The Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biogeochemistry in association with the Friedrich Schiller University (IMPRS-gBGC) is offering a PhD program specializing in global biogeochemistry and related Earth System sciences.
Research areas:
- Improved understanding of biogeochemical processes with an emphasis on terrestrial ecosystems
- Development of observational techniques to monitor and assess biogeochemical feedbacks in the earth system
- Theory and model development for improving the representation of biogeochemical processes in comprehensive earth system models
Duration: 3 years, fulltime position
Starting date: flexible
Value: PhD researchers with a Master’s or Diploma degree receive either a scholarship which is free of tax and social insurance or a support contract.
Requirements
- Applications are invited from well-motivated and highly-qualified students from all countries.
- Applicants must hold (or are about to receive) M.Sc. or equivalent degree in natural sciences.
- Applicants must possess proficiency in English since English is the official language of the program.
How to apply:
- Apply online
Overview of open PhD projects
- Investigation of nitrogen fixation by means of Raman gas spectroscopy
- Cavity enhanced Raman spectroscopy for highly sensitive monitoring of biogenic gases
- Land-management for ecosystem resilience
- Data science approaches to the classification of ecosystem disturbances from satellite remote sensing
- Inter-annual variability in terrestrial ecosystem fluxes
- Next-generation eocsystem models to simulate acclimation of plant nutrient-use strategies to global change
- Integrating bottom-up and top-down methods to estimate the variability of the Siberian carbon balance
- Carbon/Water/Nutrient Interaction – From Individuals to Ecosystems
- Truffle production: an affair of three?
- Plant traits and chemical diversity of tropical tree species in the central Amazon forests
- Multiscale modeling of carbon dynamics in the Earth system
- Tree defense in a changing world
- Biodiversity impacts on the resistance of soil carbon dynamics to climate extremes
- What can new organic markers reveal about the seasonal metabolism of the tropical critical zone?
- Reconstruction of subsurface flow networks in the critical zone using natural organic tracers
- Incorporation of oxygen measurements in soil studies
- Aluminium release and secondary hydroxide (trans-) from primary silicates in acidic soils
- Optimization of artefact-minimized sampling techniques and devices for monitoring of aeration zone fluids, percolates and mobile inventory
- Understanding dissolved organic matter (DOM) by destroying it: Combining metabolomics and bioinformatics to overcome the chimeric nature of DOM
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Organization | Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biogeochemistry |
Fellowship Level | Doctoral |
Country | Germany |
Subject areas | Microbiology & Ecology, Earth Sciences and Climate Research, Natural Sciences |
Fellowship amount | Fully-funded |
Eligibility | Open to all nationalities |
Deadline | 06 September 2020 |
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