Institut für Meteorologie und Klimaforschung Atmosphärische Umweltforschung (IMKIFU)
Do you have knowledge of land ecosystems, climate change and land use change? Do you have good quantitative and coding skills? Are you keen to apply these to address societal and ecological research challenges? If so, we can offer you to earn your PhD degree within a multidisciplinary, international research training group, with partners at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, the University of Melbourne, Australia and the University of Hohenheim, Germany.C4LaNd is a new research training group that brings together senior and doctoral researchers from the natural, social, economic and engineering sciences to address the challenges of sustainably using land for the benefit of both people and nature. You will receive a dual PhD degree from KIT and University of Melbourne, Australia, including a one-year research stay in Melbourne, Australia. Further information on C4LaNd, and the PhD positions advertised can be found at C4LaNd.earth. The PhD position ' Ecosystem and biodiversity impacts of novel land-use futures' is within the Global Land-Ecosystem Modelling Group (https://lemq.imkifu.kit.edu/) at KIT's 'Campus Alpin' in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, partnered with the Quantitative and Applied Ecology Group at Melbourne, Australia (https://qaeco.com/landing/).The overarching question of the doctoral research will be: how do different, novel land-use futures affect ecosystem state and function globally, what are implications of these for biodiversity and ecosystem services in the present day and under future climate change?Lines of research include:familiarize yourself with the LandSyMM modelling framework and in particular its ecosystem models LPJ-GUESS simulate how a range of novel future land-use changes scenarios, available from LandsyMM simulations affects ecosystem carbon cycling and a range of other ecosystem processes and servicesexplore how a range of biodiversity indicators such as species habitat availability and extinction risk would be affected by a suite of land use futuresexplore literature and other data sources to support interpretation of outputs and model evaluationdevelop ideas for model applications, simulation set-up and analysis and publicationsdocument code development and performance
Salary
Salary category 13 TV-L, depending on the fulfillment of professional and personal requirements.
Contract duration
3,5 years.
Application up to
17.05.2026
Contact person in line-management
For further information, please contact Prof. Dr. Almut Arneth (almut.arneth@kit.edu).
