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Join our team and help us address some of the biggest challenges in food security. Our current vacancies are as follows:
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To informally discuss any of the vacancies and possible future recruitment opportunities please contact us at p3@sheffield.ac.uk.
Climate Change
Dr Andrew Beckerman
- Scaling from behaviour to population dynamics
- Dynamical consequences of predation risk
- Food webs and foraging ecology
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Dr David Edwards
- Impacts of tropical land-use change on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
- Sustainability of logging and agriculture in the tropics
- Cost-effective conservation within the tropics
- Interaction of climate and land-use changes on extinction risk
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Dr Gareth Phoenix
- Impacts of climate change on Arctic plants and ecosystems
- Plant nutrient acquisition and impacts on carbon and nutrient cycling
- Nitrogen deposition impacts on ecosystem structure and function
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Dr Janice Lake
- Plant Physiology and Climate change
- Climate change mitigation: Carbon Capture and Storage
- Remediation of industrial land – biomass production
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Dr Karl Evans
- Agricultural intensification
- Climate change
- Clutch size variation
- Human population density and its relationship with biodiversity patterns
- Introduced species
- Species-energy relationships
- Urbanisation
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Dr Pierre Pétriacq
- Plant biochemistry
- Rhizosphere chemistry
- Metabolic regulations of the plant immune system
- NAD signalling in response to development and stress
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Dr Tom Webb
- Macroecology of marine systems Ecological applications of novel statistical techniques
- Detecting the human footprint on large-scale ecological patterns
- Ecological applications of novel statistical techniques
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Professor Charles Wellman
- Ecophysiology of the earliest land plants
- Environmental change associated with the origin of land plants and complex terrestrial ecosystems
- Using spore wall chemistry as a paleo-proxy for terrestrial solar UV-B levels
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Professor David Beerling FRS
- Mechanisms of climate change in Earth history
- Biotic evolution and extinction
- Earth systems science
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Professor Hamish Cunningham
- Research Chair in Computer Science
- Open source electronics for monitoring and control of soil-free agriculture
- Aquaponics for sustainable cultivation and resilient communities
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Professor Jonathan Leake
- Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling by mycorrhizas
- Nitrogen pollution effects on grassland soils and vegetation
- Functional interactions between symbiotic fungi and other organisms
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Professor Lorraine Maltby
- Freshwater ecotoxicology
- Adaptation and acclimation to stress
- Community structure and ecosystem functioning in streams
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Professor Philip Grime
- Long-term field manipulations of climate at the Buxton Laboratory
- Analysis of the Bibury Record of year to year variation in vegetation
- Experimental studies of plant invasion
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Professor Philip Warren
- The structure and dynamics of food webs; in particular ecological and evolutionary mechanisms determining network structures
- Community assembly dynamics: the roles of invasion and extinction as drivers of community change
- Determinants of species richness within and between communities, and effects of species richness on community function
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Professor Terry Callaghan
- Mechanisms of survival and adaptation in plants to arctic environments
- Effect of enhanced UV-B radiation on arctic plant communities
- Climate change impacts on organisms and ecosystems
- Effect of CO2 concentrations on organisms and ecosystems
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Soil and Soil Biology
Dr Donatella Zona
- Functioning of a variety of natural and managed ecosystems.
- Patterns and controls on non-CO2 gasses such as O3, CH4, N2O fluxes.
- Impact of climate change on biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and greenhouse gas emission in the Arctic.
- Mechanisms allowing tundra ecosystems to adjust or avoid environmental stress.
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Dr Ellie Harrison
- Evolutionary and ecological feedbacks within microbial communities
- Mobile genetic elements and horizontal gene transfer
- The impact of rapid evolution on soil ecosystems and plant health
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Dr Gareth Phoenix
- Impacts of climate change on Arctic plants and ecosystems
- Plant nutrient acquisition and impacts on carbon and nutrient cycling
- Nitrogen deposition impacts on ecosystem structure and function
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Dr Stephen Rolfe
- Imaging plant function
- The molecular biology of plant pathogen and symbiotic interactions
- Plant responses to abiotic stress
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Professor David Read
- Mobilisation of nutrients by ectomycorrhizal fungi
- Effects of mycorrhizas on interspecific competition in plants
- Effect of nitrogen deposition on soil processes and mycorrhizas
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Professor Duncan Cameron
- Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow
- Mircrobes in sustainable agro-ecosystems
- Soils and beneficial microbes
- Biological chemistry
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Professor Jonathan Leake
- Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling by mycorrhizas
- Nitrogen pollution effects on grassland soils and vegetation
- Functional interactions between symbiotic fungi and other organisms
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Professor Tim Daniell
- Arbuscular mycorrhizal ecology
- Microbial nitrogen cycling
- Free-living nematode dynamics
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Pests, Diseases and Weeds
Dr Ben Webster
- Identification of semiochemicals mediating insect-host interactions
- Context-dependent effects of volatile cues on insect behaviour
- Volatiles mediating muli-trophic interactions between plants, herbivores and their natural enemies
- Host-switching and phenotypic plasticity in aphids
- Volatile-mediated plant-plant communication
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Dr Dylan Childs
- Life history theory
- Structured population modelling
- Host-parasite dynamics
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Dr Estrella Luna-Diez
- Optimization of the induce resistance response to serve as an alternative to pesticide use
- Emerging and re-emerging crop diseases
- Genetic variation in the induced resistance response in crops
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Dr Patrik Nosil
- Mechanisms of species formation
- Genome evolution
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics
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Dr Stephen Rolfe
- Imaging plant function
- The molecular biology of plant pathogen and symbiotic interactions
- Plant responses to abiotic stress
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Dr Stuart Campbell
- Adaptive evolution in plant populations
- Plant-animal interactions
- Chemical ecology of plant defence
- Plant reproduction
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Professor Jonathan Leake
- Carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus cycling by mycorrhizas
- Nitrogen pollution effects on grassland soils and vegetation
- Functional interactions between symbiotic fungi and other organisms
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Professor Julie Gray
- Antisene gene expression to produce transgenic plants with targeted mutations
- Understanding mechanisms of plant cell signalling and intracellular communication
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Professor Julie Scholes
- Molecular plant-symbiont interactions including angiosperm parasites (Striga and Orobanche), fungal pathogens and mycorrhizas
- Bio-imaging: in vivo imaging of plant and fungal gene expression
- Molecular microbial ecology of polluted aquifers
- The role of biotic factors in the survival of tropical rainforest seedlings
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Professor Jurriaan Ton
- Professor and ERC Research Fellow
- Molecular signalling and (epi)genetic basis of priming of plant immunity
- Ecological impacts and agricultural potential of induced resistance in plants
- Chemical interactions between plants, microbes, and insects
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Professor Michael-Siva Jothy
- Ecological immunity
- Sexual conflict
- Reproductive immunity
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Professor Rob Freckleton
- Population modelling
- Large scale ecology
- Comparative analysis and evolutionary ecology
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Professor Roger Butlin
- Speciation
- The paradox of sex
- Evolution at range margins
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Photosynthesis and Development
Dr Matt Johnson
- Leverhulme Trust Research Fellow
- Investigating the structure, function and dynamics of photosynthetic membranes
- Determining the molecular basis of how plants respond and adapt to changing environmental conditions
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Dr Pascal-Antoine Christin
- Evolution of C4 photosynthesis
- Functional diversification of plants
- Comparative genomics
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Dr Stuart Casson
- The mechanisms that regulate plant development
- Studying the biochemistry and enzymology of pigment biosynthesis
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Emeritus Professor Peter Horton FRS
- Interdisciplinary approaches to sustainable food security
- Understanding photoprotection in plants
- Increasing crop yield by optimisation of photosynthesis
- Analysis of agri-food ecosystems
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Professor Andrew Fleming
- The molecular mechanism of plant morphogenesis
- Leaf form and function
- Developmental physiology and biochemistry
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Professor Colin Osborne
- Evolution of C4 photosynthesis and its ecological significance in the grasses
- Plant-atmosphere interactions in the geological past
- Modern plant-climate relationships
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Professor David Beerling FRS
- Mechanisms of climate change in Earth history
- Biotic evolution and extinction
- Earth systems science
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Professor Julie Gray
- Antisene gene expression to produce transgenic plants with targeted mutations
- Understanding mechanisms of plant cell signalling and intracellular communication
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Professor Julie Scholes
- Molecular plant-symbiont interactions including angiosperm parasites (Striga and Orobanche), fungal pathogens and mycorrhizas
- Bio-imaging: in vivo imaging of plant and fungal gene expression
- Molecular microbial ecology of polluted aquifers
- The role of biotic factors in the survival of tropical rainforest seedlings
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Professor Mike Burrell
- Plant metabolism and food processing quality
- Metabolomics and metabolite profiling
- Starch synthesis and degradation in agricultural crops
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Professor Richard Leegood
- Environmental regulation of C4 photosynthesis
- Interactions between carbon and nitrogen metabolism
- Roles and regulation of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase in plants
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Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics
Dr Andrew Beckerman
- Scaling from behaviour to population dynamics
- Dynamical consequences of predation risk
- Food webs and foraging ecology
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Dr Eran Elhaik
- Population genetics (biogeography, population structure, DNA reconstruction)
- molecular evolution (molecular clocks, evolution rates)
- Genomics (genome evolution, phylogeny)
- Epigenetics (methylation, gene expression, regulation)
- Ecology
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Dr Heather Walker
- Mass Spectrometry Specialist
- Metabolite Profiling and Metabolomics
- Understanding metabolism in biological systems
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Dr Karim Sorefan
- Molecular mechanisms regulating plant development with a focus on linking miRNA and hormonal pathways
- Developing exploitation of plants in areas of biotechnology and medicine
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Dr Lisa Smith
- Trade-offs between plant development/growth and defence
- Roles of carbohydrate-binding proteins in signalling networks
- Motor proteins in plant development
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Dr Patrik Nosil
- Mechanisms of species formation
- Genome evolution
- Eco-evolutionary dynamics
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Dr Pierre Pétriacq
- Plant biochemistry
- Rhizosphere chemistry
- Metabolic regulations of the plant immune system
- NAD signalling in response to development and stress
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Dr Stuart Campbell
- Adaptive evolution in plant populations
- Plant-animal interactions
- Chemical ecology of plant defence
- Plant reproduction
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Dr Stuart Casson
- The mechanisms that regulate plant development
- Studying the biochemistry and enzymology of pigment biosynthesis
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Professor Andrew Fleming
- The molecular mechanism of plant morphogenesis
- Leaf form and function
- Developmental physiology and biochemistry
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Professor Duncan Cameron
- Professor and Royal Society University Research Fellow
- Mircrobes in sustainable agro-ecosystems
- Soils and beneficial microbes
- Biological chemistry
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Professor Jon Slate
- The genetic basis of individual fitness variation
- Detecting the footprint of natural selection by genome sequence analysis
- Gene mapping in wild and domestic populations
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Professor Julie Gray
- Antisene gene expression to produce transgenic plants with targeted mutations
- Understanding mechanisms of plant cell signalling and intracellular communication
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Professor Julie Scholes
- Molecular plant-symbiont interactions including angiosperm parasites (Striga and Orobanche), fungal pathogens and mycorrhizas
- Bio-imaging: in vivo imaging of plant and fungal gene expression
- Molecular microbial ecology of polluted aquifers
- The role of biotic factors in the survival of tropical rainforest seedlings
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Professor Jurriaan Ton
- Professor and ERC Research Fellow
- Molecular signalling and (epi)genetic basis of priming of plant immunity
- Ecological impacts and agricultural potential of induced resistance in plants
- Chemical interactions between plants, microbes, and insects
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Professor Mike Burrell
- Plant metabolism and food processing quality
- Metabolomics and metabolite profiling
- Starch synthesis and degradation in agricultural crops
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Professor Paul Quick
- The regulation of carbohydrate metabolism in crop plants
- Metabolomic approaches to solving novel questions in plant metabolism
- Role of the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway in secondary metabolism
- Regulation of leaf development by systematic signals
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Professor Roger Butlin
- Speciation
- The paradox of sex
- Evolution at range margins
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Professor Terry Burke
- Molecular and genomic methods in evolution and ecology
- Sexual selection and mating systems in vertebrates
- Population genetics of natural populations
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Modelling and Theoretical Biology
Dr Dylan Childs
- Life history theory
- Structured population modelling
- Host-parasite dynamics
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Dr Eran Elhaik
- Population genetics (biogeography, population structure, DNA reconstruction)
- molecular evolution (molecular clocks, evolution rates)
- Genomics (genome evolution, phylogeny)
- Epigenetics (methylation, gene expression, regulation)
- Ecology
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Professor Mark Rees
- Impacts of plant invaders on communities and ecosystems
- Management of plant invaders
- Population and community dynamics
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Professor Rob Freckleton
- Population modelling
- Large scale ecology
- Comparative analysis and evolutionary ecology
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