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PDR- RADIANT project, Ryan Institute, (University of Galway :

Employer
University of Galway (NUI Galway)
Location
Galway (County), Connacht (IE)
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
27 Mar 2024
Discipline

Engineering
Job Type
Postdoctoral
Employment - Hours
Full time
Duration
Fixed term
Qualification
PhD
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Job Details:

This position is funded through an EU Horizon 2020 Research Project (RADIANT), and is available from 01/04/2024 to project end date 31/08/2025.

The overall aim of WP4 (led by David Styles) is to supplement relative environmental efficiency metrics based on life cycle assessment (LCA) with simple metrics capturing broader sustainability and resilience attributes, based on ecosystem services and economic assessment.

Emphasis is placed on capturing aspects necessary to tackle common weakness in industrialised agri-food value chains, such as soil degradation, lack of agri-biodiversity, low levels of multifunctionality and unbalanced distribution of revenue.

Duties:

Undertake life cycle assessment (LCA) of cropping systems and value chains
Integrate LCA with ecosystem services and economic metrics from project partners
Participate in project workshops and meetings
Write reports and scientific articles
Any other duties assigned commensurate to this level of post

Qualifications/Skills required:

Essential Requirements:

PhD in a relevant science, engineering or economics discipline
Excellent knowledge of cropping systems
Demonstrated ability to publish scientific papers

Desirable Requirements:

Experience with ecosystem services assessment
Knowledge of resilience assessment
Knowledge of underutilized crops
Project management experience

Research Salary Scales - University of Galway).

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Continuing Professional Development/Training:

Researchers at University of Galway are encouraged to avail of a range of training and development opportunities designed to support their personal career development plans.

University of Galway provides continuing professional development supports for all researchers seeking to build their own career pathways either within or beyond academia.

Researchers are encouraged to engage with our Researcher Development Centre (RDC) upon commencing employment - see HERE for further information.

Further information on research and working at University of Galway is available on Research at University of Galway

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NUI Galway is recognized as a research-led University that addresses issues of global economic and societal importance. Our research strategy focuses on developing clusters of internationally recognised expertise in selected priority areas.

We have developed meaningful and strategic research alliances with economic, social and cultural partners in areas of regional and national importance.

This strategy has resulted in the creation of research clusters in themes that are academically challenging, economically viable and regionally and nationally relevant.

We continue to develop our research priorities within the national and international context in addition to supporting emerging and cross cutting priority area development.

Our priority research areas build upon our key strengths and include:

Biomedical Science and Engineering
Informatics, Data Analytics, Physical and Computational Sciences
Environment, Marine and Energy
Applied Social Sciences and Public Policy
Humanities in Context including Digital Humanities

These priority areas seek to address the challenges and needs of society. Our research leads to life changing discoveries and polices that shape the future both nationally and internationally.

Our vibrant and dynamic community attracts researcher leaders, academics, entrepreneurs and students of the highest calibre who thrive in our research focused environment.

This is embodied though our research commitment, which seeks to:

Contribute to Knowledge
Create partnerships with Industry
Educate Future Leaders
Shape the Direction of Public Policy
Enable Regional and Cultural Advancement

Biomedical Science and Engineering
Developing innovative research programmes that promote the understanding and treatment of today's major diseases.

The core objective of this priority is to serve the needs of patients through research, to provide a real and measurable return on investment, to enhance regional and national enterprise development and to contribute to society through education and scientific outreach.

Researchers focus on some of the major medical challenges that face the world today including cardiovascular disease, cancer, orthopaedic disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.

**Informatics, Data