Occupation Atlasbiologist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/eee68e13-8248-43bb-a9fb-959832a6c217
biologist
Biologists study living organisms and life in its broader extent in combination with its environment. Through research, they strive to explain the functional mechanisms, interactions, and evolution of organisms.
Job Zone
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Zone 5: Extensive Preparation Needed
Extensive preparation. Usually a graduate degree, with extensive skill, knowledge and experience — many of these occupations expect more than five years of experience.
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Occupational interest profile
ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative7.00
- C Conventional4.45
- R Realistic4.11
- E Enterprising2.76
- S Social2.62
- A Artistic2.40
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Biologists (19-1029.04): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (38)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- biology
- botany
- collect biological data
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- conduct research on fauna
- conduct research on flora
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- ecosystem management
- evaluate research activities
- gather experimental data
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- laboratory techniques
- life sciences
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- microbiology-bacteriology
- molecular biology
- 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 research methodology
- send samples to laboratory
- synthesise information
- virology
- write scientific publications
Optional (60)
- analyse blood samples
- analyse cell cultures
- animal welfare legislation
- applied zoology
- aquatic species
- archive scientific documentation
- assess environmental impact in aquaculture operations
- biological chemistry
- biosecurity
- biotechnology in aquaculture
- chemistry
- collect fish samples for diagnosis
- collect samples for analysis
- communicate by telephone
- computational biology
- conduct ecological research
- conduct fish mortality studies
- conduct fish populations studies
- conduct genome research
- conserve natural resources
- create natural science taxonomies
- cryopreservation
- develop aquaculture breeding strategies
- develop scientific research protocols
- ecology
- entomology
- fish anatomy
- fish biology
- fish identification and classification
- genomics
- habitat restoration
- herpetology
- identify poisons
- inspect fish stock
- lepidoptery
- mammalogy
- marine biology
- medical parasitology
- monitor fish health status
- mycology
- oceanography
- ornithology
- pathology
- perform field research
- perform laboratory tests
- pharmacology
- proteomics
- provide on-site training in aquaculture facilities
- provide technical expertise
- quality assurance methodologies
- reforestation
- report analysis results
- screen live fish deformities
- seek innovation in current practices
- stem cells
- synthetic biology
- toxicology
- write research proposals
- write routine reports
- write work-related reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
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