Post-Doctoral Fellow – Biological Nitrification Inhibition

About us
The VIB-UGent Center for Plant Systems Biology (PSB) is a world‑leading research center of more than 280 researchers dedicated to cutting‑edge science with a clear mission: combating climate change, fostering sustainable agriculture, and preserving global biodiversity (https://www.psb.ugent.be/ ). In this respect, an important research topic of the center is the interaction between plants and soil microorganisms. The research line of Hans Motte within the Beeckman lab aims to understand how plants influence nutrient‑competing soil microorganisms.About the role
We are looking for a motivated and skilled Postdoctoral Researcher to discover and characterize new plant‑based strategies to control nitrogen‑cycle microorganisms, and as such improve plant nitrogen use while reducing nitrogen pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
The successful candidate will contribute to an ongoing project assessing the biological nitrification inhibition (BNI) potential of metabolites a...