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The Earth & Life Institute, applied microbiology department, plant health lab at UC Louvain is offering two post-doctoral position in plant bacteriology to investigate the potential impact of Xylella fastidiosa present in under-studied regions in the USA to forest and agricultural trees and shrubs, in the frame of a collaborative project funded by the European Food Safety Authority aiming at gathering a better understanding of the risk caused by X. fastidiosa in temperate climatic zones, with Rodrigo Almeida (University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA) and Boris Vinatzer (Virginia Tech, VA, USA). The candidates are expected to contribute to ground-breaking research in comparative genomics, microbial ecology and evolution, plant-microbe interactions, with direct impact on pest risk assessment.
The position is open within the project ‘Atlantic Ocean Circulation over the Past Two Millennia and its Impact on European Climate (AMOC-Millennia)’ supported by the FNRS, Belgium and DFG, Germany.
The goal of the project is to investigate AMOC and other ocean circulation variability within the context of climatic changes over the past two millennia, combining information from proxy data and climate models using data assimilation techniques. A better understanding of changes over the last millennia is critical to put the modern variations in perspective. This would also allow reducing the uncertainty in predicting future ocean circulation changes, as the extent of future AMOC weakening, and their potential impacts.
The position is open within the project ‘Tipping Points in the Southern Ocean Overturning (TiPSOO)’ supported by the ESA. A slowdown or a collapse of the Southern Ocean Overturning Circulation would have far reaching consequences, potentially accelerating global warming and sea level rise and triggering ecosystem losses. The goal of the project is to estimate changes in the Southern Ocean overturning circulation and investigate the possibility to detect a potential tipping point using new Earth Observations and modelling results.