DeepBio@Leeds

I’m delighted to announce that I’ve been awarded 2x UKRI NERC research grants in the past 2 months…

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First, a 3 year NERC/NSF Pushing the Frontiers grant, Community and Structural Collapse During Mass Extinctions (CASCaDE), worth ~£1 million. This grant is awarded in collaboration with a team of palaeobiologists and ecologists at the University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, Yale University, Santa Fe Institute, University of Zurich and UC Riverside and aims to investigate community dynamics across mass extinction events in the distant past to better understand how biotic interactions shape marine ecosystem resilience to secondary cascades and collapse.

As part of this project, we will be looking to hire 2x postdoctoral research fellows; a palaeobiologist at Leeds with me and an ecological modeller at Sheffield with Andrew Beckerman. Get in touch with us if you’re interested in either for a summer ’23 start (a.dunhill@leeds.ac.uk or a.beckerman@sheffield.ac.uk).

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Second, an 8 month NERC Exploring the Frontiers grant, Ecosystem Recovery Following the Permo-Triassic Mass Extinction, worth ~£100K. This grant is awarded in collaboration with a team of palaeobiologists and ecologists at the University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, Santa Fe Institute, and China University of Geoscience (Wuhan) and aims to investigate the timing and nature of the ecological recovery from the largest mass extinction in Earth history, the Permo-Triassic mass extinction.

As part of this project, we will be looking to hire a research assistant with experience in palaeobiology to be based at Leeds with me. Get in touch with me if you’re interested for a summer ’23 start (a.dunhill@leeds.ac.uk).