[TABD] Job advertisement in Lepidoptera

[Blanca Huertas]

Apologies for the short notice...

 

Job advertisement: 

 

Trainee position (Volont?rstelle) at the Museum of Zoology Dresden
(Museum f?r Tierkunde Dresden, MTD), Germany

 

 At the Museum of Zoology of the State Natural History Collections
Dresden the position of a trainee (Volont?r) is to be filled by February
1st, 2008, in the Entomology department, section Lepidoptera. The
position is limited to 2 years. 

 

 Applicants must have a master's/diploma or Ph.D. degree in biology as
well as expertise in systematic entomology, preferably documented by own
publications. Candidates with a substantial publication record on the
systematics and phylogeny of Lepidoptera are preferred, but other
entomologists are considered as well.

 

 The position will include the following approximate division of tasks:
60% scientific research, 30% curatorial work in the Lepidoptera
collection, and 10% various other tasks.

 

Curatorial work will mainly include the rearrangement and computer-based
inventory of the MTD holdings in Lepidoptera according to modern
standards.

 

Research should be focused on lepidopteran (preferably Pyraloidea)
systematics. This should preferably include a phylogenetic aspect based
on refined morphological and/or molecular work. It is possible to
complete a Ph.D. degree in the frame of the trainee position (but there
must be an external supervisor).

 

 Application documents must include a CV, a publication record (with
statement of applicant?s contribution for each co-authored paper), a
list of talks presented at meetings or elsewhere, a summary of own
previous research and outlook to future plans (3 pages maximum), a
summary of own experience in collection work (if applicable; 1 page
maximum), copies of Master?s/Diploma or Ph.D. certificate, and selected
reprints of publications (up to 5; potentially including co-authored
publications and manuscripts close to submission.

 

 Women and handicapped candidates are preferred provided they fulfil the
profile of the position as outlined above and their scientific merits
and experience can compete with otherwise leading applicants.

 

 

Applications (in English or German) should be sent to 

 

 

Staatliche Naturhistorische Sammlungen Dresden 

 

Museum f?r Tierkunde 

 

Direktion, Kennwort "Lepidoptera" 

 

K?nigsbr?cker Landstrasse 159 

 

D-01109 Dresden 

 

Germany 

 

 

 

and must reach the Museum of Zoology Dresden before January 15, 2008;
receipt will be confirmed by e-mail. Please contact
matthias.nuss at snsd.smwk.sachsen.de in case you have questions about this
advertisement.

 

 

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Blanca Huertas MSc DIC

Curator (Lepidoptera)

Entomology Department

 

The Natural History Museum

75 Kimber Road, Wandsworth

SW18 4NX, London, UK.

Tel.  +44 (0) 20 7942 6215

Fax. +44 (0) 20 8871 4940

 

Museum Website www.nhm.ac.uk

TABDProject www.andeanbutterflies.org

 

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