What is the role of dairy farms on nitrogen deposition on nature areas? Mesdagfonds, the interest group of the Dutch dairy farmers, requested the University of Amsterdam to measure and model N deposition around dairy farms and in nature reserves. For this research project we are seeking a researcher who wants to contribute to the topic of nitrogen deposition that currently sets the Netherlands on hold.

What are you going to do?

In this position, the emphasis is on field sampling and chemical analysis of soil, water and plant samples. Analytical techniques such as nutrient (Segmented-Flow Analyzer), elemental (EA, TOC, ICP) as well as isotope analysis (IRMS) play a central role. You will support the principle researcher for this project and you will work closely together with the lab team and share responsibility for the management and safety of laboratories and maintenance of laboratory equipment and facilities.

• An education at BSc level in chemical or environmental sciences or a related field;;
• prepared to take on analytical and instrumental challenges and striving for accurate data;
• experience with troubleshooting, repair and general maintenance of analytical equipment;
• curious and committed attitude with genuine interest in research and willingness to learn more about the scientific background of the experiments conducted in the laboratory;
• a driver’s license;
• enthusiasm for fieldwork;
• ability to speak Dutch;
• availability of this job on short notice (preferably 1 January 2020).

Experience with nutrient analysis (Segmented-Flow Analyzer), TOC, ICP, AAS, EA and IRMS is considered as an advantage.

An employment contract for 1 year for 28 hours a week, preferably starting on 1 January 2020. An extension for 2 years subsequently follows if we assess your performance positive. The Job profile Education/Research Officer 4 is applicable. The salary, depending on relevant experience before the beginning of the employment contract, will be €2,261 to €3,052 (scale 7) gross per month, based on fulltime (38 hours a week), exclusive 8 % holiday allowance and 8,3 % end-of-year bonus. A favorable tax agreement, the ‘30% ruling’, may apply to non-Dutch applicants.  The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable. 

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University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.

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Informatics Institute

The Faculty of Science has a student body of around 6,500, as well as 1,600 members of staff working in education, research or support services. Researchers and students at the Faculty of Science are fascinated by every aspect of how the world works, be it elementary particles, the birth of the universe or the functioning of the brain.

The research will be carried out within the Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED). This is one of eight research institutes of the Faculty of Science at the University of Amsterdam. The research at IBED aims to unravel how ecosystems function in all their complexity, and how they change due to natural processes and human activities. At its core lies an integrated systems approach to study biodiversity, ecosystems and the environment. IBED adopts this systems approach to ecosystems, addressing abiotic (soil and water quality) and biotic factors (ecology and evolution of plants, animals, and microorganisms), and the interplay between those. The IBED vision includes research encompassing experimental and theoretical approaches at a wide variety of temporal and spatial scales, i.e. from molecules and microorganisms to patterns and processes occurring at the global scale.