TER has an open 4-year Group Leader Position for an exceptional early career scientist. We are looking for highly qualified and ambitious candidates, who have recently completed their PhD and wish to establish an ...
Congratulations to Julia, who successfully defended her MSc thesis on Monday, September 28th 2020. Her thesis on “Life in a Jar – How to Build Synthetic Soil” was very well received.
Excellent, Julia!
The Doctoral School in Microbiology and Environmental Sciences offers 15 fully funded PhD positions in diverse research areas ranging from molecular microbiology, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, computational and evolutionary biology to environmental geosciences. More information and online application at ...
Congratulations to Carolina and Chupei, who successfully defended their MSc thesis on Thursday August 20th. Their theses on “Long-term responses of soil microbial activities to soil warming in a temperate forest demonstrate strong changes in element cycling and microbial ...
We are very happy that Hannes will join the staff of TER as a Senior Scientist on a permanent contract. He will strengthen our expertise in isotope application in microbial ecology. Congratulations, Hannes!
A new concept, put forward by an interdisciplinary group of soil scientists and mathematical modellers looks at soil carbon persistence through the lens of functional complexity of the soil microbial ecosystem – the interplay between time and space in ...
As global temperatures continue to rise, a key uncertainty of climate projection is the microbial decomposition of vast organic carbon stocks in thawing permafrost soils. Decomposition rates can accelerate up to fourfold in the presence of plant roots, and this ...
Jörg Schnecker has been granted approval for a new project “Death – The elusive side of microbial turnover in soil” within the framework of the Austrian Science Fund 1000 Ideas Programme.
Hannes Schmidt, PostDoc at TER, has been officially welcomed as the Committee Chair of the “Soil Biology, Microbiology and Biodiversity” section of the European Geosciences Union (EGU). Together with Committee Members Prof. Ellen Kandeler (Universität Hohenheim, Germany) and Dr. Edith ...
