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Location : FRB, 195 rue saint Jacques, Paris, France
Contract type : Fixed term, full time, 24 months
Salary : starting from 2620€ gross salary per month
Perks : tickets restaurant, partial coverage of complementary medical insurance, partial coverage of work-home public transportation, working remotely up to 3 days/week
Application deadline : 13 December 2024
Start date : January 2025

• ADEME Program Prospective 2027
   
   
  The FRB will be driving the “Biodiversity” sector in the long-term prospective exercise of the ADEME, the French Agency for Ecological Transition. This prospective involves the main sectors of the French economy – agriculture, industry, construction, infrastructures… – and asks them to project themselves into several energy- and climate-based scenarios. The anthropic pressures corresponding to these projections in each scenario are diverse and they have different implications on biodiversity. The main goal of the project is to describe both qualitatively and quantitatively the biodiversity paths along these scenarios in terms of the corresponding anthropic pressures. The inverse problem: to impose biodiversity targets and infer a set of admissible anthropic pressures for each sector is also central to the project.
  

• Main Missions
   
  The successful candidate will join the FRB team. They will work within the “Science et communautés de recherche” group. Reporting functionally to the head of the FRB, they will work closely with the leader of the “Prospective 2027” program. The first objective of the mission is to assess, analyze and emulate several models relating pressures to various biodiversity integrity indicators; then, to choose and apply the most relevant model(s) along the paths corresponding to the ADEME scenarios.
  

• Requirements :

 
The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of modelling and simulation applied to ecology and ecosystems.
 
Essential skills :

• Good knowledge of ecosystem modelling
• In-depth, hands-on knowledge of one or several model relating pressures and biodiversity
• Data mining and visualisation skills
• Programming skills (R, Python)
• Knowledge of geographic information systems and spatial analysis
• Fluent in french,
• Good writing skills, good communication skills
• Autonomous, rigorous, self-organized
• Adaptable, open-minded and dynamic in a multi-person team with different background

 
Preferred : 

• Knowledge of lettered programming (R Markdown / Quarto).
• Programming tool (R packages, R Shiny apps).

Application instructions :
 
Applications should be sent before 13 December 2024 to frederic.abergel@fondationbiodiversite.fr and must include

• A resume
• A cover letter
• One or more recommendation letters

 
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