PhD Opportunities in Freshwater Ecology in Luxembourg

The Olden Lab at the University of British Columbia’s Vancouver campus is offering six to eight funded Master’s and PhD openings for Fall 2027 in freshwater conservation and ecology . The opportunities are centered on research addressing freshwater ecosystems and conservation. Students will join the Olden Lab and develop research interests within the lab’s freshwater ecology and conservation environment, working under the supervision of Julian Olden. The lab provides an opportunity to undertake ...

Aalborg University is offering a three-year PhD stipend in Predicting Terrestrial Ecosystem Responses to Changing Arctic Catchments . The project is based in the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience and forms part of the interdisciplinary From Catchment to Coast research project. The PhD will examine how climate warming changes terrestrial ecosystem structure and biogeochemical processes, and how those changes affect downstream freshwater and marine environments. The research will follow a nat...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant. International students are eligible up to 30% of the cohort, but additional moving/residing costs in the UK are not covered.] This PhD studentship sits within a biodiversity-focused project that aims to build a digital twin for freshwater lake ecosystems , using environmental data and sediment-core environmenta...

[Funded by the Natural Environment Research Council through the CENTA3 DLA. Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship addresses a major question in antimicrobial resistance research: whether low antibiotic concentrations in the environment can select for resistance under realistic natural conditions. The project is designed around a combination of laboratory experiments, mathematical modelling, and environmental...

This PhD position is based at the Department of Aquatic Resources at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU Aqua) and focuses on the management and conservation of critically endangered fish, with a particular emphasis on eel ( Anguilla ). The project addresses key knowledge gaps around trap and transport (T&T) , a management method used to support fish migration in river systems with barriers and to reduce turbine mortality for downstream-moving fish. The doctoral project is desig...

A PhD position in biology with specialisation in aquatic ecology is available at the Department of Aquatic Resources (SLU Aqua) at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. The project addresses the management and conservation of critically endangered fishes, with a particular focus on Anguillid eels . The doctoral research is centred on Trap and Transport (T&T) , a method used in fragmented river systems to help fish continue migration and to reduce mortality associated with hydropower t...

This PhD project at Uppsala University is based in the Department of Ecology and Genetics within the Limnology program at the Evolutionary Biology Centre (EBC) . The project focuses on phytoplankton succession in lakes and how these communities respond to environmental change. The student will work on process-based biogeochemical and dynamical modelling to study the drivers of seasonal changes in phytoplankton community composition. The research examines how physical and chemical conditions, pre...

[Funded through the CENTA3 DLA and the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC). Funding covers an annual stipend, tuition fees at home-fee level, and a Research Training Support Grant.] This PhD studentship will investigate how micro- and nanoplastics disrupt algal physiology, plankton community structure, trophic transfer, and carbon sequestration in aquatic ecosystems. The project addresses an urgent gap in understanding how plastic particles influence the organisms that underpin marine fo...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...