The Helmholtz
Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Germany – a leading research centre
in Europe with exciting
research topics, excellent supervision, solid structures, interdisciplinary
team work and tailored qualification at the UFZ Graduate School HIGRADE – the
best conditions to start a successful career.
The Centre is recruiting 50
doctorate and post-doctorate candidates (male or female) in addressing the most pressing societal and
scientific challenges across ten large integrated projects (IP) in research
areas like land use, biological diversity, water, soil, chemicals, health and
energy.
Eligibility
You are an excellent
graduate in natural, social or economic sciences? You are, e.g., biologist,
hydrologist, engineer or economist with outstanding skills, knowledge and
ideas? We invite you to submit an application to the Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research – UFZ, the international centre of competence for
environmental sciences and member of the largest scientific organisation in
Germany, the Helmholtz Association. Come to Leipzig, Halle or Magdeburg, three
modern and unique science locations with an appealing culture and flair.
Deadline - August 24 2012
Areas of Research - The 10 IP areas of interest are stated below.
IP No. 1: Mitigating of land useconflicts
4 PhD students (m/f) and 1 scientist / post-doc (m/f, 50%)
4 PhD students (m/f) and 1 scientist / post-doc (m/f, 50%)
The
general aim of the integrated project is the development of scenarios,
indicators and optimization tools to quantify, to value and to safeguard
ecosystem services and biodiversity in new cultural landscapes for future
generations. Carrying out several local and regional case studies in mainly
agricultural, urban-rural and protected regions we want to provide a scientific
consistent concept for upscaling results to the national level.
IPNo. 2: Emerging ecosystems: functional dynamics under global change
4 PhD students (m/f) and 1 post-doc (m/f, 50%)
4 PhD students (m/f) and 1 post-doc (m/f, 50%)
Changes
in land use and climate, invading species (including pathogens and their
vectors) as well as chemical stressors alter environmental states into
previously not encountered conditions. Using experiments, observation and
modelling, we aim at identifying functional changes in ecosystems emerging
under these novel conditions.
IPNo. 3: Land use aspects of transforming the energy system
5 PhD students (m/f) and 1 post-doc (m/f, 50%)
5 PhD students (m/f) and 1 post-doc (m/f, 50%)
This
Integrated Project focuses on aspects of the (above- and below-ground) land use
change driven by the politically fostered large-scale transition to
decentralized renewable energy systems. In an interdisciplinary team of natural
and social scientists, socio-economic and environmental impacts will be
assessed and options for a sustainable implementation and effective governance
will be developed.
IP No. 4: Urban transformations
2 scientists (m/f, 50%), 1 PhD student / scientist (m/f, 50%) and 1 scientist (m/f)
2 scientists (m/f, 50%), 1 PhD student / scientist (m/f, 50%) and 1 scientist (m/f)
This IP
provides research contributions on sustainable urban development focussing on
resource efficiency, quality of life and resilience. The challenge is to ensure
a fair distribution of resources with simultaneous consideration of needs to
adapt to global change. This applies to both, growing and shrinking urban
areas.
IP No. 5: Healthy aquaticecosystems
4 PhD students (m/f)
4 PhD students (m/f)
An
interdisciplinary team of scientists (ecologists, ecotoxicologists, social and
legal scientists) develops innovative strategies to optimize the status and
functions of inland water bodies exposed to multiple pressures.
IPNo. 6: Water and solute fluxes in catchments
6 PhD students (m/f)
6 PhD students (m/f)
A
quantitative understanding of solute fluxes in catchments is an important
prerequisite for the management of solute exports from landscapes and the
mitigation of adverse effects on the receiving waters. Within IP No. 6 new data
and model driven concepts to better understand and quantify solute fluxes in
catchments will be developed.
IPNo. 7: Water scarcity – Water management in semi-arid regions
6 PhD students (m/f) and 1 scientist (m/f)
6 PhD students (m/f) and 1 scientist (m/f)
To secure
water for living will be one of the most challenging global tasks of the 21st
century. In this highly interdisciplinary project we will develop future water
scenarios for semi-arid and arid regions by combining monitoring and modeling
strategies of hydrological and hydro-geological processes with the development
and implementation of new technologies for a better water use efficiency and a
socio-economic and legal assessment of water resources management options.
IPNo. 8: Exposome – Environmental pollution and its impacts on human health
6 PhD students (m/f)
6 PhD students (m/f)
There is evidence
that environmental factors including life style contribute to complex diseases
significantly more than genetic factors. The project goal is to identify
causative links between perturbation-induced exposure in the body and adverse
outcome pathways.
IP No. 9: Controlling chemicals’fate
7 PhD students (m/f)
7 PhD students (m/f)
The
project “Controlling chemicals’ fate” aims at evaluating and modeling the
capacity of ecosystems to degrade chemicals with the goal to promote the
eco-compatible design, the predictability of fate and the sustainable
management of chemicals in ecosystems.
IPNo. 10: From local observations to regional predictions
3 PhD students (m/f)
3 PhD students (m/f)
Land
surface models describe the exchanges of energy, water and CO2 with
the atmosphere. The integrated project “From local observations to regional
predictions” examines how biodiversity and succession can be incorporated in
the descriptions of land surface models. Hyperspectral imaging, ecosystem
productivity and soil moisture measurements with cosmic ray sensors are
currently installed in the TERENO observatories and will be used in the model
development and for evaluation.
If you
are interested, go to the website http://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=30617 and click on
any of the areas and contact the email attached to it.
Goodluck
with your application.
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