The Department of Geological Sciences invites applications for two four-year PhD positions based at the Centre for Palaeogenetics (CPG) on the Stockholm University campus. The PhD projects are part of the DeepTime sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) research program funded by a Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation Academy Fellowship, with the goal of investigating biodiversity turnovers at glacial-interglacial transitions throughout the last 800,000 years.
Terrestrial ecosystems PhD project: The project will aim to reconstruct plant and animal communities of terrestrial ecosystems from permafrost of northwestern North America, using state-of-the-art sedaDNA techniques. The project will initially focus on Late Pleistocene sediments with the goal of targeting sediments up to 800,000 years old. The project will take advantage of samples already in storage at CPG, with additional fieldwork planned in 2023 and 2024.
Marine ecosystems PhD project: The project aims to reconstruct planktonic and benthic communities of marine ecosystems from the Arctic Ocean, using state-of-the-art sedaDNA techniques. The project will initially focus on recent sediments to provide bench-marking data with the goal of targeting sediments up to half a million years old. The project will take advantage of an extensive archive of marine sediment cores housed at the Department of Geological Sciences, with the possibility of additional fieldwork in 2024.
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