Agroecology &
Functional Agrobiodiversity


Jobs

Postdoctoral researcher (all genders welcome)

in the research project “Building climate resilience in agricultural landscapes through social-ecological diversification, co-design and transdisciplinary learning (AgRe-Lab)”. AgRe-Lab will be funded by zukunft.niedersachsen, the joint science unding program of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation. The transdisciplinary AgRe-Lab project is focusing on the adoption of climate and biodiversity measures, together with co-design processes, landscape governance, and transdisciplinary learning. AgRe-Lab will investigate how these measures shape the social-ecological resilience of agricultural landscapes to adapt and remain productive under climate change. ...more

Theses

One MSc thesis opportunity "Quantifying ecosystem functions in different habitats using sentinels"

In the project "HEAVEN: Habitat Evaluation and Assessment of Valuable Ecosystem services in Non-crop areas" we are looking for one MSc student who is interested in conducting his/her thesis on quantification of ecosystem functions. ...more

One BSc/MSc thesis opportunity "Dummy caterpillars to quantify predator activity"

In the project "HEAVEN: Habitat Evaluation and Assessment of Valuable Ecosystem services in Non-crop areas" we are looking for one BSc/MSc student who is interested in conducting his/her thesis on dummy caterpillars as a method to quantify predator activity. ...more

One BSc/MSc thesis opportunity "Spider use of different habitat types in agricultural ecosystems"

As part of the HEAVEN project (https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/698444.html), we collected spiders throughout one year (June 2025-May 2026) from wheat fields, flower fields, grasslands, hedgerows, and grass margins. We are looking for a spider-enthusiast student who can identify spider species....more