Oferty pracy w projektach finansowanych przez NCN
Narodowe Centrum Nauki prezentuje bazę ogłoszeń o wolnych stanowiskach pracy przy projektach finansowanych przez Centrum. Narodowe Centrum Nauki nie ponosi odpowiedzialności za treść i wiarygodność przesyłanych ofert pracy.
Uprzejmie informujemy o nowych warunkach zatrudniania osób na stanowiska typu post-doc: limit czasu upływającego od uzyskania stopnia doktora dla aplikujących na te stanowiska kobiet może być przedłużony o 1,5 roku za każde urodzone bądź przysposobione dziecko.
Oferta pracy
Nazwa stanowiska: PhD
Wymagania:
Requirements:
• MSc degree in biology or related field,
• Basic experience in laboratory work,
• Basic experience in spatial analyses (GIS),
• Basic experience in analyses in R software,
• Team cooperation skills,
• Fluent spoken and written English,
• Driving license.
PhD student tasks and duties within the project:
• Collection of materials for the study stored in different zoological museums;
• Collection of scientific data for the study from the published sources;
• Extraction of collagen from bone fragments for radiocarbon dating and stable isotopic analyses in the laboratory of the Institute of Geological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw;
• Computer work (statistical and spatial analyses of the obtained results,
revision of the scientific literature, writing manuscripts, etc.);
• Presenting results and preparing drafts of scientific articles.
Termin składania ofert: 24 sierpnia 2026, 00:00
Forma składania ofert: email
Warunki zatrudnienia:
Conditions of employment:
PhD student scholarship of 4790.00 PLN/ month netto. This is the highest allowed salary for PhD in the NCN project. As living in Poland is cheaper that in Western Europe, this ensures quite satisfactory standard of living. Project will last 4 years.
The recruitment rules will follow NCN regulations. The selection will be based on the qualifications of the candidates including scientific achievements, experience, awards, internships, skills and competences. An interview will be part of the selection of candidates. Recruitment is a two-stage process and includes: 1) evaluation of candidates’ documentation and 2) an interview with selected candidates.
Successful candidates will need to recruit to BioPlanet Doctoral School, you will find all details on the web page: https://szkoladoktorska-bioplanet.pl/en/home/
If a candidate is already hired somewhere or involved in other projects and seeking for additional activity, our project will not be a good choice – we expect a candidate to be full-time involved in the PhD project in MRIPAS – combining the PhD with other form of employment is unrealistic.
Required documents:
1. Application for admission to the BIOPLANET Doctoral School along with consent for the personal data to be processed for the purpose of recruitment, and declaration of acceptance of the terms and conditions of admission (application form).
2. Certified copy of diploma or certificate of completion of studies. If the applicant does not have proof of the qualifications, s/he is obliged to provide them before the Doctoral School program begins (until 01.10.2025).
3. CV including education, employment and research experience with a list of publications and a short description of scientific achievements, particularly information on participation in scientific conferences, workshops, training and internships, participation in research projects, involvement in learned societies and students’ scientific associations, and awarded distinctions and scholarships.
4. Certificates or other documents confirming knowledge of English, if the applicant has them at his/her disposal.
5. An opinion on the applicant and their past scientific activity from an academic staff member or a university teacher with at least a doctoral degree. Instead of providing such a document, a person who is an academic staff member or a university teacher and holds at least a doctoral degree can be designated from whom the Recruitment Committee can obtain their opinion on the applicant independently.
6. Declaration of consent for processing of personal data, attached below (the signed page should be scanned and delivered through e-mail).
Project description
The goal of our project is to study the history and changing distribution of two roe deer species — European roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and Siberian roe deer (C. pygargus) — in Europe over the last 50,000 years. We aim to determine when these species started interbreeding, how their ranges shifted over time, and how they responded to climate change and human-induced landscape modifications. These two species differ in morphology, behaviour, genetics, and habitat preferences, which makes them an interesting subject for studying their ecological and evolutionary history. Our main research question focuses on how the ranges of these two species shifted in response to climate changes, particularly during the last glacial period and after it. We hypothesise that both C. capreolus and C. pygargus experienced dynamic range shifts, adapting to climatic changes and landscape transformations, such as the expansion of agricultural land. Furthermore, our research aims to determine when the ranges of these two species overlapped and how extensively interbreeding occurred, especially before and after the Last Glacial Maximum. Although the European roe deer is a common species in Europe, its ecological and demographic history is still largely unknown. Furthermore, historical data on the distribution changes of roe deer over thousands of years are difficult to establish, as distinguishing between the two species based solely on morphological features has often been challenging. In our study we will use modern genetic methods to more accurately assign subfossil remains to the one of species and to detect their potential hybrids. These techniques will allow us to better track changes in the distribution of these animals and investigate how environmental changes, such as climate warming during the Holocene or the development of agriculture, influenced their ranges.
Methods
Our project brings together expertise from various fields, including genetics, palaeontology, and biogeography. We will analyse genetic material from both contemporary and subfossil roe deer samples using advanced DNA sequencing methods. Additionally, by analysing carbon and nitrogen isotopes in bones, we will assess ecological differences between the two species and their feeding habitats. Radiocarbon dating will also be used to determine the chronological and geographical shifts in their distribution.