Postdoctoral Research Associate in Geochemistry, Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy

Full time: 35 hours per week

Fixed term: for 2 years

The Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Associate in the first Phanerozoic mass extinction

This post is full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to considering flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.  

We seek a 2-year (24 month) postdoctoral research associate to join the research team on the NERC Pushing the Frontiers project “Determining the nature and drivers of Earth’s first metazoan radiation and subsequent extinction: The Cambrian ‘Explosion’ and Sinsk Event”. The overall aim of the project is to understand the drivers and evolutionary consequences of the first mass extinction of the Phanerozoic, the enigmatic Cambrian Sinsk Event, 514 million years ago.

The work will require the creation and interrogation of an integrated age model, and stratigraphic dataset of sedimentology, redox and isotope geochemistry, and palaeobiology in order to resolve the causes and effects of the SINSK mass extinction, via a highly integrated, multi-disciplinary programme of novel analyses and modelling using new, global and regional, data. 

The salary for this post is £40,497 to £48,149 per annum.

Your skills and attributes for success: 

• Track record in Ediacaran-Cambrian research
• Knowledge of redox geochemistry and palaeobiology
• Independent, creative researcher

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