Temporary position OT-27053
Engineer in forest sciences
38402 St Martin d'Hères
INRAE presentation
The French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and the Environment (INRAE) is a public research establishment gathering a community of 12,000 people with more than 270 units including fundamental and experimental research, spread out throughout 18 regional centres in France. Internationally, INRAE is among the top research organisations in agricultural and food sciences, plant and animal sciences, as well as in ecology and environmental science. It is the world’s leading research organisation specialising in agriculture, food and the environment. Faced with a growing world population, climate change, the depletion of resources and declining biodiversity, the Institute has a major role to play in providing the knowledge base supporting the necessary acceleration of agricultural, food and environmental transitions, to address the major global challenges
Work environment, missions and activities
You will be welcomed in the unit LESSEM (Mountain Ecosystem and Societies Lab.) in Saint-Martin d’Hères, France. In the team Dynamics, we conduct research on forest ecology, protection against natural hazards, silviculture, and forest dynamics modelling.
Your mission will be to participate as a Research Engineer in the project SimInForest “Combining field exercises and simulations on marteloscopes to develop integrative and sustainable silviculture approaches”. This project led by INRAE and EFI (European forest Institute) will test and develop an approach combining field exercises with simulations on 10 marteloscopes scattered over Europe. The objective is to co-construct and innovative training approach in collaboration with marteloscope instructors and identify promising silviculture approaches, especially in contexts of multifunctional, continuous cover forestry.
You will be more specifically in charge of:
- Supporting marteloscope trainers in using simulation tools
- Participating to the improvement of simulation tools
- Performing and analyzing silviculture simulations to evaluate silviculture approaches
- Participating to the evaluation of marteloscope training using social sciences methods
Special conditions of activity: Missions across Europe, field work, participation to marteloscope training exercise
Training and skills
Recommended training: Doctorate, master's degree or engineering degree in forestry or ecology»
Desired knowledge: silviculture, forest ecology, computer sciences, modelling, data management
Appreciated experience: research, forest management
Skills: English language, driving license
INRAE's life quality
By joining our teams, you benefit from (depending on the type of contract and its duration):
- up to 30 days of annual leave + 15 days "Reduction of Working Time" (for a full time);
- parenting support: CESU childcare, leisure services;
- skills development systems: training, career advise;
- social support: advice and listening, social assistance and loans;
- holiday and leisure services: holiday vouchers, accommodation at preferential rates;
- sports and cultural activities;
- collective catering.
How to apply
I send my CV and my motivation letter
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