Dear colleagues, please find attached the announcement of four PhD scholarships on Ecological Modelling at the University of Potsdam in Germany.
Kind regards, Boris Schroeder Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24/25, 14476 Potsdam, Germany PhD Scholarships (University of Potsdam) The Potsdam Graduate Initiative on modelling the response of populations, species and communities to global change is seeking highly qualified and motivated candidates for four PhD scholarships. The position is open from 01 July 2007 for up to 3 years. The interdisciplinary research and education program deals with different ecological and evolutionary aspects of the response of populations, species, and communities to the global environmental change. The PhD projects combine recent developments in theoretical ecology as well as process-based and statistical ecological modelling. The projects will be supervised by two members of the Institutes of Biochemistry & Biology, Geoecology, and Physics at the University of Potsdam. They are integrated into the Potsdam Graduate School. The four different topics of the PhD projects are: (1) "Stay and adapt or flee and invade: how do life histories evolve under different scenarios of climate and landscape change" Supervisors F. Jeltsch (Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology) & R. Tiedemann (Evolutionary Biology/Zoology) (2) "Propagation of variability patterns from individual populations to complex food webs - analysis of plankton time-series" Supervisors U. Gaedke (Ecology & Ecosystem Modelling) & J. Kurths (Nonlinear Dynamics) (3) "Integrating dynamic processes into species distribution models to improve predictions for scenarios of environmental change" Supervisors B. Schroeder (Landscape Ecology/Geoecology) & V. Grimm (Ecological Modelling) (4) "Using process-based statistical models to explain and predict range shifts under environmental change" Supervisors F. Schurr (Plant Ecology and Conservation Biology) & W. Cramer (Global Ecology) Applicants must have an above-average Masters degree or equivalent in Natural Sciences and a good background in modelling and statistics . The willingness, both to do interdisciplinary research and to actively participate in the activities of the Potsdam Graduate School, is a prerequisite for the application. Applications, preferably in electronic form, should refer to one of the four projects and include a CV, copies of degree certificates, and possibly a letter of recommendation. They should be forwarded to the project leader, Prof. Dr. Florian Jeltsch, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Plant Ecology & Conservation Biology Group, Am Neuen Palais 10, Universität Potsdam, D-14469 Potsdam (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). For further information, please contact the coordinator of the Graduate Initiative, Dr. Boris Schroeder (Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam, Tel. +49 (0)331 977-2480, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]). See also the web pages of the participating groups (http://www.bio.uni-potsdam.de/; http://www.uni-potsdam.de/u/Geooekologie/; http://www.agnld.uni-potsdam.de/). The closing date for applications is 18 June 2007.
