Job and Study Opportunities

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If you would like to post a job or study opportunity, please email Fiona Le Ray (Careers and Inclusion Officer) with 100-150 words including the job title and workplace, brief summary of the role, deadline, and a link to where they can find more details on how to apply. Please note we only post paid job opportunities. 

 

PhD Position in Community Ecology – University of Bordeaux and University of Gent

Changes in biodiversity in European coastal sand dunes established in front of dune dykes.

DuneFront aims to demonstrate the importance of Dune-Dike Nature Based Solutions for the restoration of local and regional biodiversity. The PhD student will study the patterns of plant diversity, its functioning with respect to dune development and erosion control in the series of demonstrators along the coasts of 6 EU countries. Mainly vegetation ecology, but also patterns in arthropod and soil diversity.

3 years of funding (EU grant DuneFront), Co-tutelle thesis UBordeaux and UGhent.

  • Advisors : Richard Michalet (UBordeaux) and Dries Bonte (UGhent).
  • Requirements : Master degree in Ecology, experience in field experiments, trait-based approaches, plant or animal taxonomy and high level in English speaking and writing.

Beginning: Early March 2024, Early October the latest.

For more information and to apply: Contact richard.michalet@u-bordeaux.fr, Dries.Bonte@UGent.be

 

Postdoc in Eco-evolutionary responses of phytoplankton to changing environments – Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany

3-year Postdoc position in “Eco-evolutionary responses of phytoplankton to changing environments” at the Biologische Anstalt Helgoland (AWI, Germany)

We are searching for an enthusiastic postdoctoral candidate, who will investigate phytoplankton population dynamics and the associated eco-evolutionary responses to warming and changing dissolved nutrient concentrations. The comparison of different phytoplankton taxa will allow us to observe whether certain populations are more prone to instability under stress. To test this, the candidate will conduct long-term exposure chemostat experiments to assess the interactions between different stressors and their effects on fitness-relevant life-history traits of phytoplankton populations.

For any questions you may have, you are very welcome to get in touch with Maarten Boersma (+49 4725 819 3350, maarten.boersma@awi.de).

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PhD in Plant Ecology at the Helmholtz – Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany

We are offering a PhD position in the project “Climate niches and species immigration in grasslands under global change” The prospective PhD project aims to investigate i) the role of climate niches for species response to experimental future climate and ii) how demography and functional traits may explain the establishment success of immigrating plant species into grasslands of different land-use intensity exposed to climate change. The PhD researcher will have the opportunity to work in the large experimental platform Global Change Experimental Facility (GCEF), where future climate is simulated in grasslands managed with different land-use intensity. The candidate will use already existing data from the grasslands of the GCEF and establish a novel seed-addition experiment and quantify if functional traits explain establishment success in experimental treatments.

The PhD will be directly supervised by Dr. Lotte Korell in collaboration with Prof. Isabell Hensen and Dr. Christiane Roscher.

Application deadline: March 31, 2024

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PhD on Parental effects and transgenerational plasticity of fat metabolism – University of Liège, Belgium

We are looking for a highly motivated candidate to work in the laboratory of Dr. Bertanne Visser (ULiège, Belgium) in collaboration with Dr. Cécile Le Lann and Prof. Joan van Baaren (URennes, France). Funding is available to pay a salary for 1 year, during which the candidate is expected to apply for grants to fund a 4-year PhD project.  

During the first year of the project, the candidate will be trained and involved in ongoing research efforts of the Visser laboratory, working on eco-evolutionary aspects of fat metabolism in parasitoids. In collaboration with Prof. van Baaren and Dr. Le Lann, working on the effects of climate change on host-parasitoid interactions, the candidate is expected to develop a project on parental effects and transgenerational plasticity in response to reliable and unreliable variation in host fat content and temperature.

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We seek an experienced, highly motivated, innovative researcher and leader in biodiversity science or an allied discipline related to Nature-based Solutions. A track record of working with plants and their seeds at species and ecosystem level will be an advantage. but we seek applications from all those whose research would enable us to utilise our collections to deliver transformational change to ecosystems and landscapes by helping bridge ex situ and in situ conservation of plants, whilst maximising co-benefits to people, climate and biodiversity.

You will need to be qualified to PhD level in biodiversity science or a related discipline and have extensive postdoctoral, managerial and leadership ability or experience, You will have a good track record in raising research funding through grant applications and show evidence of managing research projects, including budgets. An excellent publication record in higher impact journals is a further requirement, demonstrating a broad and deep knowledge of the existing literature and research in NbS and associated topics, potentially including seed biology and ecology.

Deadline: 1st April

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Post-doctoral research opportunity: Securing Scotland’s soils in a changing climate – ClimateXChange, Edinburgh

One-year post-doctoral research opportunity on Securing Scotland’s soils in a changing climate being commissioned by ClimateXChange, Scotland’s Centre of Expertise on Climate Change. 

Full details are provided below. If you wish to submit a proposal please respond according to the attached document.

Proposals need to be submitted to lee.callaghan@ed.ac.uk and cc’d to sarah.govan@ed.ac.uk for evaluation.

Deadline: noon on Tuesday 7 May 2024.

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