Sweden Scholarships description

Applicants are invited for PhD Position in Biology for International Students. This PhD project is a part of a Marie-Curie ITN-EID project, “MossTech” with the overall aim of supplying the European industry with new substances that can be produced by bryophytes, as an alternative to petrochemical production. The overall aims of the study of allelopathic substances are to (1) find chemicals that can be used as natural phytotoxicals and (2) understand biotic filtering processes that are activated during primary or secondary colonisation and may explain community assembly in plant vegetation.



About University: Lund University is one of Europe’s oldest, largest and most prestigious universities, consistently ranking among the world’s top 100 universities. The University has 42 000 students and 7 400 staff based in Lund, Helsingborg and Malmö. We are united in our efforts to understand, explain and improve our world and the human condition.