palaeontologist
ISCO: 2114. Skills: 66. Essential: 38.
Essential skills
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- geographic information systems
- geological time scale
- geology
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- paleontology
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific literature
- scientific modelling
- scientific research methodology
- speak different languages
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- use geographic information systems
- write scientific publications
Supporting skills
- analyse experimental laboratory data
- apply blended learning
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- assemble fossils
- biology
- botany
- chemistry
- collect samples for analysis
- conduct field work
- conduct geochemical research
- develop scientific theories
- examine geochemical samples
- excavate fossils
- gather experimental data
- geography
- geophysics
- habitat restoration
- identify fossils
- interpret geophysical data
- locate fossils
- operate scientific measuring equipment
- oversee excavation
- paleography
- perform laboratory tests
- record test data
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- work ergonomically
- write research proposals