Research Assistants/Project Researchers

Overview

The Eskelinen research team is looking for two or three motivated, enthusiastic and independent Research Assistants/Project Researchers to work in our Global change and biotic interactions group with plant communities. You will mainly conduct field work in a grassland metacommunity system in the archipelago of southern Finland, Åland Islands, and/or in tundra grasslands in Kilpisjärvi (northern Scandinavia). In our Research Council of Finland funded project in Åland, we examine how global changes affect plant biodiversity, functional traits and ecosystem functioning in a natural plant metacommunity system with varying grazing, habitat size and connectivity. In Kilpisjärvi, we examine how reindeer grazing interacts with climate warming and nutrient enrichment to affect plant biodiversity, inter- and intraspecific traits and various ecosystem functions.

You can be a bachelor’s/master’s level student or already advanced in your career; we will shape the posi...