Dear colleagues, There is a PhD position open in my group at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig. This position would be ideal for someone interested in combining biological and computational approaches towards achieving synthesis in our understanding of biodiversity patterns/processes.
The specific PhD project will lead efforts towards synthesizing species- energy relationships (aka productivity-diversity relationships) and the processes underlying this fundamental biodiversity gradient by applying tools we are developing that allow the dissection of species richness into its constituent parts and across scales. The project will include a combination of meta-analysis of published data, analyses of global datasets (using marine fishes and/or trees), analyses of continental/regional and island datasets (using trees, birds, and/or freshwater organisms), and/or field work using globally distributed grassland vegetation plots. Opportunities also exist for getting involved in related collaborative projects, as well as participating in international working groups to achieve synthesis (i.e., through sDiv, the synthesis centre of iDiv). More details on iDiv can be found at https://www.idiv.de/ More details on the position, application procedure, etc. can be found here: https://www.idiv.de/fileadmin/content/Vacancies_PDF/PhDannouncementChase 2.pdf Best, Jon Chase ------ Jonathan Chase Professor and Head of Biodiversity Synthesis Research Group German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena- Leipzig Email: jonathan.ch...@idiv.de Affiliations Department of Computer Science Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena- Leipzig Deutscher Platz 5e 04103 Leipzig Germany iDiv is a research centre of the DFG – Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
