Postdoctoral Positions in Applied Agricultural and Food Security Data Science - TX-22434274

Universität Hohenheim

Postdoctoral Positions in Applied Agricultural and Food Security Data Science Develop and apply computational and quantitative methods to address sustainability and resilience of African agricultural and food systems under current and future challenges.

The position is based at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) with funds from the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space, Germany (BMFTR) within UKUDLA (ukudla.uni-hohenheim.de) African German Centre for Sustainable and Resilient Food Systems and Applied Agricultural and Food Data Science.

Tasks & Responsibilities Postdoctoral researchers will develop independent projects within one or across several of the following research lines: Comparative Multi-Omics Agriculture Integrate phenotypic, climatic, genomic, transcriptomic and microbiome data to identify molecular and microbial mechanisms underlying crop productivity, stress tolerance and resilience. Combine predictive and systems-level modelling with novel geometric approaches for comparative analysis. Design proof-of-concept plant-microbiome experiments.

Validate methods using public and UKUDLA datasets.