In deze functie ben jij het eerste aanspreekpunt voor zowel onze bezoekers als voor je collega’s. Met jouw positieve uitstraling zorg jij voor een warm welkom bij het NIOO. Samen met collega’s help jij de klant verder door het geven van informatie en advies.

In deze functie ben jij het eerste aanspreekpunt voor zowel onze bezoekers als voor je collega’s. Met jouw positieve uitstraling zorg jij voor een warm welkom bij het NIOO. Samen met collega’s help jij de klant verder door het geven van informatie en advies.

Working as a Research Assistant within the Department of Aquatic Ecology you will be supporting the research of five scientists and their teams of Postdocs, PhDs, Masters students and interns. You will work within a team of five research assistants, contributing to general tasks with a focus on independently performing, developing and interpreting analyses in the chemical and molecular laboratories. The most common analyses are water chemistry (e.g. nutrients) and pollutant analyses, such as pharmaceuticals. Moreover, it involves the analysis and methods development of a range of biochemical analyses such as photosynthetic pigments, elements, stable isotopes and metabolites in samples from aquatic systems and cultures, such as algae and zooplankton and the application of basic molecular methods.

Working as a Research Assistant within the Department of Aquatic Ecology you will be supporting the research of five scientists and their teams of Postdocs, PhDs, Masters students and interns. You will work within a team of five research assistants, contributing to general tasks with a focus on independently performing, developing and interpreting analyses in the chemical and molecular laboratories. The most common analyses are water chemistry (e.g. nutrients) and pollutant analyses, such as pharmaceuticals. Moreover, it involves the analysis and methods development of a range of biochemical analyses such as photosynthetic pigments, elements, stable isotopes and metabolites in samples from aquatic systems and cultures, such as algae and zooplankton and the application of basic molecular methods.

Climate change is exerting strong selection on wild populations, with many species showing shifts in the seasonal timing of development. One particularly vulnerable group are insect species that overwinter as eggs, with warmer winters leading to stronger population declines compared to other insect species. To predict whether insect populations can adapt to climate change, we need to know the amount of genetic variation in egg development time.

One of the challenges in ecology is to understand and predict how ecosystems are impacted by changes in environmental conditions and external pressures. This challenge is urgent given the unprecedented rate of global change in climate, land use, and urbanisation. To do so, we need to transform the way we do ecological research.