Hi all, I just wanted to share this pcm PhD opportunity supervised by my collaborator and I:
*PhD position: comparative phylogenetic studies on insect body size* Closing date ~ *February 10th*. Open to applicants from all nations. We are seeking a PhD student (September 2020 start) to join the Department of Zoology at Estonia's leading research centre, the University of Tartu. We propose that the PhD thesis will address questions such as associations between body size and environment, macroevolutionary trends in body size, and inferring constraints on body size. The PhD student will primarily be running comparative analyses upon novel phylogenetic trees for moths (generated by other members of the lab) using various R packages (e.g. BAMMtools, geomorph, ape, phytools) and will also participate in data collection (incl. examining museum specimens). The work will be supervised by Prof. Toomas Tammaru (http://kodu.ut.ee/~tammarut) and Dr. John Clarke ( http://bit.ly/2qimTCy). The group has a solid background in evolutionary ecology of insects, phylogenetic analyses and taxonomy of Lepidoptera, as well as collaboration ties with various universities in Europe (e.g. potential to collaborate with Niklas Wahlberg at Lund University, and Sebastian Höhna at LMU Munich) and North America. PhD studies in Estonia last for 4 years and publishing research papers is a requirement; PhD students receive competitive scholarships allowing them to work on their thesis full time (alongside taking some relevant classes). A successful candidate will have an excellent academic record, experience with statistical analyses and interest in evolutionary biology. Some experience and/or genuine interest in the ecology/evolution/taxonomy of insects as well as previous experience with phylogenetic comparative methods is an advantage. The candidate should have their master’s degree by August 01, 2020 (if you are due to complete in September 2020, still contact us, we may be able to find a solution - a master's is an essential requirement for the institution, sadly); the enrolment as a PhD student will be from September 01, 2020. If you are considering applying, *please contact us before the end of February 10th (any time zone). *Please email Toomas ( toomas.tamm...@ut.ee) for additional details and so he can add you to the list of candidates, and myself (j.clarke.pa...@gmail.com) for any general questions / to register your interest if you do not receive a reply from Toomas. Additional information will be added to this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/jclarkepaleo/status/1219285440555077632 Please share this with anyone you think might be interested. All the best, John [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
