Doctoral student in Forest industry production systems
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Subject matter for the position: Forest industry production systems - Continuous cover forestry systems: relationships between management practice, wood quality and economic viability.
Place of employment: Växjö, Sweden
Conditions of employment: 100 %
Linnaeus University, Department of Forestry and Wood Technology, is searching for applicants for a 4-year full-time PhD position. The responsibilities include research education up to a PhD degree in Silviculture/ Wood technology. The Swedish Higher Education Act indicates that a person employed as a PhD student shall mainly devote themselves to their studies. The candidate may, however, work with education, research and administration in a limited capacity. Such compulsory work may not comprise more than 20% of the total working time and the total employment can then be extended up to 5 years.
Project description
Swedish forestry is facing new perspectives and demands on the forest as a resource. Apart from supplying pulp and timber, several other services are increasingly expected to be delivered from forest lands. One strategy to meet these new demands is to partially shift to a multi-purpose perspective, where management practices are able to accommodate diverse services at the same time. Alternative silvicultural methods such as continuous cover forestry (CCF) represent a powerful tool to optimize these disperse services from the forest. Continuous cover forestry and its impact on wood quality is less studied for the Swedish forest practice.
It is evident that wood quality aspects are quite important for stakeholders and end users of timber and should be an integral part for exploiting such systems. Stand density considerably affects the growth and yield (such as height, diameter, stem volume, ring width and early wood percentage), the properties of the stem (e.g. branches on stem and knots in wood) and wood characteristics (such as wood density and fibre length), and therefore the suitability of the raw material for mechanical wood processing and pulp and paper production. As there is a growing interest in alternative forest management systems such as CCF to address specific environmental, social and economic features of modern forestry, it is important to increase our knowledge on aspects of silviculture including economic tools for their application and wood quality effects.
The scientific rationale of this project is therefore to: (1) produce knowledge for spatial individual tree models describing CCF in Swedish forestry conditions (2) analyse impacts of CCF management of Scot pine stands on wood quality (3) develop economic optimization tools applicable in operational forestry. The research topics are grouped in 3 Work Packages running parallel for the whole project duration.
Read more about the position and apply at
http://lnu.se/about-lnu/jobs-and-vacancies?l=en Information is provided by
Professor: Johan Bergh, tel: +46 (0)470-76 75 42, E-post
johan.bergh@lnu.seHead of department: Åsa Rydell Blom, tel: +46 (0)470-70 81 26, E-postadress:
asa.blom@lnu.seHuman resource consultant: Camilla Andersson, tel: +46 (0)470-70 80 36, E-postadress:
camilla.andersson@lnu.seThe application
The application (in English) should be submitted electronically using the link below no later than Februari 29th, 2016 and should contain:
• CV (including telephone, email, current address and date of birth).
• Application letter (maximum four pages) containing a description of why you are applying for this Ph.D.-position, what your expectations for the Ph.D.-studies are and what research you want to engage in. In your application you should also motivate in what way your personal characteristics, your own experience and qualifications gained from studies, projects performed, papers written, etc., are relevant to performing Ph.D. studies and meet the assessment criteria stated above.
• Signed copies of documents containing grades of courses completed, signed copies of degrees awarded and proof of the specific requirement given above.
• A summary (maximum two pages) of your Master thesis.
• Name and contact information (including title, affiliation, telephone, email address) of two references who have agreed to write a letter of recommendation for you.
Please apply by clicking on the "Apply" button at the bottom of the ad. All documents must be attached digital in the application. The application and other documents shall be marked with the reference number 2016/509-2.2.1. All documents cited must be received by the University no later than 24.00 on the closing day.
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Publiceringsdatum2016-02-12Ersättningenl stege
Så ansöker duSista dag att ansöka är 2016-02-29
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