[TABD] oportunidades de trabajo en mariposas

[Blanca Huertas]

Amigos de la red, 
 
He recibido esta oportunidad -abajo- y la envio para quienes de ustedes pueda interesar. 
 
Por favor contestar a la persona del mensaje, no a este email, gracias.
 
Aprovecho la oportunidad para enviarles un grato saludo en estas festividades y desearles a todos ustedes lo mejor en el 2009! 
 
Feliz Navidad y Prospero 2009.! 
 
Blanca
 

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Blanca Huertas MSc DIC

Curator (Lepidoptera)

Entomology Department

 

The Natural History Museum

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SW18 4NX, London, UK.

 

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Job offer for a postdoc at the Universite 
catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium:

"Behavioural ecology of butterfly movements: a matter of perception?"

We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who 
could join us for a period of 12 months starting 
in Jan-Mar 2009 (exact starting date is 
negotiable). We aim to develop new and 
stimulating behavioural research on the 
significance of perceptual range within a context 
of insect dispersal in fragmented landscapes. 
Butterflies are used as model system for a series 
of experiments in the lab and in the field. 
Earlier work on speckled woods (Pararge aegeria 
L.) has suggested intriguing differences in the 
response distance to target habitat in 
individuals from continuous forest and 
individuals from fragmented agricultural 
landscape (Merckx & Van Dyck 2007. Anim. Behav. 
74: 1029-1037). We want to better understand the 
nature of environmental cues butterflies respond 
to during traveling across the landscape matrix. 
Therefore we want to develop a challenging 
evolutionary ecological research program with a 
strong emphasis on perceptual differences 
relative to landscape type. We will also explore 
some eco-physiological aspects. Another postdoc 
will also join our team to work in this field, so 
it will be a collaborative project. There will be 
frequent interactions with the lab-members of 
other lines of research. You will earn a postdoc 
grant from our University (UCL).

Candidates should have excellent CV (i.e., 
several publications in outstanding behavioural, 
ecological, conservation or evolutionary 
journals, experience with observational and 
experimental behavioural research). Only 
researchers who have been outside Belgium for at 
least the last two years can apply for this position.

You will work within a cluster of two young 
research teams at the Biodiversity Research 
Centre of the Université catholique de Louvain 
(UCL) in Belgium. The Behavioural Ecology and 
Conservation Group headed by Hans Van Dyck 
(www.ecol.ucl.ac.be/ecco/en) and the Quantitative 
Conservation Biology Group headed by Nicolas 
Schtickzelle (www.uclouvain.be/quant-cons-biol). 
Van Dyck's lab addresses several issues within 
the broad field of evolution in anthropogenic 
landscapes (combining behavioural ecology, life 
history biology, thermal ecology, landscape 
ecology and conservation). Schtickzelle's lab 
addresses conservation issues using quantitative 
approaches like population viability analysis. 
Both labs have a common and complementary 
interest in the process of dispersal and in 
resource-based habitat approaches. Our university 
is in the French-speaking part of Belgium 
(Louvain-la-Neuve, close to Brussels). Lab 
meetings and other scientific meetings are in 
English, some knowledge of French would be easy.

If you are interested, please send an e-mail 
message in which you explain why you would like 
to join us and attach your CV (including a full 
publication list and a reference person) as a separate document.

Please submit your file no later than December, 25th 2008.

Prof. Hans Van Dyck, Behavioural Ecology & 
Conservation Group (hans.vandyck at uclouvain.be)
Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle, Quantitative 
Conservation Biology Group (nicolas.schtickzelle at uclouvain.be)

Prof. Nicolas Schtickzelle
Research Associate (FNRS) & Lecturer

Quantitative Conservation Biology
Biodiversity Research Centre
Universite catholique de Louvain
Croix du Sud 4
B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
Belgium

phone :  +32 10 47 20 52 
fax : +32 10 47 34 90
office: building Carnoy, room C.157

nicolas.schtickzelle at uclouvain.be
http://www.uclouvain.be/quant-cons-biol

nicolas.schtickzelle at uclouvain.be 


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