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Location: Biodiversa+ Secretariat, French Foundation for Biodiversity Research (FRB), 195 rue Saint-Jacques, 75005 Paris, France.
Duration: Fixed-term contract for 6 months, full-time position, potentially extendable.
Monthly salary: 2 743 to 2 822 € before tax, depending on education and experience.
Starting date: 2 February 2026
Application deadline: 4 January, 2026

Context
FRB is the coordinator of Biodiversa+. Its role is to host part of the operational team, manage the partnership’s budgets in accordance with the directives of the general assembly, and participate in various activities at the science-society-policy interface.
 
About WP5 (Internationalisation)
Biodiversa+ works to maximise the relevance, impact and visibility of European Research and Innovation (R&I) for biodiversity conservation and its sustainable use, both in Europe and globally. Their key objectives are to :

• Promote R&I collaboration with countries located outside the European Research Area (ERA).
• Strengthen connections between European R&I and IPBES.
• Ensure that joint R&I programming is aligned with the global policy framework. particularly the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.
• Improve access to and utilisation of global biodiversity research infrastructures.

 
Main roles
Within the FRB, the project manager will be responsible for providing support to other work package officers and partner organisations involved in implementing WP5 activities (internationalisation) as part of the European partnership on biodiversity (Biodiversa+).
Under the supervision of one of the Biodiversa+ operational managers, the WP5 (Internationalisation) Officer will be responsible for:

• Supporting the partners involved in implementing the activities planned in WP5;
• Monitoring the proper implementation of decisions taken by the Partnership’s governing bodies for WP5 activities;
• Provide support for practical aspects (e.g. organising meetings or events) and for administrative and financial issues related to WP5;
• Report on the activities under their responsibility (in particular in the context of internal reporting to the partnership and the European Commission).
• Close collaboration with the other WP5 Officer.

 

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Location: FRB –195 rue St Jacques 75005 Paris and Laboratoire Ecologie, Société & Evolution, Univ Paris Saclay, (12 month)
FRB-CESAB, 5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 MONTPELLIER (17 month)
Salary: Between 2822 and 2974 € (gross per month, according to the FRB salary scale, commensurate with experience, plus benefits (including social insurance)).
Contract: 29 months fixed term, full time
Application deadline: 5th January 2026
Starting date: Between mid-February and April 2026
 

Job information
The Knowledge-Hub (KH) Protected Areas is part of a large French Priority Exploratory Research Program entitled SOLU-BIOD (Biodiversity and Nature-based Solutions) emanating from France 2030. SOLU-BIOD is managed by the CNRS and INRAE, and structured around several programs. One of these programs is devoted to KHs (including Protected Areas), managed by the University of Montpellier over the 2025-2029 period with KHs being hosted at FRB-CESAB. As part of the partnership with SOLU-BIOD, the post-doctoral researcher is recruited by the FRB.
 
It has been clearly established that protected and conserved areas (PAs) are a major vehicle of Nature based Solutions(Lipka et al., 2023). PAs can mitigate the effects of climate change through both protectionist and interventionist approaches. Specifically, NbS may lead to increased extent of PAs (or design new ones), improve representation of biodiversity within PAs, improve management and restoration measures of PAs to facilitate resilience, protect (or create) movement corridors, and refugia (Mawdsley et al., 2009). NbS encouraged us to consider PAs not only as areas of protection preserving what already exists, but also as areas of high adaptation and resilience of biodiversity facing global warming. In this context, there are several opportunities identified in the literature for NbSto facilitate resilience. They include the conservation of PAs with a focus on free-ranging management to preserve the resilience of ecosystems and the importance to protect all facets of biodiversity within PAs (functional and phylogenetic diversities). Moreover the designation of thermal corridors in peripheral and between PAs are implemented to facilitate the movement of species and the preservation of micro-habitats and micro-climatic refuges to promote the persistence of species at the edge of their range (Dowals et al., 2014, Chausson et al., 2020, Elsen et al., 2020). Yet, a quantitative analysis on how the current network of PAs may contribute as a NbS to protect biodiversity in a context of climate change is still lacking.
 
Despite the growing number of reviews synthesizing the evidence of the effectiveness of Nature-based Solutions (NbS) for climate change adaptation that have been published lately, no quantitative assessment of the models and scenarios exists to date. The aim of the post-doc project will be to fill this gap and:

• Objective 1: review the models and scenarios based on Solutions for Nature-Protected Areas (SfN-PAs) to enable biodiversity to cope with climate
  change at the global scale;
• Objective 2: use this knowledge to model how the current network of protected areas (PAs) in France may or may not protect multiple facets of diversity in the context of climate change, and thus build scenarios of PAs to facilitate the movement of species and preserve biodiversity;
• Objective 3: transfer and test the framework developed from the global to the local scale by relying on the network of PEPR SOLU-BIOD living labs. By addressing these objectives, the ultimate goal is to provide guidelines to design robust and resilient NbS that address the urgent challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, following the recommendations of Seddon et al. (2021).

 
 

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Location: FRB – CESAB, 5, rue de l’École de Médecine, 34000 Montpellier, France
Salary: Starting from 2822 € gross per month (according to the FRB salary scale), social security and paid leave according to French legislation
Contract: 24 months fixed term, full time, possibility of 1 year extension
 
Application deadline: January 23rd 2026 [Extended]
Starting date: April 2026

Job information  
Projecting the future trajectories of marine social-ecological systems is highly challenging, with many sources of uncertainty. Mirroring the approach of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) for climate research, the international Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (FishMIP; www.fishmip.org) produces multi-model ensemble projections of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems at global and regional scales. Since its inception in 2013, FishMIP has made substantial contributions to major science-policy processes, including the IPCC, the IPBES, and policy-oriented analyses for the FAO.
 
FishMIP is now launching the Ocean System Pathways (OSPs, see Maury et al., 2025, https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004851), a new scenario framework that extends the IPCC’s Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) into the domains of fisheries, marine biodiversity conservation, and aquaculture. The OSPs include qualitative storylines, quantitative model driver pathways, and a “plug-in-model” framework that allow diverse marine ecosystem models to simulate future fisheries dynamics in a standardized way. They will enable the heterogeneous and international suite of ecosystem models willing to contribute to FishMIP to simulate fisheries dynamics in a standardised way.
 
We are looking for a talented 24-month postdoctoral researcher (that can be extended to 36 months) to drive the analysis and publication of social-ecological simulation results from the FishMIP-OSP project, to evaluate the future of marine ecosystems and fisheries under various climate and socio-economic changes along these new socio-economic scenarios.
 
Specifically, the successful candidate will contribute to the FishMIP–OSP project by:
 

• Contributing to the analyses of the ensemble ecosystem model simulations to explore how ecosystems and fisheries might change in the future, focusing on key issues such as climate justice, food security, equitable fisheries management, and biodiversity conservation.
• Analysing and publishing collective simulation results to inform ongoing policy processes within the FAO and developing contributions with the goal of informing the synthesis work of the IPCC, IPBES, and the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD).
• Helping to develop targeted scenarios and simulation protocols and working with marine ecosystem modellers to coordinate model runs of those scenarios.
• Participate in all FishMIP OSP meetings and workshops, and be involved in the collaborative teamwork and environment of the project.
• Contribute to the assessment of the historical simulations, including harmonising historical data to evaluate ecosystem models against observations using appropriate statistical methods.

 
The successful candidate will play a fundamental role in the project. He/she will have the opportunity to collaborate with an international network of marine ecosystem researchers and modellers across the FishMIP community, engage in high-impact, policy-relevant science at the science–policy interface, in a scientific field whose purpose and societal impact will give meaning to his/her efforts. He/she will work in at the CESAB, an international hub for biodiversity and climate research located in the beautiful city center of Montpellier.
 

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