Early Career Researchers Network
This network aims at bringing together mountain biodiversity professionals who are at an early stage of their career and are looking for a community of peers with whom to share ideas, expertise, questions, and opportunities.
We define early career professionals as anyone whose career has started within the last 10 years and who is connected to mountain biodiversity science. This includes researchers who have received their Bachelor's or Master's qualification within the last 10 years or their PhD within the last six years, as well as professionals working at the interface of society, policy, practice, and research in mountain biodiversity.
If you want to join the network, fill out the registration form!
If you are looking for a job openings or other relevant summer schools or events, check out our market place and list of opportunities!
Market place
| Title | Location | Application deadline | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Job announcements in ecology and evolution | Excel list | ||
| ESA Latin American and the Caribbean job board resource | Excel list | ||
| Graduate students and post-docs opportunities: mountain birds and climate change | Georgia Tech in Atlanta | Open | The Mountain Bird Lab |
| PhD position in remote sensing & EBV | University of Granada (Spain) | N/A | PhD_SmartEcomountains_eng.pdf |
| 8 Internship positions in biodiversity monitoring (Summer 2025) | Eurac research (Italy) | N/A | List of open positions |
| Post-doc in plant and pathogen diversity and interactions | Oregon State University (USA) | N/A | Job description |
| Intern for conservation biology | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Switzerland) | N/A | Job description |
| Post-doc in trees and stand growth research | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Switzerland) | N/A | Job description |
| PhD student in plant water relations | Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (Switzerland) | N/A | Job description |
| Post-doc in tectono-geomorphic processes and mountain biodiversity | Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Switzerland) | N/A | Job description |
| PhD position, social-ecological mountain science | Leuphana University, Lüneburg (Germany) | 07 March | Job description |
| Post-doc opportunities with ASCEND (several) | South Africa | 10 March | Job descriptions |
| Post-doc in nature-based solutions in mountain ecosystems | University of Innsbruck (Austria) | 15 March | Job description |
| PhD positionc, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services of Tropical Smallholder Agriculture | University of Hohenheim (Germany) | 23 March | Job description |
Other opportunities
| Title | Date and location | Deadline | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early Career Summit | 19 March, 2025, Drakensberg (South Africa) | Online information | |
| RaMP-UP Fellows Program | July 2025 - 2026, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (Panama) | 16 March 2025 | Online information |
| IPBES Fellowship Programme - second global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services | 28 March 2025 | Online information | |
| Summer School: Blue-green biodiversity. Research and practice at the interface of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems | 26 - 28 August, 2025, Davos (Switzerland) | 27 May 2025 | Online information |
| Student4Student Summerschool (#S4SSS) | 7-12 September, 2025, Obergurgl (Austria) | Online information | |
| Diplôme d'Université (DU) Botanique écologie alpine du Briançonnais | 30 June - 05 July 2025, Villar-d'Arène - Jardin du Lautaret (France) | Online information (French) | |
| Formation de botanique alpine | 07 - 10 July 2025, Villar-d'Arène - Jardin du Lautaret (France) | Online information (French) |
Grants & Prices
| Funding scheme | Deadline | Link |
|---|---|---|
| People's Trusted Fund for Endangered Species Internship Grants | N/A | Online information |
| World Academy of Sciences fellowships | N/A | Online information |
| Fonseca species conservation fund (Americas) | 15 April 2025 | Online information |