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Join the lab!
Interested students are welcome to participate in the research conducted in our lab throughout the year. Open PhD and Postdoc positions will be announced at this page. We offer different topics for bachelor and master theses and also welcome your ideas and suggestions for other thesis topics. Please find a selection of topics listed or request further topics by contacting Prof. Nico Eisenhauer.
Promotionsprojekt „Trockenes Grünland“
Haben Sie einen Master-Abschluss in der Ökologie (oder in einem verwandten biologischen Teilgebiet) und möchten den Einfluss von extremen Dürre-Ereignissen auf Ökosysteme erforschen und zu diesem Thema auch promovieren? Suchen Sie nach einer Möglichkeit, unter sehr guter fachlicher Betreuung einen eigenen Projektantrag für eine solche Promotionsstelle an die Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) zu richten?
Wir – Prof. Nico Eisenhauer (iDiv Leipzig: Experimentelle Interaktionsökologie) und Dr. Harald Auge (UFZ Halle: Experimentelle Ökologie von Populationen und Lebensgemeinschaften) – möchten Sie gern dabei unterstützen, einen solchen DBU-Antrag anzufertigen, und möchten Ihre Promotionsarbeit bei einer Bewilligung dieses Antrags auch betreuen.
Mehr Infos finden Sie hier.
Humboldt postdoc fellowship
For this second round of candidates (2022), there are three main topics:
1) The candidate should be interested in synthesizing/modelling global data on soil biodiversity, carbon cycling, and soil-biosphere-atmosphere interactions (context: e.g. Soil BON; https://geobon.org/bons/thematic-bon/soil-bon/); or
2) The candidate should be interested in plant-mycorrhizae interactions and work in the broad context of the MyDiv Experiment (https://www.idiv.de/de/research/platforms-and-networks/mydiv.html) in TreeDivNet (https://treedivnet.ugent.be/); or
3) The candidate should be interested in biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning with a focus on plant-soil interactions in the broad context of the Jena Experiment (http://the-jena-experiment.de/) on mechanisms underlying long-term biodiversity effects on ecosystem functioning (https://riojournal.com/article/47042/).
Please find more info here.
Bachelor theses
We offer many topics for bachelor and master theses in our working group. Finding the right topic is not easy and we are happy to introduce our topics to you in more detail or discuss further ideas.
Title: Understory vegetation effect on air temperature
Student profile: Interested in ecology, interested in forest ecology and climate.
Thesis profile: Data extraction, analysis and modelling. No lab or field work.
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time.
Language: English
Contact: Remy Beugnon
PDF with details
Title: Soil biodiversity change: extent, consequences, and sustainability
Student profile: Interested in soil biodiversity change
Thesis profile: Literature synthesis
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time
Language: English and German
Related to the project/more general information: Faktencheck - Artenvielfalt
Contact: Christian.Ristok@idiv.de
PDF with details
Title: Impacts of mycorrhizal fungi on leaf pathogen and herbivory
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Lab and field work, plant data
Start / Timeframe: Sampling starts in September 2022
Language: English
Related to the project/more general information: MyDiv
Contact: Shan Luo
PDF with details
Title: Manipulation of soil biodiversity to investigate soil ecosystem functioning
Student profile: Likes lab work and to try things out, wants to develop own hypotheses
Thesis profile: Lab work such as microscopy work and a pot experiment in a climate chamber
Start / Timeframe: Can start at any time
Language: English or German
Contact: Simone Cesarz
PDF with details
Title: Functional diversity of soil microorganisms
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Lab and field work, working with soil, SIR method
Start / Timeframe: Sampling can take place end of September 2022 or 2023, attendance during field sampling not necessary
Language: English or German
Related to the project/more general information: BETA4 / BETAFOR
Contact: Simone Cesarz
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Title: Impacts of earthworm invasion on above- and belowground invertebrate communities in North American forest ecosystems
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Mainly working on existing data, datset can be chosen
Start / Timeframe: Can start at any time
Language: English or German
Related to the project/more general information: Ecoworm
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with more details
Title: Exploring length-dry body mass regressions and the relationship between dry and fresh body mass for temperate arthropods
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Microscopy work and stats, options for ging to Indonesia can be discussed
Start / Timeframe: Sampling starts in September 2022
Language: English or German
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with more details
Master theses
We offer many topics for bachelor and master theses in our working group. Finding the right topic is not easy and we are happy to introduce our topics to you in more detail or discuss further ideas.
Title: Understory vegetation effect on air temperature
Student profile: Interested in ecology, interested in forest ecology and climate.
Thesis profile: Data extraction, analysis and modelling. No lab or field work.
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time.
Language: English
Contact: Remy Beugnon
PDF with details
Title: Modelling soil microbial carbon dynamics in Germany
Student profile: Interested in ecology. Willing to learn statistics and computational methods.
Thesis profile: Data analysis and modelling using existing data. No lab or field work.
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time.
Language: English
Contact: Guillaume Patoine
PDF with details
Title: Über 30 Jahre Bodendauerbeobachtung in Deutschland: Eine Trendanalyse der Bodenbiota
Student profile: Interesse an Bodenbiodiversität und Datensynthese
Thesis profile: Datensynthese und Zeitreihene-Analyse
Start / Timeframe: ab Oktober 2022
Language: Deutsch
Related to the project/more general information: Faktencheck - Artenvielfalt
Contact: Christian Ristok
PDF with details
Title: Consequences of plant and soil history on leaf litter decomposition
Student profile: Interested in BEF research and likes lab work
Thesis profile: Lab work, soil microbial activity, phenolics
Start / Timeframe: October 2022 (or later date)
Language: English and German
Related to the project/more general information: Ecotron / JenaTron
Contact: Christian Ristok
PDF with details
Title: Soil biodiversity change: extent, consequences, and sustainability
Student profile: Interested in soil biodiversity change
Thesis profile: Literature synthesis
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time
Language: English and German
Related to the project/more general information: Faktencheck - Artenvielfalt
Contact: Christian.Ristok@idiv.de
PDF with details
Title: Determinants of Microbial Respiration and Biomass across Global Drylands
Student profile: likes/knows to play with large data sets, not afraid of statistics
Thesis profile: no lab work, data is ready. Thesis can be done 100% remotely
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time
Language: English
Related to the project/more general information: BIODESERT
Contact: Nico Eisenhauer
PDF with details
Title: Wissenstand zur urbanen Bodenbiodiversität in Deutschland
Student profile: Interest in bridging soil biodiversity, urban ecology and politics
Thesis profile: Systematic literature search
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time
Language: German
Related to the project/more general information: Faktencheck
Contact: Christian Ristok
PDF with details
Title: Impacts of mycorrhizal fungi on leaf pathogen and herbivory
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Lab and field work, plant data
Start / Timeframe: Sampling starts in September 2022
Language: English
Related to the project/more general information: MyDiv
Contact: Shan Luo
PDF with details
Title: Manipulation of soil biodiversity to investigate soil ecosystem functioning
Student profile: Likes lab work and to try things out, wants to develop own hypotheses
Thesis profile: Lab work such as microscopy work and a pot experiment in a climate chamber
Start / Timeframe: Can start at any time
Language: English or German
Contact: Simone Cesarz
PDFwith details
Title: Functional diversity of soil microorganisms
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Lab and field work, working with soil, SIR method
Start / Timeframe: Sampling can take place end of September 2022 or 2023, attendance during field sampling not necessary
Language: English or German
Related to the project/more general information: BETA4 / BETAFOR
Contact: Simone Cesarz
PDF with details
Title: Impacts of earthworm invasion on above- and belowground invertebrate communities in North American forest ecosystems
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Mainly working on existing data, datset can be chosen
Start / Timeframe: Can start at any time
Language: English or German
Related to the project/more general information: Ecoworm
Contact: Malte Jochum
PDF with more details
Title: Exploring length-dry body mass regressions and the relationship between dry and fresh body mass for temperate arthropods
Student profile: Likes lab work and wants to learn statistical methods
Thesis profile: Microscopy work and stats, options for ging to Indonesia can be discussed
Start / Timeframe: Sampling starts in September 2022
Language: English or German
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with more details
Title: Effects of nutrient enrichment and top-predator size structure on energy flux in a marine benthic community
Student profile: Interest in climate change impacts ond biodiversity and ecosystem functioing
Thesis profile: All data is ready, no lab work, calculation of energy fluxes, apllying SEMs
Start / Timeframe: Sampling starts in September 2022
Language: English or German
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with details
Title: Investigating joint effects of climate and predation on above-belowground forest ecosystems
Student profile: likes/knows to play with large data sets, not afraid of statistics
Thesis profile: no lab work, data is ready
Start / Timeframe: The thesis can start at any time
Language: English or German
Related to the project/more general information:Ecotron
Contact:Malte Jochum
PDF with details
