PhD student (f/m/d)

The Forest Dynamics research unit, which investigates the effects of environmental changes in forest ecosystems, is looking for a communicative person to join the Ecosystem Ecology group for a fixed-term period of four years as a

PhD student (f/m/d)

You will be responsible for planning and carrying out experiments in the field and under controlled conditions in the SNF funded project “Linking carbon source-sink dynamics to autumn phenology: Predicting tree growth rhythms in temperature and boreal forests”. You will analyse the interaction between carbon balance and phenology by applying various ecophysiological and biochemical methods and large-scale data analyses. You will carry out statistical and mechanistic modelling approaches. Finally, you will be responsible for publishing results in scientific journals.

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