I am seeking at least one Ph.D. student to join my lab in the School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology in fall 2017. Research in my lab focuses on community ecology, with current work involving biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, community assembly, phylogenetic community ecology, and experimental evolution. Students who are interested in any aspects of community ecology will be considered. The successful applicants will have the opportunity to work in the lab (e.g., microcosm-based research) and/or in the field (e.g., studying plant and insect biodiversity on the Thousand-Island-Lake islands in China), and will have much freedom to develop their own research projects. Ph.D. students in our department are provided with competitive stipends, in the forms of fellowships, research assistantships, and teaching assistantships. Please feel free to contact me (lin.ji...@biology.gatech.edu) if you have any questions. Our graduate application website is at http://www.biology.gatech.edu/graduate/prospective-students. Application deadline is December 16, 2016.
