP (Underwater Vision Profiler) and LOPC (Laser Optical Plankton Counter)
2. Statistical analysis of the relationships between the occurrence and distribution patterns of particles plankton and environmental parameters
3. Statistical analysis of the relationships between morphological traits of particles and plankton across spatio-temporal and environmental gradients
4. Visualizations, synthesizing, summarizing, and presenting obtained results
5. Project dissemination in form of conference presentations, social media, popular
and science articles
6. Assistance in supervising students
7. Writing of 2-3 scientific papers

Typ konkursu NCN: OPUS – ST
Termin składania ofert: 16 marca 2026, 23:59
Forma składania ofert: email
Warunki zatrudnienia:

Type of contract and job status: full-time employment contract
Offer starting date: April/May 2026
Period of employment: 30 months - fixed-term contract
Description of working conditions and entitlements, including prospects for professional development:
What we offer:
- employment at a research institute with an international reputation
- work in an internation dynamically developing team
- opportunity to expand your scientific achievements
- participation in national and international scientific conferences
- involvement in research conducted in various marine areas
- support in applying for research grants funded by Polish and international institutions
- great atmosphere and excellent level of science based on extensive datasets

Salary: 11 600 PLN/month (brutto brutto)

Dodatkowe informacje:

Additional informations:
REQUIRED DOCUMENTS
1) Curriculum Vitae
2) Cover letter
3) Copy of the doctoral diploma
4) List of scientific achievements
5) List of publications
6) Recommendation letter from former supervisor/group leader
7) Consent clause*

DATE, METHOD AND PLACE OF SUBMISSION OF DOCUMENTS
1) Documents should be sent electronically to the address:
rekrutacja@iopan.pl (cc to to the project PI: Assoc. Prof. Emilia Trudnowska, emilia@iopan.pl), with message title “Post-doc – T-TRAIT” or submitted in person at the secretary's office of the Institute of Oceanology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, 81-712 Sopot, ul.
Powstańców Warszawy 55.
2) Deadline for submitting documents: 16th March 2026 r.

For additional information, please contact the project leader, Assoc.
Prof. Emilia Trudnowska (emilia@iopan.pl).

Please send the required documents to the following e-mail address:
rekrutacja@iopan.pl (cc: emilia@iopan.pl), with the subject title:
Post-doc – T-TRAIT.

*Please attach a signed document with the following consent clause:
https://old.iopan.pl/praca/CONSENT_CLAUSE.pdf

Information clause on the processing of personal data:
https://old.iopan.pl/praca/INFORMATION_ON_THE_PROCESSING_OF_PERSONAL_DATA.pdf

Data dodania ogłoszenia: 2026-02-12 13:47:00