Joining the lab

We are always looking for talented early-career scientists of all nationalities and backgrounds with a passion for ecology and data science. The challenge is usually to finance this work. If you have your own funding (e.g. via a fellowship), this is great. If we have any funding available, this will appear in our News section with information about how to apply. If you don't see any offers in this section, you can assume there are none. If neither you nor we have funding available, you can still contact me to express your interest in doing a PhD / postdoc, but please understand that in this case, it will be mainly your responsibility to develop a project that fits with the research interest of our group (see our publications) and attract funding for this project. For a list of funding options, see e.g. the websites of Research In Germany (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster) or the DAAD (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster). Please understand due to German working regulations, that we cannot accept PhD / postdoc projects unless full funding is secured, even if you would offer to work for free. 

We are permanently looking for students with programming / statistical knowledge to help with programming / testing software that we develop, as well for data preparation and statistical analyses - if you are interested, please send a short (0.5 page max) explanation of your motivation, a CV that describes your experience in programming and data science, a transcripts of records of your studies and ideally examples of projects that you worked on (e.g. publications, GitHub repos, other software projects …) to our secretary (see here).  

This is usually always possible with sufficient interest / knowledge. For more details, please see our teaching section.

This is in principle possible (provided your prior education seems suitable), but we cannot support you with the organisation in terms of visa, travel, financing. For funding from Germany, see e.g. theDAAD (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster), but there may be also funding from your home country. Also, you should look at our information about traineeships (externer Link, ?ffnet neues Fenster) at the UR and contact our welcome center to inquire about obtaining a trainee or student status during your stay. We can only host internships if your legal status (e.g. as an exchange student at the university) is clear.