PhD in Soil Health, Biodiversity and Function in Agrivoltaic Sheep Farming Systems University of Limerick in Ireland

This PhD project, “Restoring soil health: Identifying key drivers and feedbacks among biological, chemical, and physical processes,” explores how different soil properties interact to influence soil function across agricultural landscapes. The research will bring together biological, chemical, and physical perspectives on soil health. By identifying key drivers and feedbacks among these processes, the project aims to improve understanding of how agricultural soils function and how soil health ca...

The International Max Planck Research School for Global Biogeochemical Cycles (IMPRS-gBGC) is a doctoral programme at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, offered in cooperation with Friedrich Schiller University Jena . It focuses on the fundamental processes that move carbon, oxygen and nitrogen between land, ocean and atmosphere, and on how these cycles respond to climate change and human activity. PhD researchers join an international, structured research environment and work...

PhD opportunity at The University of Edinburgh, School of GeoSciences in soil carbon change and fungal-bacterial mechanisms in tree-planted upland ecosystems . This project sits at the intersection of microbial ecology , environmental science , biology , and earth science , with a strong focus on climate and environmental sustainability. The post is supervised by Dr Lorna Street , with CASE partner Forest Research supervisors Dr Mike Perks and Dr Elena Vanguelova . The opportunity is funded by N...

MSc opportunity at the University of Guelph in the School of Environmental Sciences (SES), located in Guelph, Ontario, Canada . This thesis-based MSc project focuses on microplastics in agricultural soils , with particular attention to how microplastics enter soils through municipal composts and biosolids . The research aims to develop and validate innovative methods for detecting and characterizing microplastics by combining simultaneous thermal analysis (STA–FTIR) and FTIR microscopy . A key g...

University College Cork invites applications for a 28-month postdoctoral position in Soil Ecology within the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences. The researcher will join the Microbiome and Soil Health Lab and contribute to the Horizon Europe-funded SOILRES project, “SoilRes: Multi-Faceted Biodiversity Integration for A Healthy Soil and Resilient Crop Management.” SOILRES brings together agricultural scientists, farmers, and innovators to develop practical approaches for regen...