PhD position in Evolutionary Ecology:

Parental Care and Microbial Control in Burying Beetles

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate (f/m/d) to investigate how parental care enables Nicrophorus burying beetles to control beneficial and harmful microbial communities during family life. This three-year position is part of an ERC-funded project exploring the socioecology of animal-microbe interactions, focusing on how interactions between animals and microbes shape – and are shaped by – animal social behaviors.