Within the FED-tWIN framework, UMons offers a 50 % appointment as a Post-doctoral researcher in combination with an appointment as a 50 % contractual researcher (work leader salary scale SW2) (indefinite duration) at the Royal Museum for Central Africa.
UMons is a research-intensive, internationally oriented university that carries out both fundamental and applied scientific research. She has a strong inter- and multidisciplinary focus and strives for international excellence. UMons actively cooperates with its research partners in Belgium and abroad. She offers her students an academic education based on high-quality scientific research.
The Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren is a multidisciplinary federal scientific institute and a world centre in research and knowledge dissemination on past and present societies and natural environments of Africa, and in particular Central Africa. Its core activities consist of acquiring and managing collections, conducting scientific research, disseminating knowledge and organising exhibitions.
In principle, the applicant is appointed as Postdoctoral Researcher for a period of 5 years; after this period and a positive evaluation, they are appointed 5 more years as postdoc.
Place of employment: UMons, Department of Biology, Laboratory of Zoology, Mons.
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, 3080 Tervuren.
The candidate will be required to work 50 % at each institute according to the regulations of each institute.