12th sDiv call - full proposal deadline: 14 June 2024
sDiv Calls for Early Career Researcher Working Groups (ECR) and Modular Synthesis Projects (SynFlex)
This call is for projects starting in 2025. Funding cannot be guaranteed after September 2024. This is subject to the approval of iDiv funding beyond the DFG funding.
What?
- All topics and questions related to biodiversity synthesis (incl. social sciences etc) are welcome.
- Funding is available for working groups lead by Early Career Researchers (ECR call) & Synthesis Projects being allowed to use other approaches than working groups (SynFlex)
- With this call, we would again like to encourage proposals that engage genuinely with topics and researchers from under-represented regions (see list here)
- PLEASE NOTE: No Phd student or PostDoc salaries are funded in this call
When?
- Pre proposal deadline: 12 March 2024, 11:59 PM CET via the iDiv application portal*.
- Decision made begin of April 2024
- Full proposal submission upon invitation before 14 June 2024, 11:59 PM CET via the iDiv application portal* as PDF file using the provided templates.
- Decision made at the end of August 2024
Rules?
- Each proposal needs to involve at least one iDiv member (full & associated members are eligible). Please be pro-active in communicating with suitable project partners (assistance by the sDiv head Marten Winter if needed).
* Registration is required to create your application. It is possible to safe and change data at any time until the final submission, if required fields are filled in. Please contact sDiv for assistance.
Call for Early Career Researcher Working Groups (ECR) Open to Early Career Reseachers | Call for Modular Synthesis Projects (SynFlex) Open for all scientist worldwide for modular flexible |
Documents | Documents |
General Information Material
- General information about the sDiv framework (PDF)
- Call Description - one pager (PDF)
- iDiv Data & Code Sharing Policy (PDF)
sDiv Postdoc Call - Funded Projects Announcement
Following our latest Postdoc Call, sDiv has received has received 27 proposals for individual postdoc projects (Call A) and 10 proposals for postdocs for already funded sDiv projects (Call B). We received many proposals of very high scientific quality and exciting new ideas. After intense discussions of the sDiv Board and the given limitations of our budget in 2024, it was decided to support two individual postdocs and two postdocs associated with an already funded sDiv project.
Congratulations to our new sDiv postdocs - we are very much looking forward to welcome you to our team!
Funded individual postdoc:
Anne-Céline Granjon
Title: "Unraveling the relationship between genetic diversity, the latitudinal gradient in biodiversity, and life-history strategies"
Involved iDiv Members: Michael Gerth, Chloé Schmidt and Jonathan Chase
Ana Carolina Antunes
Title: "AmazonFlux: exploring human impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across the Amazon forest"
Involved iDiv Members: Ulrich Brose, Henrique Pereira, Carsten Meyer,
Associated member: Talita Ferreira Amado
Funded postdoc associated to an already funded sDiv project:
Karl Andraczek
TItle: "Belowground plant strategies predict ecosystem functioning under climate change"
Associated with the sDiv working group sUnderfoot
Involved iDiv Member: Alexandra Weigelt, Helge Bruelheide
Clara María Arboleda Baena
TItle: "Comparative Analysis of Microbial Communities in the Global North and South: Exploring the Interplay between Data Availability and Mechanisms of Community Assembly Across Biomes"
Associated with the sDiv working group sIBTEDS
Involved iDiv Member: Birgitta König-Ries
Associated members: Stephanie Jurburg, Christian Ristok
11th Call - 9 projects funded
Within the latest call, sDiv has received 15 pre-proposals for early career working groups and 13 pre-proposals for SynFlex projects. 6 applicants for early career working groups as well as 7 applicants for SynFlex projects received a positive evaluation of their pre-proposal and were invited to hand in a full proposal.
After intensive discussions of the internal and external reviews of proposals of very high scientific quality, the sDiv Evaluation Board has decided to support 4 early career working groups, 5 SynFlex projects.
Congratulations to our new sDiv working groups and future sDiv collaborators!
Funded early career working groups
ECR11.01 sFutures
PIs:
Magda Garbowski, University of Wyoming, USA
Emma Ladouceur, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
ECR11.02 sPectra
PIs:
Shan Kothari, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
Teja Kattenborn, Leipzig University, Germany
ECR11.03 sConsume
PIs:
Fletcher Halliday, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Suz Everingham, University of Bern, Switzerland
Mayank Kohli, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
ECR11.05 sFragment
PI:
Andres Felipe Suarez Castro, Griffith University, Australia
Funded SynFlex projects
SF11.01 sTime
PIs:
Pincelli Hull, Yale University, USA
Erin Saupe, University of Oxford, UK
Marina Rillo, University of Oldenburg, Germany
ECR11.02 sIBTEDS
PIs:
Stephanie Jurburg, Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research-UFZ(Leipzig), Germany
Silvia Garaycochea, Instituto Nacional de Investigacion Agricola (INIA), Uruguay
Eva Figuerola,University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina
SF11.03 sBombus
PIs:
Brian Spiesman, Kansas State University, USA
Tiffany Knight, German Center for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Germany
Christina Grozinger, Penn State University, USA
SF11.04 sSCAT
PIs:
Alta De Vos, Centre for Sustainability Transitions, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Graeme Cumming, James Cook University, Australia
SF11.05 sARDINE
PI:
Christopher Monk, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany
General Information Material
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