PhD Fully Funded Position in Ecosystem Processes in Heathland Soils under Climate Change in Prague, Czech Republic

 PhD Fully Funded Position in Ecosystem Processes in Heathland Soils under Climate Change in Prague, Czech Republic

PhD Fully Funded Position in ecosystem processes in heathland soils under climate change in Prague, Czech Republic; We are seeking for a PhD student! Joint project between our laboratory and the Ecotron Centre at the University of Hasselt in Belgium will focus on ecosystem processes in heathland soils under climate change.

Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology (Prague, Czechia), group of Petr Kohout and Centre for Environmental Sciences, Hasselt University (Hasselt, Belgium), Ecotron research team Nadejda Soudzilovskaia and Francois Rineau is looking for a motivated PhD student. The person will join the consortium of the Excellence Research Centre Project “INTER-MICRO” that aims to identify threat associated with global changes on soil microorganisms with consecutive effects on ecosystem processes.

The new PhD student will also gain from our long-term research collaboration with prof. Petr Baldrian (head of the Laboratory of Environmental Microbiology) from the Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Science.

The proposed PhD position will gain from a long-term experiment simulating the effects of various future climatic scenarios on heathland ecosystem, run in the Ecotron centre at the Hasselt University. The PhD project aims to identify changes in microbial processes (e.g., carbon and nutrients cycling) in heathland soils under future climatic conditions.

WE SEEK

• University degree in the field of biology, botany, ecology, or similar
• Excellence in English and good communication skills
• Motivation for scientific work within the frames of the project
• PhD study will take place within one of the doctoral programmes at Charles University in Czechia

WE OFFER

• Work in an inspiring and friendly environment of an international team. For more details about the research group.
• We offer access to interesting experiments / datasets produced by the lab and their collaborators.
• The position is funded until June 2028. The full-time position has a weekly working time of 40 hours.
• 30 days paid holiday per year
• Employee benefits (discount on meals, sport/leisure activities, language courses etc.)

To apply: The deadline for applications is 31 March 2024, with a start date of 1 October. Please send your Curriculum Vitae and motivation letter to Petr Kohout (petr.kohout@biomed.cas.cz).

Website:  (https://kohoutlab.com/)