Positions

One temporary position for biologist (at least postdoctoral level) is still available. Details are presented here.

Three WETLANET researchers were employed, two biologists and one chemist. The team of WETLANET project and the CLGE - BAS were glad to welcome the new colleagues Merlijn Jocqué, Pavel Zehtindjiev and Elka Kraleva!

Dr Merlijn Jocqué

About me

I graduated as ecologist at the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven (Belgium), specialized in marine and lacustrine sciences at the Universiteit Gent and then completed a PhD on freshwater ecology again in Leuven at the Laboratory of Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. I am also involved seasonally as senior on-site freshwater biologist in the cloud forests of National Park Cusuco (Honduras) with Operation Wallacea coordinating the research on aquatic animal communities in bromeliads and rivers. In a new project we look at the role of endangered tree frogs in a cloud forest ecosystem, and the extinction threat posed by the amphibian chytrid fungus.

My position as wetland biologist at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is framed in the WETLANET project and mainly encompasses the analysis of long term data collected on the internationally renowned Srebarna wetland in the north east of Bulgaria. Research attention points are ecosystem stability and the effect of management changes.

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Dr Pavel Zehtindjiev

About me

I have been working in the field of avian biology since 1993. The main focus of my research is on the microevolution of birds. My research is broadly in population ecology with particular emphasis on the responses of individuals to changing environmental conditions and the proximate factors influencing these responses.

I have a strong interest in interdisciplinary approaches and collaborations. My research plans are aimed at the population structure of most numerous species of birds breeding in the wetlands Srebarna and Atanasovsko Lake. My intensions are to carry out studies on evolutionary biology and ecology of wetland birds and their blood parasites, which will help better understanding formation and maintenance of biodiversity in wetlands. This will contribute to the development of the molecular ecology expertise of Central Laboratory of General Ecology in synchrony with the WETLANET project objectives in the outstanding atmosphere of the team working in this project.

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Dr Elka Kraleva

About me

My research activity is focused on the following research areas: ecology and catalysis - new clean catalytic processes and technologies for environmental protection; novel catalytic materials for preparation of clean fuels from renewable sources and for the waste cleaning. Studies on the structure and properties of nanostuctured materials using different physico-chemical methods: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Temperature-programmed reduction, SEM and TEM microscopy, GC/MS, ICP and etc.

-   Using of physicochemical methods for characterization of environmental matrices of protected wetlands in Bulgaria

-   Using GC/MS methods for analysis of aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides and chlorinated organic compounds and their effectiveness in samples from coastal marine and transitional waters and sediments

My postdoc position at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is framed in the WETLANET project and mainly encompasses using of GC/MS and different physicochemical methods for analysis of aromatic hydrocarbons, pesticides and chlorinated organic compounds and their effectiveness in samples from coastal marine and transitional waters and sediments.

For more information, visit my home-page.