Doctoral candidate in Soil Biogeochemistry under Drought

Eidgenössische Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL; Birmensdorf (ZH); Vor Ort; CHF 55.000 - 65.000; Teilzeit

Zusammenfassung

The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL in Switzerland invites applications for a doctoral candidate position in Soil Biogeochemistry under drought conditions. You will join the DFG Research Group Forest Floor and work on how drought alters organic matter turnover and carbon storage in forest soils.

The role requires a Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Soil Science, Microbiology or related fields, plus strong communication skills and a willingness to

Qualifikationen

• Master’s degree in Environmental Science, Soil Science, Microbiology or related disciplines.
• Strong written and spoken English; knowledge of a Swiss national language is a plus.
• Adept at field research with good physical fitness for moving over rough terrain.

Aufgaben

• Work within the Soil Biogeochemistry group to study drought effects on organic matter turnover and carbon storage.
• Apply stable isotope tracing and radiocarbon techniques in drought experiments.
• Collaborate with researchers from multiple universities to assess drought impacts on soil processes.

Kenntnisse

Communication skills

Self-motivation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Ausbildung

Master’s degree in Environmental/Soil Science

Jobbeschreibung

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.

Doctoral candidate in Soil Biogeochemistry under Drought

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:

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 matter 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.

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