Fapesp offers postdoctoral scholarship in agronomy at Unicamp

The Thematic Project “Monitoring integrated crop-livestock systems through remote sensing and precision agriculture for more sustainable production - towards low-carbon agriculture” offers a FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship. Registration until March 16, 2020.

The postdoctoral fellow will have the supervision of Rubens Lamparelli, Santiago Vianna Cuadra and Gleyce Figueiredo at the Interdisciplinary Center for Energy Planning (Nipe) at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).

The objective of the thematic is to support the Brazilian low-carbon agriculture program related to sustainability from the point of view of water use efficiency, productivity and soil quality, exploring the capabilities of remote sensing data and precision analysis of agriculture .

The candidate must have a doctorate in Earth system science, ecophysiology, agronomy or related disciplines. Required are: previous experience in modeling based on soil biogeochemical processes and crop growth models (confirmed by publications in the area); and knowledge and work experience in Fortran, C++, and R code languages.

Knowledge of the GitHub platform and experience with analyzing remotely sensed data is desirable.

To register, you must send (in PDF format) a letter of interest, CV and two letters of recommendation to the professor's email Paulo Graziano (graziano@unicamp.br), with a copy to Nipe's project manager, Johinislan Prates (jprates@unicamp.br), including “FAPESP Project 2017/50205-9 post-doc PD3” in the subject line.

More information about the vacancy at website.

The postdoctoral opportunity is open to Brazilians and foreigners. The selected candidate will receive a FAPESP Post-Doctoral Scholarship worth R$ 7.373,10 per month and a Technical Reserve equivalent to 15% of the annual value of the scholarship to cover unforeseen expenses directly related to the research activity.

If the PD scholarship holder lives outside the city where the research host institution is located and needs to move, they may be entitled to an installation allowance. More information about the FAPESP Postdoctoral Fellowship is available at website. 

Other scholarship vacancies, in different areas of knowledge, are on the FAPESP-Oportunidades website.