We’re happy to announce that our research unit at UNamur (Research Unit in Environmental and Evolutionary Biology) is hiring a new assistant professor (lecturer – chargé de cours) to start in September 2025. The research topics are broad but oriented towards biodiversity, field ecology and conservation biology of aquatic ecosystems (it can be expanded to…
Category: Biodiversity
New Pairi Daiza grant
We are glad to announce a new grant for biologists: the Royal Belgian Zoological Society (whose Frederic Silvestre is the president) and the Pairi Daiza Foundation aim to encourage with a grant (2.500 euros) the research done in Zoological gardens and dealing with biodiversity and animal conservation. If you are a zoologist researcher working in…
Towards 2 first national parks in Wallonia
Our lab and research institute ILEE is participating to the creation of a national park in south “entre-Sambre-et-Meuse”. This project has been selected for the round of 4 in order to develop the 2 first national parks in Wallonia. https://parc-national-esem.be/
Biodiversity crisis in Omalius
This month, the first page of the journal of the University of Namur, Omalius, is dedicated to the researches carried out at ILEE (Institute of Life, Earth and Environment) related to the biodiversity crisis. The works of Frederic Silvestre and his colleagues Frederik Delaender, Jonhatan Marescaux, Sabine Henry and Nicolas Dendoncker are summarized. Thanks to…