Postdoc: Stable-Isotope Nitrogen Ecology & Orbitrap

KNAW (Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen); Wageningen; On-site; EUR 41,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ABP pension

Vacation allowance

Travel allowance

Internet allowance

Home working allowance

Job summary

The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) at Wageningen invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher to advance 15N-based stable-isotope tracing and Orbitrap isotopologue analyses across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

The successful candidate will design experiments, develop workflows for isotope enrichment and nitrogen-flux analysis, and contribute to publications while training researchers in isotope methods.

Qualifications

• PhD in biogeochemistry, ecology, analytical chemistry or related field
• Hands-on experience with 15N stable-isotope tracer experiments
• Experience with experimental design and quantitative interpretation of isotope-labelled experiments
• Knowledge of nitrogen-cycle processes
• Experience with isotope enrichment calculations, isotope mass balance and/or nitrogen fluxes
• Strong quantitative and statistical skills
• Experience with computational analysis of isotope or mass-spectrometry datasets (R/Python)
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in interdisciplinary environment
• Excellent command of written and spoken English

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct 15N stable-isotope tracing experiments to quantify transformations and fate
• Develop and validate Orbitrap-based isotopologue/isotopomer approaches
• Establish workflows for isotope enrichment, natural-abundance correction, isotope mass balance and nitrogen-flux analysis
• Apply isotope approaches across plant, soil, microbial and aquatic systems
• Support ongoing isotope-based research projects at NIOO
• Develop standard protocols, quality-control procedures and reproducible data-analysis pipelines
• Train PhD candidates, postdocs, scientists and technicians in isotope methods and data analysis
• Contribute to publications, presentations and interdisciplinary collaborations

Skills

Stable-isotope tracing

Quantitative analysis

English proficiency

Independent work

Education

PhD in biogeochemistry / ecology / analytical chemistry

Tools

Orbitrap mass spectrometry

R

Python

Job description

The Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO) at Wageningen invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Researcher to advance 15N-based stable-isotope tracing and Orbitrap isotopologue analyses across terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.

The successful candidate will design experiments, develop workflows for isotope enrichment and nitrogen-flux analysis, and contribute to publications while training researchers in isotope methods.