Over the past years, Vienna has developed into one of the leading centres of population genetics. The Vienna Graduate School of Population Genetics has been founded to provide a training opportunity for PhD students to build on this excellent on-site expertise.
We invite applications from highly motivated and outstanding students with a love for evolutionary research and a background in one of the following disciplines: evolutionary genetics, functional genetics, theoretical or experimental population genetics, bioinformatics, mathematics, statistics.
Topics include:
• Adaptation from reduced genetic variation.
• Adaptation to complex environments.
• Inference of selection signatures from time-series data.
• Long-term dynamics of local Drosophila populations.
• Making sense of whole-genome polymorphism data.
• The role of deleterious mutations for adaptation and maintenance of variation.
• Unraveling the impact of gene flow during species divergence.
PhD students will receive a monthly salary based on currently € 2.464,80 before tax according to the regulations of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).