Paleonet: 3 PhD studentships - chitons and bivalves - deadline 31 Jan

[Julia Sigwart]

Dear colleagues

We have funding to support up to three new PhD students working on great projects on living and fossil molluscs, between my lab in Queen's University Belfast and Alex Brasier in University of Aberdeen. Full funding is available only to EU and UK citizens. 

The project based in the Queen's Marine Lab in Portaferry, N Ireland, is co-sponsored by Zeiss microscopy and would include an internship with them. There are other excellent opportunities for outside training with the other projects as well. 

Application deadline is 31 January! 

Project titles and links to more info and the application portal
1. Based in N Ireland, working on chiton aesthetes : "Bio-inspiration from molluscs: flexible armour with embedded sensing capacity"
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/bio-inspiration-from-molluscs-flexible-armour-with-embedded-sensing-capacity/?p105243

2. Based in Aberdeen, working on Jurassic bivalves: "Jurassic Lagoon: learning from the ancestors of the amazing mussels"
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/jurassic-lagoon-learning-from-the-ancestors-of-the-amazing-mussels-quadrat/?p105133

3. Based in Aberdeen, with fieldwork sites in N Ireland, working on protected reef building mussels in a marine protected area: "Sea-level change and conservation, past, present and future"
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/sea-level-change-and-conservation-past-present-and-future-quadrat/?p105131


Please circulate this message to anyone who may be interested, I would be very happy to hear from interested potential students. 

Cheers,

Julia

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Dr Julia Sigwart
Queen's University Belfast, Marine Laboratory

sabbatical address (2015-2018):
University of California, Berkeley, Museum of Paleontology

www.qub.ac.uk/bb/People/DrJDSigwart/