The position with the possibility of a doctorate is to be filled as part of the DFG-funded project "Scaling of biochemical and hydraulic controls on nitrate uptake and removal in streams". The project aims to investigate the processes that control nitrate uptake in medium-sized watercourses. Turnover rates of nitrogen due to assimilatory uptake by phototrophic organisms (N uptake) and dissimilatory uptake (N removal) by heterotrophic bacteria in streams and their sediments are investigated. In particular, we analyze the role of river hydraulics and riverbed morphology as important but comparatively unexplored influencing factors. The project will be carried out jointly with the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UfZ) in Magdeburg, where a second PhD position with complementary tasks will be filled.

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RPTU stands for diversity among all employees. We welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethnic and social origin, age, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation or identity. Preference will be given to severely disabled persons and persons equivalent to them if they have the appropriate qualifications and suitability.

The RPTU aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented. Applications from scientists from abroad are explicitly welcome.

The position is limited in time in accordance with the German law on fixed-term contracts in science (WissZeitVG).