PhD in Molecular Ecology

This PhD position is offered at ETH Zurich within the Sustainable Agroecosystems (SAE) group in the Department of Environmental Systems Science and the Surface Earth Evolution (SEE) group in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences./nThe SNSF-funded project “Constraining tropical wetland greenhouse gas production today and through time: insights from Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe, Democratic Republic of Congo (LacMai)” aims to constrain climatic and anthropogenic controls on greenhouse-gas (i.e., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide) emissions in the world’s largest tropical wetland./nThe PhD student will lead the microbial component: sampling greenhouse gases, peatland soils, and lake sediments in DR Congo and analyzing them using isotopes, biomarkers, and DNA-based methods to identify microbial drivers and reconstruct changes over the Holocene.