Statistical modeler to develop ML-models to estimate sand fly-triggered health infection risk liked to hydro-climatic extremes (droughts and floods)

The Department Community Ecology is looking for a HiWi to help annotate datasets.

This project aims to investigate the metabolic dynamics at the subcellular level. Within the project, the technical assistant will join an international team of young and dynamic scientists with expertise in metabolism, physics, material science and chemical imaging.

We are offering a Postdoctoral position in the UFZ department of Physiological Diversity, which is also a core group at www.idiv.de, the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research located in Leipzig Germany.

UFZ and ScaDS.AI are searching for a postdoc applying innovative data science approaches to advance climate impact research.

Data Scientist / Software-Engineer for Applications in Geosciences (f/m/x)

New treatment processes are being developed to remove highly polar pollutants from drinking water. To support this effort we are seeking a

We are looking for a scientific assistant (d/m/w) to carry out the planned project with the analysis of biogenic volatile organic compounds (isoprene, monoterpenes, sesquiterpenes and selected active substances) at forest sites using thermodesorption gas chromatography mass spectrometry and sensor techniques, in this case ion mobility spectrometry.

Job advertisement for group leader position tenure track

We are seeking an enthusiastic person to fill a postdoc position funded by the BMBF Nachwuchsgruppenprojekt BioPV4H2. The candidate will be expected and supported to be qualified for the next scientific career step during the funding period.

PhD position within the DFG-funded project “SiMBal 2.0 - Quantifying co-culture performance as a function of condition-dependent inter-cell mass exchange” is devoted to transferring the basic principles of biochemical engineering to microscale dimensions.

Within the FINEST project, a doctoral position is available for the sub-project MICROPLASTICS, which will address the bacterial conversion of synthetic polymer (plastics) fractions of fine-grained residues (microplastics) to yield valuable products and/or inert residues for safe deposition. In the PhD project, innovative bacterial biocatalysts acting on polymers and/or polymer additives will be isolated and characterised with respect to their catalytic performance. Bacterial strains to be newly isolated from soils taken from sites rich in brittle plastic waste, and already available bacterial strains will be investigated. Bacteria will be characterised physiologically, biochemically and genomically. The identification of biochemical tools the bacteria use for plastic degradation will be carried out with pure model polymers. Later, the behaviour with organic (polymer) fractions of real shredder fines will be tested in degradation experiments.

PhD Researcher (f/m/x) at the Department of Environmental Microbiology, subject: Fungal degradation of synthetic polymers and polymer-related additives.

Within the framework of the Helmholtz sustainability challenge "FINEST - Use and management of finest particulate anthropogenic material flows in a sustainable circular economy" we are looking for a highly motivated PhD student for research and development work on enzymatic degradation of microplastics.

About QTOX
Chemical risk assessment typically involves extrapolation of effects observed in-vitro and in-vivo under laboratory conditions to predictions of effects at the ecosystem level. This is a very challenging task and current extrapolation models have limitations, notably due to a number of ecological processes that are disregarded by the models and the paucity of data for parameterisation and validation. QTOX will develop mechanistic knowledge and data-efficient modelling tools to bridge the gap between standard toxicity data (typically acute effects of single chemicals) and ecologically relevant endpoints arising from chronic, time variable exposures to chemical mixtures. The results will be achieved through an interdisciplinary and intersectoral research and training program in which 10 doctoral candidates will characterise the mechanistic processes describing the successive events from exposure to ecosystem-level effects and develop models for extrapolation of adverse effects across levels of biological organization under environmentally realistic conditions. Notably, the effects of chemical mixtures, dynamic exposure conditions, and their interaction with climate change scenarios will be characterised in a series of mesocosm experiments at three sites in central and southern Europe. The mesocosm work will serve as a uniting training element and a rich source of data for testing and validating the modelling framework. QTOX will produce an open access toolbox for quantitative extrapolations in ecotoxicology and a cohort of researchers equipped with the knowledge and skills necessary to implement and develop rigorous approaches for predicting adverse effects of chemicals.

We are seeking an enthusiastic person to fill a Phd position (65% TVöD 13) funded by the BMBF Nachwuchsgruppenprojekt BioPV4H2. The candidate will be supervised by a strong interdiscinplinary team, and supported for skills training and network development.

We are seeking an enthusiastic person to fill a Phd position (65% TVöD 13) funded by the BMBF Nachwuchsgruppenprojekt BioPV4H2. The candidate will be supervised by a strong interdiscinplinary team, and supported for skills training and network development.

The PhD will compile suitable models for ecosystem services in German agricultural landscapes in order to identify impacts on their provisioning due to the application of different management strategies.

PhD Researcher (f/m/x) in the area of the analysis farmers’ behavioural responses to agri-environmental policy as part of the junior research group “AgriScape”.

PhD Researcher (f/m/x) in the area of economic valuation of ecosystem services and biodiversity in agricultural landscapes as part of the junior research group “AgriScape”.

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

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The team Research Data Management (RDM) is offering to supervise master thesis in the field of research data management.