Postdoctoral position in agroecology for TRANSFORM Project

About the Position

The Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3) is offering a full-time postdoctoral research position to support activities within a Horizon Europe project. The project focuses on developing innovative crop rotations as a nature-based solution to help agriculture adapt to climate change (www.transform-rotations.eu). This research will be conducted within BC3’s research line 3 on Terrestrial Ecosystems, and in collaboration with research line 4 on Adaptation to Climate Change.

About the Project

The project aims to accelerate innovation in crop rotations as nature-based solutions that deliver multiple economic, social, and environmental benefits, thereby ensuring sustainable and resilient agricultural adaptation to climate change. Project partners work closely with stakeholders to design and understand adaptation needs. This includes formulating agricultural adaptation roadmaps, identifying farmers’ preferences for crop rotations, predicting the economic, social, and environmental benefits and costs, and evaluating these against regional roadmap objectives to select rotations that best meet societal needs and preferences. The project will provide tools and methods-such as workshop designs, serious games, agronomic and agroecological models under climate change scenarios, choice experiments, and mapping-to support regions and farmers in adapting to climate change.

Responsibilities

• Model crop rotations in space and time: development, running, interpretation, visualization, etc.
• Analyse and visualize data
• Contribute to research activities: Support various aspects of the project’s research endeavours.
• Write manuscripts and disseminate results.
• Help train and mentor other team members if necessary

Requirements

• Degree in Ecology, Theoretical Ecology, Physics or Mathematics
• Academic excellence in Theoretical Ecology, evidenced by previous works including PhD or postdoctoral research
• Excellent written and oral command of English is required
• Strong analytical skills, good knowledge of statistics, and programming experience.
• Ability to work collaboratively

IMPORTANT: Applications including links or references to previous works/projects/initiatives that show how the applicant meets these requirements will be given priority

We Offer

• Interdisciplinary and inspiring work environment.
• Quiet and spacious workspaces.
• Possibility of participating in internal training and activities of the centre.
• 35-hour work calendar.
• 30 days of vacation per year

Term of Contract

Starting in early 2026, the position will last for 2.5 years, with a six-month probation period based on performance

Salary

The position will carry competitive salary, matching the academic and professional profile of the applicant, and excellent work conditions.

Location

Basque Centre for Climate Change, Leioa, Spain.

As an HR Excellence awarded institution, BC3 is committed to conciliating research and academic requirements with care responsibilities. BC3 is particularly concerned with creating equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, cultural background, race, or any other condition. We strongly encourage applications from qualified candidates from underrepresented groups

Application Procedure

Fill the form below and upload one PDF document with the following information:

1. Letter of application/motivation
2. CV
3. The names and email addresses of two referees

Deadline

14th of December 2025.

Informal enquiries can be made to Prof Daniel Montoya ([email protected]) noting in the subject of the message “POSTDOCTORAL POSITION”.

Please consider that only applications sent through the form included at the bottom of the BC3 web page will be considered (https://info.bc3research.org/job-offers/).

Contract financed by HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-01, European Commission, GRANT reference 101155748