Louvre Abu Dhabi is looking to appoint a Senior Conservation Scientist (Organic Materials) to join the Research Laboratory to perform scientific analysis and research aimed at understanding, preserving, and interpreting objects from the museum diverse collection in collaboration with curators, conservators, and other museum staff. The laboratory has been operational for a year and a half and had already acquired some capabilities (including OM, SEM-EDS, MA-XRF, FTIR, Raman), but the new scientist will be developing the organic materials analysis section from the ground up, starting by purchasing the chromatography and mass spectroscopy instruments.
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L'ingénieur sera chargé, sous la direction de la responsable de la Plateforme datation par le C14, de la mise en œuvre de la méthode de datation par le carbone 14 et de son application, dans le cadre de l'archéologie nationale et internationale.
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The preferred candidate should have carried out long-term research in human Plio-Pleistocene evolution. Well documented expertise in the analysis of the human and primate fossil record and quantitative analyt-ical skills (including, but not limited to virtual anthropology, histological or modelling approaches) are expected. Long-term participation and / or leadership in fieldwork is desired. Potential research directions to be considered include ontogenetic and life history perspectives on human evolution; locomotor adaptations; and / or environmental influences on human evolution. The position will be responsible for the Paleoanthropology curriculum in Human Evolution at the bachelor and master levels, including teaching of lecture and laboratory courses (e.g. Introduction to the Human Fossil Record, Evolution of Human Biolo-gy and Behavior, Research Design, Evolutionary Theory). The position has a teaching load of nine hours per week during the semester. The successful candidate will be expected to complement existing strengths in the Paleoanthropology working group and to develop new collaborative research avenues.
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