Postdoctoral researcher studying human mobility and infectious disease spread

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for contract-based, fixed term postdoctoral researcher position at the Department of Biology from 1.1.2027 to 31.12.2028. Employment starts on 1.1.2027 or as agreed. The position is part of the Human Diversity Centre of Excellence research consortium , funded by the Research Council of Finland. We combine world-leading research in Evolutionary Language Sciences, Archaeogenomics, Evolutionary Demography and Digital Linguistics / Natural Language Processing to reveal how contacts have shaped human diversity, and how they will continue to shape future generations. The central questions of the consortium include how human contacts, past environments and communication networks influence material and immaterial culture, genes, disease burden, evolutionary fitness of people, and languages and their use. Human Diversity brings together research teams across different faculties who study these themes from complementary perspectives, construct diverse digital datasets and develop technologies for documenting and analyzing such data. Such unique collaboration and data infrastructure enable a holistic understanding of how past human and cultural diversity have evolved, transformed, and created the diversity we see now, and how ongoing migrations and communication networks are likely to affect them both in the physical and di