ETZ Zurich is seeking two highly motivated and curious Ph.D. students to join the Environmental Physics Group at ETH Zurich, a vibrant interdisciplinary team of researchers studying the ocean, its physics, biogeochemistry, and ecology and their interactions with climate. A key motivation driving their work is to better understand and quantify how climate change will impact the ocean, its biogeochemistry, and its ecology, and how these changes may feed back on climate. These two positions are offered in the framework of the recently funded Horizon-Europe BioGeoSea project. 

• Ph.D. position 1: The first of the two doctoral students will work primarily on the marine nitrogen cycle and how it is affected by extreme conditions. The focus will be on the production, consumption and outgassing of nitrous oxide (N2O), a very potent greenhouse gas.

• Ph.D. position 2: The second doctoral student will work on the improvement of zooplankton processes in the models, focusing on their role in structuring the phytoplankton community and in governing the efficiency of the biological carbon pump. 

For detailed information, please read the original announcement.