Job offer at the CNRS: Technician for heritage collections at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle

– Offer of a short-term contract at CNRS: Technician for heritage collections at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle
Collection manager: documentary information and heritage collection assistant. Five-month contract. al-‘Ulā DPA project

Five-month CNRS job, based at the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (Eco-anthropologie, UMR 7206), Jardin des plantes site (Paris, 5^th arrondissement), France.

Position starting: February 1, 2024.
Application deadline: Nov. 23, 2023
This position has been filled. ✅

– How to apply?

Applications must be sent via the CNRS job website before Nov. 23, 2023: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Gestion/Offr... (réf.: UMR7206-VINBAT-006)

– Details in the enclosed documents.
The main objective of this job is to document, inform, sort and permanently integrate date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) samples collected with their owners in the al-‘Ulā oasis region (Saudi Arabia) by al-‘Ulā DPA Project: Ethnographic, genetic, and morphometric analyses of the date palm agrobiodiversity in al-‘Ulā oasis.
This collection of samples has been split into two parts, one for genetic analysis and the other stored by the Muséum national d’histoire naturelle for science replication purposes — a scientific experimental protocol must guarantee the transparency and replicability of the experiment. To this end, a Muséum research engineer, Mrs. Flora Pennec, under the direction of Dr. Vincent Battesti, registers them in the Muséum’s botanical collections, renowned for their expertise in the conservation of biological material.
The technician hired will work under the authority of CNRS engineer Flora Pennec.

Profil de poste Technicien H/F de collections patrimoniales au Muséum national d’histoire naturelle.

– Links

• Ethnobotany collection, Muséum
• CNRS
• Lab. Éco-anthropologie (Musée de l’Homme)
• Muséum national d’hsitoire naturelle

Exemple de folioles de palmes de Phoenix dactylifera L. échantillonnées (avant conditionnement) sur le terrain, Sample #00467 [réf. al-Ula-202206030951], type nommé “muṭawaq”, dans un jardin du quartier de palmeraie d’al-Sa‘ah, vallée de l’oasis d’al-‘Ulā (Arabie saoudite), le 3 juin 2022, Vincent Battesti
Example of palm leaflets of Phoenix dactylifera L. sampled (before conditioning) in the field, Sample #00467 [ref. al-Ula-202206030951], named type “muṭawaq”, in a garden of the palm grove district of al-Sa’ah, valley of al-‘Ulā oasis (Saudi Arabia), June 3, 2022, Vincent Battesti