1 Open Position to Predoctoral Researcher to join ERC Project “PollutedPast”

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Data de publicación: 02/05/2025

May 2025

ERC Project PollutedPast, led by Dr. Olalla López-Costas, is offering a research contract to predoctoral researcher in diet, mobility and metal pollution.

Main task: To study the connection between humans and metal pollution in Roman and Medieval times. Specific projects will be:

  1. Intra- inter-skeletal variation,
  2. Connection between metals and infectious diseases,
  3. Metals and mother-baby environment. Training in isotopic and elemental (metals) techniques will be provided as part of the project.

The project aims to produce detailed data about human exposure to metal pollution during Roman and Medieval times in Iberia and Scandinavia, and compare with natural archives and contextual information. The team includes researchers of a wide variety of expertise as bioarchaeology, osteoarchaeology, paleography, paleoenvironment, isotope analyses. The project is based at Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Spain, and secondarily at Dpt Archaeology and Classical Studies, Stockholm University, Sweden.
The candidated selected will work at the bioarchaeology unit at CRETUS Research Center of the Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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