Career
We at the Future Forests Excellence Cluster have brought together numerous disciplines at the University of Freiburg as well as partner research institutes and stakeholders with interest in the adaptation of forests to global change. Our common objective is to generate comprehensive knowledge for the analysis, development, and assessment of Adaptation and Transformation Pathways (A&TPs). These pathways shall make forest social-ecological systems (SESs) more adaptive and resilient in the face of rapid environmental and social changes to ensure landscapes with biodiverse forests that provide healthy living conditions.
In order to achieve this endeavour, we will establish a highly productive, international, and inter- and transdisciplinary research environment. The support structures within this environment will train, connect, and empower scientists at all career stages so that they can generate groundbreaking ideas, set benchmarks for research, and forge diverse career paths.
We are excited to share open PhD and first Post Doc positions. PhD positions are funded 75% for 42 months, Post Docs 100% for 36 months. The open positions below are listed according to the three research areas of the cluster, all of which will collaborate closely across topics and disciplines. Click on position(s) of interest to read more and apply. Only complete applications uploaded to the University application platform will be reviewed. We look forward to your application!
Risks to ecosystems and adaptation options
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Forest Microclimatology: Using an adaptive sensor network and machine learning-based approaches to quantify the degree of microclimatic buffering
Chair of Environmental Meteorology – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Plant-Insect-Microbe Interactions: Effects of drought and herbivory on tree physiology and microbial endophytes – a case study on Quercus petrea
Chair of Forest Entomology and Protection – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Hot drought-stress mediated pathogen interactions of Douglas fir
Chair of Pathology of Trees – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Stand density management as a silvicultural strategy for adapting forests to drought
Chair of Silviculture – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Expanding forest vulnerability mapping to include socio-ecological and resilience metrics
Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources & The Forest Research Institute Baden-Wuerttemberg (FVA-BW)
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Taxonomic and molecular diversity of epiphytic lichens and bryophytes and associated microorganisms
Chair of Applied Vegetation Ecology – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Functional consequences of novel forest conditions: plant diversity pathways and decomposition
Chair of Geobotany – Faculty of Biology
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Tick dynamics and their pathogens under changing environmental conditions and its relevance to human health
Chair of Wildlife Ecology and Management – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Forest Legacy Effects on Hydrology
Chair of Environmental Hydrological Systems – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Visual and acoustic dimensions of forest change: Linking long-term monitoring data, perception and well-being
Chair for Geobotany – Faculty of Biology
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Data Scientist for XR-Lab: Setting up experiments to investigate the visual and acoustic dimensions of forest change
Chair for Geobotany – Faculty of Biology
Decision-making for future forests
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Dynamics in epistemic authority and epistemic disputes under conditions of deep uncertainty and fundamental ambiguity (EpistAD)
Chair of Sustainability Governance – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Responsibility in Future Forests: Operationalizing responsibility in social-ecological forest systems
Professorship of Environmental Economics and Resource Management – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Integration of law and legal institutions into social-ecological systems research using the example of forest adaptation to climate change
Chair for Transformation towards Sustainable Energy Systems (focus Sustainability Law) – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Robust spatial optimization approaches to generate adaptive management strategies in large forest landscapes
Chair of Forestry Economics and Forest Planning – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Imagining Future Forests: Decision-making Practices in the Introduction of Contested Tree Species
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology – Faculty of Philosophy
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Decision-making practices in the case of anticipated disturbances: following institutionalized structures in forest SES governance (instDMP)
Chair of Forest and Environmental Policy – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Knowledge Barriers – Knowledge Practices: Making Contested Decisions in Everyday Work of Forest Management
Institute of Cultural Analysis / European Ethnology – Faculty of Philosophy
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Evidence-based forest Modelling
Department of Biometry and Environmental System Analysis – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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POST DOC – Framing decision-making for Future Forests: Exploring how to navigate environmental uncertainty and ambiguity
Chair of Sustainability Governance – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
Adaptation and transformation pathways for novel forest social-ecological systems
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Modeling the role of lateral subsurface flow on forest hydrology including tree dieback
Chair of Hydrology – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Using wind energy expansion in forests to investigate how spatial and environmental planning can contribute to understanding forests as social-ecological systems (SES)
Chair of Environmental Planning and Transformation – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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Forest Ecosystem Service Markets
Chair of Environmental Governance – Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources
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POST DOC – Multi- and interdisciplinary conceptualisations of novel forest social-ecological systems (SES)
Chair of Environmental Planning and Transformation (University of Freiburg) & Stockholm Resilience Center