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Postdoctoral Position in Fish Health

The Thünen Institute for Fisheries Ecology, Bremerhaven, Germany, adverts a postdoctoral position on fish health in the ElbeXtreme project. ElbeXtreme is an interdisciplinary consortium researching impacts of extreme weather events in the Elbe estuary as part of the German Marine Research Alliance (DAM) mission “MareXtreme” funded by the BMFTR. In the project’s second funding phase, the Post Doc will investigate effects of extreme weather events on fish. The work involves planned laboratory studies using three-spined sticklebacks as model organisms, which may be complemented by field studies.

More information is available here. Application deadline: 01.09.2026.


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