Intensive use of resources, morphological changes and climate change pose a major challenge for our river ecosystems, which are interconnected in many ways with their surrounding landscape.

Environmental monitoring is essential for improving the understanding of environmental processes. We are looking for you to further develop concepts for the collection of monitoring data as well as the enrichment with suitable metadata within the projects CityCLIM and ALAMEDA.

For the new EU funded Bio Value project we are looking for a Postdoc/ Scientist (f/m/x) with experience in biodiversity policy and/or multi-level governance, Knowledge on policy instrument analysis, the EU renewed sustainable financing strategy and the Taxonomy regulation

UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Ecosystem Services, in collaboration with the German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig offers the following position:

Post-doctorate research project on
How can agroecology contribute to sustainable agriculture, Sustainable Development and the Green Deal

within the project:
Agroecology-TRANSECT: Trans-disciplinary approaches for systemic economic, ecological and climate change transitions

The postdoc will develop joint research in collaboration with one postdoc fellow and 2 PhD students based in Leipzig, Toulouse (France) and Rockstock (Germany), in cooperation with Dr. Clelia Sirarmi (INRAE) and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lakner, University of Rockstock, Germany.

Scientific staff (m/f/x, TvöD EG 13, 100%)
Subject/Project title: Climate Adaptation Digital Twins (CATs) – user engagement

The capacity of freshwater resources to maintain biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem functions has been exceeded in many places following human impacts.

The Physiological Diversity Department is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and reliable scientist (f/m/x) to work within our international team

The department Solar Materials is seeking a postdoc in metabolic modelling starting 01.09.2022. The position should strengthen our in silico team focusing on quantitative description of photobiotechnological processes and microbial catalysts.

For the new EbA-Agri project we are looking for two researchers (f/m/x) to work on the transformations towards sustainable agri-food systems in Latin America

In the framework of a new initiative on hydrogen production from cyanobacteria (H2-Saxony), the Department of Solar Materials is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher (d/m/w) Microbial Metabolic Analysis to start on 1st September 2022.

Looking for Model Developer for the simulation of multiphase reactive transport process

We offer a PhD position (f/m/x) in our department soil ecology on "Spatial and temporal analysis of maize root gene expression to elucidate how the maize interacts with the rhizosphere microbiome and the environment"

PhD position within the project “Chip-based cultivation and analysis of photohydrogen production in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803” is devoted
to connecting the condition-dependent reactivity of a hydrogen-producing cyanobacterial photobiocatalyst with extracellular reaction parameters.

The capacity of freshwater resources to maintain biodiversity and provide essential ecosystem functions has been exceeded in many places following human impacts.

UFZ – Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Department Ecosystem Services, in collaboration with the German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig offers the following position:

Doctorate student on
Analysing the impacts of the Common Agricultural Policy on Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and people

within the project:
Agroecology-TRANSECT: Trans-disciplinary approaches for systemic economic, ecological and climate change transitions

The candidate will develop research in collaboration with 2 postdoc fellows and one PhD student, based in Leipzig, Tolouse (France) and Rockstock (Germany) in collaborations with Dr. Clelia Sirami (INRAE) and Prof. Dr. Sebastian Lakner (University of Rockstock).

The working group “Applied Biocatalysis” (Department Solar Materials) at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH - UFZ in Leipzig offers a PhD position. The PhD work will contribute to the development of hydrogen producing cyanobacteria making use of photosynthetic water oxidation to fuel hydrogen production with the necessary reduction equivalents.

PhD position (m/f/d) to survey and analyse the development of vegetation and its ecosystem functions in glacier forelands of the Alps, starting 1.10.2022 in the Department of Community Ecology

Thesis/Student assistant (m/f/d) – Topic: Understanding the interaction of chemical and non-chemical stressors in freshwater ecosystems.