Published Date: 12.12.2023.
The Grassland Sciences group is a vibrant and international working group at the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. We are looking for a reliable, enthusiastic, and highly motivated postdoc with a passion for science to join our team. Our research focuses on process- and system-understanding of the biosphere-atmosphere greenhouse gas exchange of forests and agroecosystems, in particular on their response to management and climate.
Project background
This position is embedded in a project on the Impacts of Air Pollution and Climate Extremes on the Resilience of European Forests (CERES), a collaboration with Prof. Mana Gharun at the University of Münster. We aim to improve the mechanistic understanding of how changes in tree ecophysiology in response to air pollution and climate extremes drive the forest ecosystem’s capacity to sequester carbon and its evaporative cooling. We will combine long-term deposition simulations, local meteorological measurements, existing tree level growth, and water use measurements with whole ecosystem gas exchange measurements to identify ecophysiological resistance and recovery responses to climate extremes under different air pollution along a climatic gradient in Europe. Moreover, we will use statistical (e.g., random forest, generalised additive models) and process-based (e.g., SPA) models to project future forest responses to global change drivers.
Job description
Your main tasks will include:
- Compilation of existing, large data sets across Europe
- Identification of forest resistance and resilience to deposition and climate extremes
- Linking tree level with forest level functioning for 20+ forest sites in Europe using different approaches, and
- Prediction of future forest functioning under climate extremes using a range of modelling techniques
- Assistance in teaching at Bachelor´s and Master´s levels (in English), depending on research experience, and support in student supervision
The position is funded for up to three years. Salary and social benefits are provided according to ETH Zurich rules.The starting date is preferentially 1 April 2024.
Your profile
- Applicants must hold a PhD degree with a strong proven research background in micrometeorology, greenhouse gas exchange, tree and/or ecosystem physiology
- Relevant research experience can be based on experiments (field or controlled conditions), observations or modelling
- Excellent command of large data analyses as well as very good English language skills are mandatory
- Experiences in teaching and student supervision are a plus
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Curious? So are we.
We look forward to receiving your online application including the following documents:
- Letter of motivation
- CV with publication list
- Transcripts of Bachelor’s, Master’s and PhD studies
- Contact information of two referees
We will start interviewing candidates in mid-February 2024. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Please note that we exclusively accept applications submitted through our online application portal. Applications via email or postal services will not be considered.
For further information about the Grassland Sciences group please visit our website. Questions regarding the position should be directed to Prof. Dr. Nina Buchmann by email: [email protected] (no applications).
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