Doctoral candidate in Soil Biogeochemistry under Drought
WSL · Birmensdorf ZH, Zürich, Switzerland
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Doctoral candidate in Soil Biogeochemistry under Drought
Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL
The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL is part of the ETH Domain. Approximately 600 people work on the sustainable use and protection of the environment and on the handling of natural hazards.
The Research Unit Forest and Soil Ecology assesses the impact of climate change and management on forests and their soils and is looking for a doctoral candidate in the Soil Biogeochemistry Research Group:
Doctoral candidate in Soil Biogeochemistry under Drought
The doctoral candidate is going to work within the interdisciplinary DFG Research Group Forest Floor, which aims to assess the impacts of global change in particular drought on forest soils. The candidate will investigate the effects of drought on organic turnover and carbon storage in the soil.
The research will involve stable isotope tracing, radiocarbon techniques and measuring carbon and nitrogen pools and fluxes in short and long\-term drought experiments.
The doctoral candidate will closely collaborate with other researchers and doctoral candidates from Universities Freiburg, Munich, Göttingen, Hamburg, and Vienna, to estimate the impacts of recurrent droughts on soil processes and functions under global change.
Workplace will be at the Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL in Birmensdorf and the candidate will be enrolled as a PhD student at ETH Zurich.
The successful candidate holds a Master's degree in Environmental Science, Soil Science, Microbiology or related disciplines. Applicants should demonstrate strong communication skills, self\-motivation, an aptitude for field research incl. good physical condition for moving safely over rough terrain, and a commitment to collaborative, interdisciplinary research. Good English skills (writing and speaking) are expected, knowledge of a Swiss national language is a plus.
Please send your complete application to Stefania Pe, Human Resources WSL, by uploading the requested documents through our webpage. Applications via email will not be considered. Hagedorn, phone , will be happy to answer any questions or offer further information. WSL is committed to diversity and inclusion as core values. We actively promote gender equality and foster an open, inclusive work environment.
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