For full consideration send in all materials by: 31.10.2106 This approx. 5-year position is offered within the ERC Advanced Grant Project „Gradual and abrupt environmental change: concurrent physiological, evolutionary and community composition shifts“. A short summary is available online: https://rilliglab.wordpress.com/research-2/research/gradual_change-erc-advanced-grant/
Position description Carrying out experimental work in an ERC-funded project at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. These experiments have an eco-evolutionary focus and are mainly conceptualized as microcosm experiments with saprobic soil fungi. It is planned to examine the effects of various global change factors in experiments with varying degrees of complexity; the main factor to be examined is increasing temperature. The main focus is on saprobic fungi and their communities, as well as pertinent ecosystem processes. It is additionally envisaged to carry out a garden or greenhouse experiment on these questions. The incumbent is also invited to actively contribute to concept development in questions surrounding the proposal topic. We are looking for a person who brings the following to the table: - Interested in working in a team - Publications in experimental microbial community ecology, ideally with fungi (but bacteria would also be fine) - Experience with the logistics of complex microcosm experiments - Excellent knowledge of statistics (with R) - Experience with high-throughput Sequenzierung (e.g. Illumina MiSeq) and pertinent bioinformatics Applicants must have completed Ph.D. Please send your application materials (cv, publication list, names of referees, cover letter) by 31.10.2016 as one pdf to Matthias Rillig, [email protected] using “ERC-experimental” in the email subject line. Start date ideally is January 2017. -- Prof. Dr. Matthias C. Rillig Freie Universitaet Berlin Institut fuer Biologie/ DCPS Plant Ecology Altensteinstr. 6 D- 14195 Berlin, Germany ++49 (0)30 838-53165 (Direct) -53149 (M. Eltohami) Skype: mrillig http://rilliglab.wordpress.com Twitter @mrillig
