Post Doctoral AD- Wurzburger

Posting Number:

G/R31276P

Working Title:

Post Doctoral AD
- Wurzburger

Department:

Ecology-Odum School of Ecology

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Employment Type:

Employee

Anticipated

Start Date:

01/01/2026

Posting Date:

09/29/2025

Open Until Filled:

Yes

Special Instructions to Applicants:

Applications received by October 15th will receive full consideration.

Location of Vacancy:

Athens Area

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Duties/Responsibilities.

Design and conduct model simulations of mycorrhizal roles in soil organic matter cycling and plant nitrogen acquisition. This will involve parameterizing microbial traits in a microbial‑explicit soil organic matter model, synthesizing and analyzing existing observations of biogeochemistry as well as new data from experiments and observations. Publish model results in peer‑reviewed journal articles

Percentage of time:

70

Duties/Responsibilities.

Contribute to experimental and observational data collection and analysis, including isotope tracer experiments, measurements of fungal productivity, and characterization of fungal communities

Percentage of time:

20

Duties/Responsibilities.

Communicate model developments and research results through meetings with the PI, lab group, collaborators, and conference presentations.

Percentage of time:

10

Classification

Title:

Post-Doctoral Associate AD

FLSA:

Exempt

FTE:

1.00

Position Summary:

The Wurzburger Lab is seeking a Postdoctoral Associate who will focus on modeling interactions between plants, mycorrhizal fungi, and soil organic matter cycling in forest ecosystems. This position is part of a DOE‑funded project investigating the role of ericoid mycorrhizal shrubs in soil carbon and nitrogen cycling, using a combination of field measurements, experiments, and modeling. As part of the research team, the postdoc will develop and test numerical models of soil organic matter cycling that incorporate ericoid mycorrhizal fungi and other microbial processes, and conduct model simulations of carbon and nitrogen cycling under different scenarios of plant traits, and forest mycorrhizal…