Research Assistant (PhD candidate) - Position 6634

Doctorat / PhD Profil chercheur : First Stage Researcher (R1) Type de contrat : Temporary Date limite de candidature : 1 Dec 2026 - 15:30 (Europe/Bucharest) Date de début : 1 Jan 2027 Programme UE : Not funded by a EU programme Référence : RECOVER 14CoEX/2026 – Position 6634 Domaine : Biological sciences

The University of Bucharest is recruiting researchers for RECOVER – the Romanian Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Society (PN-IV-P6-6.1-CoEx-2024-0124, contract 14CoEX/2026). RECOVER is a national consortium coordinated by Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), funded through Romania’s National Research, Development and Innovation Plan (PN-IV, Programme 6, Centres of Excellence). The Centre integrates ecology, geography and the social sciences and humanities to understand biodiversity change, assess ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people, and co-design conservation and restoration solutions with stakeholders. The selected candidate will join the University of Bucharest team and work within the RECOVER work packages, together with the partner teams in the consortium. The PhD researcher will work mainly in task T5.4 (social innovation for urban green space management) and, as needed, T5.3 (mapping nature’s contributions to people in urban and rural systems through citizen science). Main tasks Carry out literature reviews and critical syntheses. Contribute to the research methodology used in the project. Organise and conduct interviews, focus groups and participatory workshops; collect social, institutional and spatial data. Use mixed methods for integrated data analysis; contribute to developing and calculating social-ecological indicators. Support co-creation processes, citizen science and living labs, partnerships and knowledge transfer. Contribute to the technical and scientific reports for T5.4. Contribute to at least 2 scientific articles and 1 policy brief per year, and to position papers and other project materials. Contribute to materials communicating results to decision-makers and the public. Give at least 2 conference presentations per year and help organise scientific events. Contribute to project deliverables, reporting (WP1), dissemination (WP6) and capacity building (WP7); follow research ethics and integrity standards and acknowledge RECOVER 14CoEX/2026 in all outputs.

The University of Bucharest is recruiting researchers for RECOVER – the Romanian Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Society (PN-IV-P6-6.1-CoEx-2024-0124, contract 14CoEX/2026). RECOVER is a national consortium coordinated by Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), funded through Romania’s National Research, Development and Innovation Plan (PN-IV, Programme 6, Centres of Excellence). The Centre integrates ecology, geography and the social sciences and humanities to understand biodiversity change, assess ecosystem services and nature’s contributions to people, and co-design conservation and restoration…