PhD fellowship in Community/Population Ecology
I am looking for highly motivated graduate students in community/population
ecology starting September 2018 in the Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Graduate Program at Rice University in Houston, Texas. I will consider
applicants who wish to pursue fundamental research on any aspect of
population/community.
Our research examines the ecological factors that generate and determine
the structure, dynamics and functioning of natural communities. Current
projects focus on the consequences of climate change and phenological
shifts on natural communities, ecology and evolution of multi-parasite
communities, the role of intra-specific variation in natural ecosystems,
temporal and spatial biodiversity patterns, and the ecology and evolution
of cannibalism. While most of our work has been carried out in aquatic
(freshwater) systems using organisms that range from stream salamanders to
dragonfly larvae to zooplankton I am amenable to students developing
projects in other study systems. For further information in my research
visit http://volkerrudolf.weebly.com/
Please see our departmental website
http://biosciences.rice.edu/EEB_GradAdmissions.aspx for more information
about the Graduate Program of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Rice
University, our research and graduate programs, and the recent addition of
several outstanding new faculty complementing our strengths in a variety of
research areas ranging from the ecology and evolution of interspecific
interactions, tropical & conservation biology, invasive species, and forest
community dynamics to genomics, speciation, and the evolution of sociality.
Formal application materials for graduate school can be submitted using the
above website. Interested students should send me an email and attach a
copy of their CV. Volker Rudolf Assistant Professor Department of Ecology
and Evolutionary Biology Rice University Houston, TX, 77005
Email:[email protected]
