PhD thesis positions for 2019-2020

22 March 2017

Job title – Impact of ozone and drought on the carbon allocation to poplar: consequences for the growth and the production of ligneous biomass

Employer : Lorraine University (UL)
Department & Research Team : UMR EEF INRA-UL, Nancy, France (PHD director : Y Jolivet); Research Unit Forest Dynamics, WSL, Birmensdorf,  Switzerland   (Co-referent : P Vollenweider)
Place of work : University of Lorraine-INRA, Nancy, France / WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland
Duration : 36 months
Salary & Working hours : 2 600€ (gross salary/month) ; 169h/month

Application deadline : 14 April 2017

Job description –  

  • Context : to improve the determination of ozone risk indicators for vegetation by taking account detoxification processes.
  • Purpose :  to provide an innovative mechanistic and integrative understanding regarding the dynamics of cellular processes leading to visible O3 injury in foliage.
  • Duties : to develop a research project including the writing and the defense of a thesis
  • Responsibilities : to conduct independently bibliographic and research work, to analyze and present results.

Requirements – 

  • Knowledge : plant biology/physiology, molecular biology
  • Skills : ability to conduct a research project and to analyze data. Good computer skills needed
  • Abilities : interdisciplinary work, laboratory work
  • Behaviors : open-mindedness, mobility, independence

Working language(s) : french and english

Application – Send the document requested by e-mail, interview after selection     Required documents: CV, transcripts (Bachelor and Master), covering letter, references

Contact –
Yves JOLIVET
UMR Ecologie et Ecophysiologie Forestières, Bd des Aiguillettes, BP 70239, 54506 Vandoeuvre les Nancy
yves.jolivet@univ-lorraine.fr

Research Team Publication –

Cabané M, Afif D, Hawkins S (2012). Adv Bot Res 61: 219-262.

Dghim, A.A., Dumont, J., Hasenfratz-Sauder, M.P., Dizengremel, P., Le Thiec, D., Jolivet, Y. (2013). Physiol Plant 148 (1):36-50.

Dumont J, Keski-Saari S, Keinanen M, Cohen D, Ningre N, Kontunen-Soppela S, Baldet P, Gibon Y, Dizengremel P, Vaultier M-N, Jolivet Y, Oksanen E, Le Thiec D (2014). Tree Physiol 34 (3): 253-266.

Günthardt-Goerg MS, Vollenweider P (2007). Environ Pollut 147: 467-488.

Jolivet Y., Bagard M., Cabané M., Vaultier MN, Gandin A, Afif D, Dizengremel P, Le Thiec D (2016). Ann For Sci 923-943

Vollenweider P, Fenn M E, Menard T, Günthardt-Goerg M, Bytnerowicz A (2013). Trees 27: 895-911.