Contact & available projects

Jobs at the Posth Lab

Join our labs at the IGN, University of Copenhagen.

We are hiring!

Postdoc in the interfacial chemistry of plastic surfaces

The position will study the surface chemistry of plastic under environmental conditions to explore how the metals and minerals formed on the plastic surface or embedded in the biofilm matrix drive the influence and fate of plastics in the environment. This is a Carlsberg Foundation funded position. Applications must be uploaded following this link:

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Deadline March 18, 2025

 

 

Student (including MSc) projects
Please contact me to discuss MSc opportunities for the upcoming academic year.

Potential topics include:

• Building the plastic sediment record: an archive of anthropogenic change
• The sediment-based plastisphere
• Iron and sulfur biogeochemistry
• C cycling and plastic degradation by marine fungi
• Interfacial geochemistry of the plastic surface
• Proxies of biological evolution and climate change in corals

Interested in microbial element cycling in aqueous environments? Interested in microbial dynamics of the Plastisphere?
Please contact me to discuss options to join the lab!

Contact

Nicole R. Posth
Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN)
Section for Geology, Sedimentary Systems
University of Copenhagen
Øster Voldgade 10, 1350 Copenhagen K, Denmark
email: nrep@ign.ku.dk
web: http://ign.ku.dk/english/