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• Location

The host laboratory is UMR ESE (https://www.ese.universite-paris-saclay.fr/). The post-doctoral fellow will work with researchers from EV (the plant ecophysiology team) and will be supervised by Christophe François, with the involvement of Nicolas Delpierre.
Other partners are associated to this post-doctoral project:
* Researchers from UMR SILVA (https://www6.nancy.inrae.fr/silva/), in particular mechanistic (Marion Jourdan, coordinator of DENSPROFOR project) and phenomenological (Julien Sainte-Marie) modellers and silvicultural experimenter (Ingrid Seynave). The post-doctoral researcher will be offered the opportunity to travel regularly to Nancy.
* The engineers of the ONF-RDI of Dôle, Salomé Fournier and Thomas Cordonnier.

• Mission

The project will focus on sessile and pedunculate oak stands (23% of the volume of standing timber in French forests, according to the IFN), two species representing major historical challenges for the timber industry, and Douglas fir (5% of the surface, 30% of sawn softwood production by 2040), used as a reforestation species for many years.
To estimate the relevance of these itineraries, we want to compare them with the silvicultural scenarios currently implemented in the forest in projections for the year 2100 under different climate scenarios. The model considered is an eco-physiological model at stand scale, CASTANEA.

• Skills

*PhD in plant ecology/ecophysiology and background in environmental physics;
* Demonstrated publication skills ;
* Working knowledge in programming and in one computer language at least;
* Strong interest in the modelling of complex systems;
* Working knowledge of the English language;

• Application

Send a detailed CV, application letter and coordinates of 2 reference persons:
* Christophe François (ESE, Saclay): christophe.francois@universite-paris-saclay.fr
* Marion Jourdan (SILVA, Nancy): marion.jourdan@inrae.fr
Application deadline : Octobre 31th, 2023

Post-doc in ecophysiology / forest modelling