Researcher / Posdoc (f/m/d) - Project: Supporting Agroecological Transitions of Agroforestry Landscapes using an Innovative Transdisciplinary Assessment Framework

Müncheberg

Leibniz-Zentrum für Agrarlandschaftsforschung (ZALF) e.V.

The mission of the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF) as a nationally and internationally active research institute is to deliver solutions for an ecologically, economically and socially sustainable agriculture – together with society. ZALF is a member of the Leibniz Association and is located in Müncheberg (approx. 35 minutes by regional train from Berlin-Lichtenberg). It also maintains a research station with further locations in Dedelow and Paulinenaue.

The ZALF Research Group on “Impact Assessment” focusses on assessing the sustainability impacts of agricultural management options across temporal and spatial scales. It develops tools and indicators for scenario building, literature-based and stakeholder-based ex-ante assessments, and applies them in selected case studies. The group will contribute to the project “Supporting Agroecological Transitions of Agroforestry Landscapes using an Innovative Transdisciplinary Assessment Framework (AGRECO4CAST)”, funded und the 1st EU-Agroecology call. AGRECO4CAST will develop a toolbox of model-based and stakeholder based assessment tools, and apply it to assess impacts of agroecological transition pathways in agroforestry Living Labs (LL) across Europe.

We are offering a 60% part time position (24 hours per week) temporarily limited for 3 years at our location in Müncheberg, subject to final confirmation by the funding organization and starting from 01.05.2025, as

Researcher / Posdoc (f/m/d)

09-2025

Your tasks:

• Design the participatory assessment tools for the AGRECO4CAST toolbox and contribute to its applications in the case study regions in collaboration with the project partners
• Coordinate the analysis of regional, national and European policies that affect agroecological transition pathways and associated business models in the case study regions
• Support the co-development of agroecological transition scenarios, of digital round tables, and of an adapted AI chatbot
• digital round tables, and
• Support  project coordination and dissemination of results.
• Publish your research in high ranking journals

Your qualifications:

Required:

• PhD in agricultural- or horticultural sciences, or related discipline, preferably with a socio-economic focus
• Hands-on experience organizing workshops with farming, value chain, NGO and policy stakeholders
• Hands-on experience in conducting participatory ex-ante impact assessments
• Well-versed with stakeholder-based tools for scenario building and impact assessments
• Experience in interdisciplinary work at the interface between natural and social sciences

Desirable:

• Expertise with regard to sustainable soil management and of the role of soils for sustainable development
• Expertise with ecosystem services assessments
• as an internationally research institution, located in Germany we require good to very good written and spoken English skills and the willingness to take part in further training as part of the language courses in German offered internally

What we offer:

•   an interdisciplinary working environment that encourages independence and self-reliance
•   classification according to the collective agreement of the federal states (TV-L) 13 (including special annual payment)
•   a collegial and open-minded working atmosphere in a dynamic research institution
•   company ticket
•   option for working remotely (up to 40% of working time)
•   in-house language courses in German and English

Women are particularly encouraged to apply. Applications from severely disabled persons with equal qualifications are favored. The filling of the position in part-time is possible in principle. Please send your application preferably online (see button online application below). For e-mail applications, create a PDF document (one PDF file, max. 5 MB; packed PDF documents, archive files like zip, rar etc. Word documents cannot be processed and therefore cannot be considered!) with the usual documents, in particular CV, proof of qualification and certificates, stating the reference number 09-2025 until 12 March 2025 to (see button e-mail application below).

E-mail application 
Online application 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: Dr. Carsten Paul, Tel. +49 (0) 33432/82-325.
Contact of Human resource management: personal@zalf.de

For cost reasons, application documents or extensive publications can only be returned if an adequately stamped envelope is attached.

If you apply, we collect and process your personal data in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of the EU GDPR only for the processing of your application and for purposes that result from possible future employment with the ZALF. Your data will be deleted after six months.

Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF)
Eberswalder Straße 84 in 15374 Müncheberg (Germany)