Project description: Your mission will be integrated into Action 1 of Work Package 2, "How human societies interact with their environments?" which focuses on the study of past climate changes and their possible impact on hominin populations through pollen analysis of deep oceanic sedimentary sequences, their comparison with archaeological data and the application of ecological niche models.
The mission is to compare a high-resolution pollen record from a deep-sea sedimentary sequence of the Iberian margin covering the Middle Pleistocene Transition (~1.2–0.65 million years ago) with other paleoclimatic records and Eurasian archaeological and paleoanthropological data. Ecological niche modeling of hominins will be used to test hypotheses explaining European depopulation during this period. The study will be disseminated through high-impact scientific publications.
• Processing, and interpretation of pollen data
• Creation of a Eurasian paleoclimatic database for the Middle Pleistocene Transition
(~1.2–0.65 million years ago)
• Use of archaeological and paleoanthropological databases
• Application of ecological niche modeling

Principal supervisors: Maria Fernanda Sánchez Goñi (DE, EPOC), Clément Zanolli (CR, PACEA)

Workpackage Action: WP2A1

Place of work: Laboratoire EPOC, UMR 5805, Allée Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - CS 50023 - 33615 PESSAC CEDEX - FRANCE

Contract duration: 12 months

Expected starting date: September 1st 2026

Application deadline: May 16th 2026

Project description: The recruitment for a Project Engineer in database and GIS falls within the research of the Ausonius members regarding cities and the mapping of urban spaces. The successful candidate will work within the “Cities” team (Action 6 of WP3), which brings together faculty members, researchers, doctoral students, and archaeologists from INRAP, from Ausonius and Archéosciences Bordeaux. He will also work in collaboration with the Ausohnum department, in particular with Nathalie Prévôt, Digital Humanities Engineer and Clément Coutelier, Geomatics Engineer.

Action 6, 'Villes', of Work Package 3 (WP3) aims to analyse urban trajectories over the long term, from Greek and Roman antiquity and the protohistory of Western Europe to the medieval period. This is achieved by employing comparative, quantitative and spatial approaches, with a particular focus on tipping points, communication networks and urban hierarchies. The research specifically focuses on the tipping point represented by the emergence of urbanisation in human societal evolution. Phase 2 of the project explicitly emphasises the development and migration of databases, the creation of WebGIS and cartography.

Principal supervisor: Natacha Trippé (MCF, UMR Ausonius)

Workpackage Action: WP3A6

Place of work: Laboratoire Ausonius, UMR 5607, Maison de l’archéologie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, 8 esplanade des Antilles, 33607 Pessac cedex, France

Contract duration: 24 months

Expected starting date: June 1st 2026

Application deadline: May 1st 2026