Postdoctoral researcher in Evolutionary Demography

Postdoctoral researcher in Evolutionary Demography

The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a contract-based, fixed term postdoctoral researcher position at the Department of Biology from 1.3.2026 to . Employment starts on 1.3.2026 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 a...