The Working Group Soil Science and Soil Resources at the Faculty of Geosciences, Ruhr University Bochum, is looking for a PhD student (m/f/d) within the DFG Priority Program (SPP) "SoilSystems" for a three-year position (25.8895 hours/week, TVL E13).

The key concept of the SPP understands soil systems, i.e. their biodiversity and ecological functions, as controlled by energy and material flows. Energy is stored in the form of soil organic matter, including bio- and necromass, and its availability is subject to thermodynamic principles. The aim of the SPP is to integrate thermodynamic descriptions into processes of soil carbon turnover to develop a systemic understanding of energy and matter fluxes and their relation to biota, dead soil components and environmental conditions as boundary conditions.

Applications are open until March 3, 2025.

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