PhD student for a project to increase diversity in agriculture

PhD position in the European Horizon 2020 project “CROPDIVA”, Climate Resilient Orphan croPs for increased DIVersity in Agriculture.

As a PhD student, you will investigate the performance.
1) of breeding lines of these cereals and
2) of mixed cropping systems using triticale together with different legumes.

Supervisor:
Dr Marta da Silva Lopes (head of the research program «Sustainable Field Crops» in IRTA)
Place where the PhD Student contract will be carried out: IRTA (Agronomist’s centre, Lleida).

The duration of the PhD Student contract will be for one year, extendible by yearly periods plus the extensions exceed three (3) years.

The financial remuneration for the PhD Student contract will be €1,247.52/gross per month (€17,460.28/gross per annum) for the first and second years. For the third year, it will be €1,336.63/gross per month (€18,712.48/gross per annum).

Interested parties should be registered at the Employment Service's website of IRTA http://www.irta.es/en/work-at-irta/ adding his/her Curriculum vitae. The period for submitting applications opens as of the date of the offer and ends on February 11th, 2022.

More details about the vacancy, see: https://borsatreball.irta.cat/enlace_oferta.aspx?numero=2022&convocatoria=CPI0122&lengua=C