Global Critical Zone Science Chair (Institute for Advanced Studies) 

Area of specialization: Critical Zone is the . Its limits range from the top of the canopy down to the bottom of the aquifer. The successful applicant to this position will join the Global Critical Zone Science Chair to develop and conduct a research program to better understand forest nutrition and nutritional stress in Eucalyptus forest stands in Brazil.

Research context: 

Forests cover 1/3 of the continental surfaces and play a crucial environmental role both at local and global scales. Forests sequester 25% of the carbon injected each year to the atmosphere by human activities and thus regulate the Earths global climate at short time scales. In its 2022 report for policymakers, the Word Resource Institute (Seymour et al., 2022) draws attention to the fact that forests do not only play a role by absorbing carbon from the atmosphere but also influence global and loca...