Apply The Pioneer Center for Landscape Research in Sustainable Agricultural Futures, Land-CRAFT, at the Department of Agroecology at Aarhus University, Denmark, is offering a postdoctoral position in modelling of nitrogen, carbon and water fluxes in agricultural dominated landscapes. The position will be available starting August 1, 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The position is available for a period of three years.
Food security, climate change and loss of biodiversity represent three of today's major societal challenges. Finding solutions for all these challenges requires studies that extend across multiple scales. The Pioneer Center Land-CRAFT was established in June 2022 to undertake fundamental and applied research from field to landscape scales that will address these societal challenges. The Center brings together experts on climate impact research and landscape analyses with backgrounds in biogeochemistry, agronomy, biology, geography, and social sciences from Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen, as well as our international partners: Colorado State University/NREL and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/IMK-IFU. Digital technologies, including biogeochemical modelling and remote sensing, as well as interactions with stakeholders are key components of Land-CRAFT. Our team of researchers works at field, farm, and landscape levels. The postdoctoral researcher will specialize in the exchange of nitrogen (N), carbon (C), and water between the biosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere from the landscape to the national level. Using a combination of state-of-the-art biogeochemical modeling, remote sensing, and data-driven machine learning approaches, they will improve our understanding of nutrient flows in agricultural landscapes. The postdoc will contribute to the development of databases representing the current state of environmental and agricultural data, with a focus on Denmark as a test bed for wider EU application. Using this information, the postdoc will explore tangible development pathways under climate change constraints to reduce the environmental impact of agriculture.
Ideal candidates have experience in using biogeochemical models at the field and regional levels, as well as exploring machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches to develop surrogate models based on field observations, remote sensing, or modeling outputs. We expect that you will be an important part of the research environment and that you will contribute positively to the social working environment. We also expect that you will take part in our teaching activities and that you will report research results in high-impact scientific journals.
We are searching for a highly motivated candidate who has:
The postdoctoral researcher will:
At the Department of Agroecology, our main goal is to contribute to sustainable solutions to some of the world's biggest problems within the areas of soil, plants, animals, humans, and the environment. We want to make a difference by contributing to both fundamental knowledge generation and the attainment of sustainable production systems via innovative research, contracted policy advice, and education. We offer professional laboratories, greenhouses, semi-field, and field-scale research facilities, advanced computing capacities as well as an extensive national and international researcher network. The department consists of nine research sections with around 350 highly skilled employees, of which approximately 50% are scientific staff. More information can be found here.
The place of work is Aarhus University, Ole Worms Allé 3, 8000 Aarhus C. The affiliation will be with the Department of Agroecology. More information can be obtained from Professor Klaus Butterbach-Bahl (klaus.butterbach-bahl@agro.au.dk).
Application deadline: 20th May 2026
Shortlisting is used. This means that after the deadline for applications – and with the assistance from the assessment committee chairman, and the appointment committee if necessary, – the head of department selects the candidates to be evaluated. All applicants will be notified whether or not their applications have been sent to an expert assessment committee for evaluation. The selected applicants will be informed about the composition of the committee, and each applicant is given the opportunity to comment on the part of the assessment that concerns him/her self.
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