Jobs and Appointments

for evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, systematists, ecologists, curators, museum and collection managers, coordinators and organismic researchers.

Contact to the editorial office: stellen @ gfbs-home.de

PhD position (m/f/d) 

Animal ecology (project: DFG-funded Research Unit BETA-FOR)

University of Würzburg, Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, and Bremen University, Animal Ecology Group, Würzburg and Bremen, Germany 

Start: 1 September 2026

Deadline: 21 June 2026

Details (pdf) 

PhD position (m/f/d) 

Sperm uptake and release in male spiders: a functional, biomechanic and neurobiological perspective

University of Greifswald, Zoological Institute and Museum, Greifswald, Germany

Start: 1 September 2026 (ideally)

Deadline: 15 June 2026

Details (pdf)

PostDoc research position (m/w/d)

EU-funded project "Biodiversity Meets Data" to provide a toolbox equipped with a suite of Virtual Research Environments

Senckenberg Society for Nature Research (SGN), Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Gelnhausen, Germany

Start: as soon as possible

Deadline: 31 May 2026

Details (pdf)

PostDoc research position (m/w/d)

EU Horizon Europe project BEAGLE (Biodiversity methods for advanced monitoring at large scales)

Senckenberg Society for Nature Research (SGN), Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Gelnhausen, Germany

Start: 1 October 2026

Deadline: 31 May 2026

Details (pdf)

PostDoc research position (m/w/d)

Data - Synthesis Center on Freshwater Biodiversity Change in Europe

Senckenberg Society for Nature Research (SGN), Department of River Ecology and Conservation, Gelnhausen, Germany

Start: as soon as possible

Deadline: 31 May 2026

Details (pdf)