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UniBE offers the opportunity to deliver top performance and test your skills against the best. This PhD position is placed within the Graduate School of Climate Sciences at Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR) and draws on supervisory expertise bridging physical geography, ecosystem science, vegetation modelling, and climate science.

Tasks

  • Use the BiomeEP model and a diversity of ecosystem data to understand responses of growth and mortality to effects of rising VPD and other environmental changes.
  • Conduct methods development for model-data integration based on data from ecosystem manipulation experiments, continuous dendrometer measurements, sap flow measurements, tree-ring width archives, and forest inventories.
  • Implement recently developed eco-evolutionary optimality-based modelling approaches for simulating acclimation of plant architectural and metabolic traits to a changing hydroclimate, and extend this theoretical paradigm to additional processes.
  • Build on and integrate into the UP-SCALE project, collaborating closely with project partners.
  • Develop reliable and reusable code, actively participate and regularly exchange as a group member based in Bern.
  • Present at national and international conferences and publish PhD research in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

Requirements

  • Hold a MSc degree in natural sciences, mathematics, or engineering.
  • Demonstrate proficient English written and oral skills.
  • Show excellent analytical and numerical skills.
  • Experience with programming and other data science methods is an asset.
  • Have an open and collaborative mentality for the development of computational infrastructure.

Benefits

  • Be part of a small group with a strong collaborative philosophy.
  • Benefit from a leading academic environment.
  • Participate in international collaboration within the UP-SCALE project.
  • Enjoy the excellent quality of life in Switzerland.
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Universität Bern ist eine staatliche Hochschule des Kantons Bern und bietet Studiengänge in zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Fachrichtungen an. Die Universität betreibt Lehre, Forschung und Weiterbildung und vermittelt Studierenden wissenschaftliche Methoden sowie fachliche Kenntnisse. Mit mehreren Fakultäten und Instituten deckt sie ein breites Spektrum an Disziplinen ab und arbeitet mit nationalen und internationalen Forschungs- und Bildungseinrichtungen zusammen.
Das Team

The group has a strong collaborative philosophy and is based in Bern, working closely with project partners within the UP-SCALE project.

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