October 27, 2021
We are looking for a motivated PhD candidate to apply for PhD funding from regional (Severo Ochoa) and national (FPU) calls to join our research group on Arctic terrestrial ecology as a doctoral student. The student would be registered at University of Oviedo, Asturias, and based at the Biodiversity Research Institute in Mieres. However, there would be close collaborative links with The Autonomous University of Barcelona (Dr Jordi Bartolomé Filella) and Stockholm University, Sweden (Dr Karin Norén).
The project would use existing data on vascular plants, arthropods and vertebrates from high arctic Greenland to evaluate the consequences of local and regional community assembly processes on the structure of trophic interactions, and interpret the results from a climate change perspective. The work will be primarily laboratory and data driven, but with opportunities for some additional field work during the PhD period. Since the project is an international collaboration, good communication skills in English will be required. Good GIS and R skills will be a benefit. We are looking for students with at least an 8.0 grade point average, or equivalent in terms of foreign candidates. Citizens from all EU countries would be eligible, but all foreign applicants need to hold a degree that allow them access to PhD studies in their home country at the time of application.
Please send a brief letter of interest an a CV in English as pdf files to Fredrik Dalerum (fredrik.dalerum@csic.es), who can also be contacted for any questions. We will keep this solicitation open until a suitable candidate has been identified.