3 Open Positions to Postdoctoral Researchers to join ERC Project “PollutedPast”

May 2025

ERC Project PollutedPast, led by Dr. Olalla López-Costas, is offering 3 research contracts to Postdoctoral researchers:

1. Postdoctoral researcher specialist in Zooarchaeology
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2.  Postoctoral researcher specialist in Geochemistry/Stable Isotopes/Histology in archaeological (human) remains
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3. Postdoctoral researcher specialist in Ancient Greek and Roman texts
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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

• CRETUS Researcher: Olalla López-Costas
• Full-time contract, up to 3 years – starting by 1st of September 2025
• Application deadline: 31/05/2025