Studierende finden an der ETH Zürich ein Umfeld, das eigenständiges Denken fördert, Forschende ein Klima, das zu Spitzenleistungen inspiriert.
We seek to fill a PhD position to study aerosol microbiomes at the land-sea interface along the European coast. The position will be based at ETH Zürich, Switzerland and provides great opportunities to work as part of a European collaborative project and receive interdisciplinary training in ocean-atmosphere research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Microbes perform functions essential for diverse ecosystem services and health. They impact key climatological processes such as cloud formation and precipitation in the atmosphere. Atmospheric transport is known to mediate the exchange of microorganisms within and between terrestrial and marine environments. However, airborne microbial communities remain the least studied microbiome on Earth, especially in remote areas such as the open oceans. Processes at the ocean-atmosphere interface are of particular importance, given that they underpin the distribution of airborne marine microbes, which may affect ecosystem structure and health even thousands of kilometres away from their source. To advance our understanding, it is thus essential to establish an inventory of airborne marine microbes and study the factors that shape their diversity, drive their emission, and project their dispersal across space.
The project aims to:
The project is part of a large, international research collaboration, which includes the sampling along the European coastline (the expedition) coordinated by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory. The PhD candidate will be part of the , the joint between the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, and collaborate with researchers at the .
Required qualifications:
The following additional qualifications may be advantageous:
You will work within a vibrant, inter-institutional, highly-collaborative research environment with ample opportunities for training, exchange of expertise and networking.
29-02-2024
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