The Black College Scholarships Amsterdam Global Change Institute (AgCI) is a new institute at the Free University of Amsterdam, to promote excellence and innovation in interdisciplinary research on environmental goals
Global change and sustainability. It combines five existing institutes and departments in three faculties of the earth and life, economics and social sciences at the university. Six new positions are created after the promotion in the first phase of the Institute to develop new and promising research lines. Postdocs are together in interdisciplinary collaboration with established researchers and academics from around the AgCI.
The Black College Scholarships successful candidate will have a PhD in ecology, environmental or land with a background in research on biogeochemical processes and functional relationships in ecosystems. Ideally, the candidate, his knowledge of the physiology of plants with either earth science or ecology would connect to. Besides a solid conceptual understanding, experience is the statistical analysis of large databases that often gathers in relevant areas of research is essential. The Black College Scholarships specific research project carried out depending on the interest and expertise of the candidate. However, the focus will be on the relationship between plant traits to stream hydrology data or for the use of global models.
Application deadline: 1 June 2011
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