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Vacancy: 2 postdocs to the Anthropocene Laboratory
The Anthropocene Laboratory is a new programme at the Academy, that started in 2023. The aim is to develop scientific understanding and synthesis of the Anthropocene biosphere, by working across the sciences and the humanities, engage with actors outside of academia to stimulate change, and help foster a new generation of transdisciplinary sustainability scientists. The laboratory is hiring multiple staff to achieve these functions. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, the laboratory will consist of researchers and facilitators, with a director reporting to the Secretary General of the Academy, guided by a Scientific Committee.




The laboratory intends to build and recruit a dynamic, diverse and collaborative team with an ability to work across scientific disciplines and between science and practice. One of its main functions will be to bring together international scholars that combine disciplinary perspectives and diverse skills, tools, and competencies for a more holistic understanding of the Anthropocene biosphere, our home on planet Earth, thereby exploring challenges and opportunities of advancing science for sustainability in an era of increased interconnectivity, social-ecological turbulence, and inequalities.
The laboratory will work closely with several Stockholm-based organizations engaged in sustainability, including the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Academy Program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
We are looking for colleagues with an international and interdisciplinary interest, with documented experience in understanding and relating to the Anthropocene biosphere, and with a willingness to explore emergence in new scientific constellations. The laboratory strives to experiment, with the hope to discover new systemic interactions.
We are committed to diversity, equity, and representation – not because it looks good on paper but because it is essential for an ability to comprehend and engage with the Anthropocene.
We are recruiting a core team to develop the first phase of the laboratory (2023–2025). The laboratory’s working language is English, with all additional languages regarded as assets.
Post doc 1 and 2 – Full time position for two years
The positions
Post docs are the main scientific engines of the Anthropocene Laboratory. You will work closely with the Director, the Chair of the Scientific Committee, as well as advisors and mentors. Your main tasks will be to lead academic papers, based on ideas developed collaboratively in international workshops that you help organise. You will be offered an opportunity to co-design a range of activities (scientific synthesis, multi-stakeholder experiments, teaching, training, and public engagement with diverse stakeholders) supported by international, leading expertise from the natural and social sciences, and the humanities.
You have likely recently finished your academic degree in a sustainability-related field and are now interested in exploring the complexities of the Anthropocene biosphere. This post doc will accelerate your scientific career and will help you build capacities, knowledge and networks for a future with a leading academic institution, or elsewhere. We are specifically looking for post docs with an interest in one of two major topics:
“The intertwined biosphere” – you will help develop an understanding of the many ways that people are part of, are shaped by, and shape the biosphere, the thin layer of life of which humans are part. You will primarily work with data and colleagues from the natural and social science to develop a comprehensive synthesis of the interconnected conditions for humanity and life on Earth.
“The empirics of hope” – you will help develop an understanding of the ways that society has changed since the “Great acceleration” and explore human and social progress and innovation – across regions and systems. You will primarily work with data and colleagues from the social sciences and humanities to develop a comprehensive synthesis of positive change towards a sustainable future.

Your qualifications
You have a PhD and you are highly motivated. In your application, please specify which topic is of key interest, what ideas you would be especially keen to explore, and what skills and experience you can leverage towards it. Provide a description of why you consider yourself suitable for this position. We are interested to learn more about how you work in teams and your ability to work independently. Please provide examples of how you express curiosity and your capacity to innovate, while striving towards set goals.
In addition, please provide examples of the following expectations for this position: You communicate clearly and effectively – in writing and verbally. You have a demonstrated ability to work across academic disciplines and to facilitate dialogues and learning across knowledge systems. You enjoy data analysis as well as reading and writing scientific papers. You know what it takes to publish in leading scientific journals. Post docs will be evaluated after year 1 in relation to documented ability to lead scientific processes, effectively work in teams and willingness to cross scientific boundaries. Risk taking will be more essential than achieving traditional academic results, but the ability to advance scientific findings and insights into publications is key. Please let us know if you have specific connections to a discipline, method, place, region, institution, language, plant, animal, or system.
Application
We look forward to your application! In your application, please make sure to clearly specify which of the positions you are applying for.
Please submit your cover letter, CV and a maximum of two letters of recommendations to henrik.osterblom@kva.se.
Deadline for application: March 31, 2023
Intended starting date: May 1, 2023 (flexible)
Contact
Please contact Prof. Henrik Österblom henrik.osterblom@kva.se (Director of the Anthropocene Laboratory) or Prof. Carl Folke carl.folke@beijer.kva.se (Chair of the Scientific Committee) for further questions. Visa mindre

Vacancy: Activities coordinator to the Anthropocene Laboratory
The Anthropocene Laboratory is a new programme at the Academy, that started in 2023. The aim is to develop scientific understanding and synthesis of the Anthropocene biosphere, by working across the sciences and the humanities, engage with actors outside of academia to stimulate change, and help foster a new generation of transdisciplinary sustainability scientists. The laboratory is hiring multiple staff to achieve these functions. Located in Stockholm, Sweden, the laboratory will consist of researchers and facilitators, with a director reporting to the Secretary General of the Academy, guided by a Scientific Committee.




The laboratory intends to build and recruit a dynamic, diverse and collaborative team with an ability to work across scientific disciplines and between science and practice. One of its main functions will be to bring together international scholars that combine disciplinary perspectives and diverse skills, tools, and competencies for a more holistic understanding of the Anthropocene biosphere, our home on planet Earth, thereby exploring challenges and opportunities of advancing science for sustainability in an era of increased interconnectivity, social-ecological turbulence, and inequalities.
The laboratory will work closely with several Stockholm-based organizations engaged in sustainability, including the Stockholm Resilience Centre at Stockholm University, the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics and the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Academy Program at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
We are looking for colleagues with an international and interdisciplinary interest, with documented experience in understanding and relating to the Anthropocene biosphere, and with a willingness to explore emergence in new scientific constellations. The laboratory strives to experiment, with the hope to discover new systemic interactions.
We are committed to diversity, equity, and representation – not because it looks good on paper but because it is essential for an ability to comprehend and engage with the Anthropocene.
We are recruiting a core team to develop the first phase of the laboratory (2023–2025). The laboratory’s working language is English, with all additional languages regarded as assets.
Activities coordinator – Full time position
The position
The Activities coordinator makes sure it all works in practice. You will work closely with a number of staff at the Laboratory: The Chair of the Scientific Committee and the director, to provide support with multiple functions including project management, budget, monitoring, external and internal communication, meeting facilitation, and executive assistance. You will work closely with two post docs and other staff to support them with communication and impact strategies, and you will also support the design, organisation and facilitation of scientific and other meetings. You will engage with the administrative staff of the Academy on multiple practical topics in relation to human resource management and communication, including management of web-pages and social media. The position has a six months trial period.
This job is far and beyond that of an executive assistant, since it also strives to develop you as a core team member, working with and supporting multiple functions required for the laboratory to reach its goal.
Your qualifications
You have an interest in the global sustainability challenges and a demonstrated ability to manage complex projects and activities. You are highly efficient and organized in addition to being and effective communicator. You have probably worked as a meeting co-ordinator and/or facilitator, communications manager or executive assistant, in a sustainability-related academic institution, in the private sector, a civil society organisation, or similar. You are interested in science, but do not necessarily have an ambition to become a scientist.
In your application, please describe your interest and abilities to fulfill duties commensurate with the role.
Application
We look forward to your application! In your application, please make sure to clearly specify which of the positions you are applying for.
Please submit your cover letter, CV and a maximum of two letters of recommendations to henrik.osterblom@kva.se.
Deadline for application: March 31, 2023
Intended starting date: May 1, 2023 (flexible)
Contact
Please contact Prof. Henrik Österblom henrik.osterblom@kva.se (Director of the Anthropocene Laboratory) or Prof. Carl Folke carl.folke@beijer.kva.se (Chair of the Scientific Committee) for further questions.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739 and is an independent organisation, whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Academy promotes science of the highest quality by fostering development and innovation in Swedish research. It enhances the status of science in society by drawing attention to key social issues and examining them in scientific terms, and joins in cooperation on global issues, with an aim of being an international scientific proponent of sustainable development. Visa mindre

Professor Bergianus is one of the oldest endowed chairs in Sweden, originating from a donation by Peter Jonas Bergius formulated in 1784. The donation led to the formation of the Bergius Foundation, administered by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. We are now seeking a new holder of this prestigious professorship.


The position as Professor Bergianus is broadly defined as in botany. This may include, but is not limited to, research directions in systematics, biogeography, ecology, evolution, population genetics, and paleobotany. The successful candidate should have a very strong research profile within the field of botany, defined as above.
Professor Bergianus is employed by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is a tenured, full-time position fully financed by the Bergius Foundation, which also provides a competitive start-up package and a yearly running budget for the professor. The position is placed at, and the professor affiliated with, the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University. Work duties are primarily research (including supervision) in botany, and may also include teaching, administration and leadership. Laboratory space and access to core facilities as well as additional start-up funds will be provided by Stockholm University.
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is an independent, nongovernmental organisation with the overall objective to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Bergius Foundation employs about 20 people and runs the Edvard Anderson Conservatory, opened in 1995 and specialising in plants from Mediterranean-type climates. In parallel, Stockholm University is actively involved in managing the Bergius Botanic Garden, www.bergianska.se
The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University is an international environment for research and education. The subject areas are Ecology and Evolution, Ecotoxicology, Marine Biology, Plant Physiology and Plant Systematics. The Department offers a broad and interdisciplinary research environment of high international visibility. Some of the research has direct environmental and societal relevance. About 130 people are working at the Department, of which 30 are teachers and researchers, and 50 are PhD students.
The chair was originally associated with directorship of the Bergius Botanic Garden, but is now primarily a research professorship. However, depending on the interests and research profile of the successful applicant, directorship of, or other opportunities to contribute to the development of the Bergius Botanic Garden, can be explored.
Requirements
Scientific proficiency and international standing are the main assessment criteria for evaluating candidates for the position. In the appointment process, special attention will be given to research skills in botany. Attention will also be given to teaching skills, administrative skills, the ability to develop and lead research activities and staff, and the ability to collaborate with the community and convey information about research and development. In filling the position, the Academy aims to appoint the applicant who, following a qualitative holistic assessment of her/his competence and expertise, is judged to have the best potential to carry out and develop the relevant duties.
Application
Applications must be submitted as one pdf-file to bergianus@kva.se and should include a Curriculum Vitae and list of publications, a description of teaching and supervision experience (max 2 pages), past research achievements (max 3 pages), and future research plans (max 3 pages). Also provide a description of experiences in communicating science, and a summary of leadership and administrative experiences (max 2 pages). Please arrange having up to three reference letters, which will be handled confidentially, sent to the Academy at bergianus@kva.se, clearly marked in the subject line as ‘Reference to NN’.
Deadline for submission of applications is 2021-06-21
Contacts
Enquiries should be addressed to Professor Hans Ellegren, hans.ellegren@ebc.uu.se (Chairman of the recruitment committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences), or to Professor Ove Eriksson, ove.eriksson@su.se (Head of the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences at Stockholm University).
Union representative at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences is Sila Özgüven (SACO), sila@kva.se, +46 70 928 45 96.


The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, founded in 1739, is an independent organisation whose overall objective is to promote the sciences and strengthen their influence in society. The Academy takes special responsibility for the natural sciences and mathematics, but endeavours to promote the exchange of ideas between various disciplines. Visa mindre

Vacancies: Research assistants at Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme
The Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere Programme (GEDB) is hiring research assistants with a Bachelor’s, or Master’s Degree to help us advance a range of new research initiatives.
The Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere is a research programme at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It addresses the economic dynamics of global change and its implications for a sustainable future, and is funded by the Erling-Persson Family Foundation.
More information about the programme
Tasks and Qualifications
We are currently looking for several research assistants with a Bachelor’s, or Master’s Degree to help us advance a range of new research initiatives. The work will be distributed across the various research activities of GEDB, focusing on finance and global health in the context of global environmental change. Therefore applicants should be prepared to combine multiple tasks of possibly varying nature. We are looking for candidates with strong analytical skills (primarily quantitative, including R programming or similar). Documented experiences in finance, global health, or epidemiology will be particularly valued, but are not essential.
The assistants will work closely with our team of interdisciplinary researchers to compile literature (scientific and “grey” literature), identify, amass, and analyse relevant data and summarise important work related to the specific topic in focus. The assistants may also be required to help organise, and participate in, international workshops. Assistants can expect to often be part of the full research process, and as such the RA positions within GEDB should be seen as an excellent opportunity to gather research experience for candidates interested in an academic future.


Duration
100% for 12 months (with possible/likely extension), starting from as soon as possible (start date is negotiable)
Salary
According to agreement.
Application
Last application date is 2022-09-02, but send your application as soon as possible as we will be conducting interviews on a regular basis.
Applications should include:
CV
List of relevant publications (if you have) – do not send full papers as they will not be considered in the initial stage
A description of your skills and experience as they relate to those called for in the job description
Contact details to at least two references

Please note: Send your application as one file (pdf). Do not send any other documents as they will not be considered at the initial stage.
Applications should be e-mailed to Sofia Kokinelis, at the Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. sofia.kokinelis@beijer.kva.se Visa mindre