The ETN Skill-For.Action project, funded by the European Commission under the Horizon 2020 program (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions - Innovative Training Network), is currently recruiting a total of 12 fully-funded Early-Stage Researchers (ESRs) who can enroll in PhD programs in participating institutions.
ETN Skill-For.Action
will provide students with high-quality training and innovative research opportunities, as well as financial support for travel. Among the twelve positions, the following six are related to Forest Operations and Forest Engineering:
- ESR07 CO2 emission control in forest operations (University of Padova, Italy) link
- ESR08 Soil wheel CO2 interaction (FBZ, Germany) (German language is a plus) link
- ESR09 Intelligent combination of airborne data and terrestrial LiDAR for obtaining micro surface, tree and assortment data for an improved timber harvesting planning (Stellenbosh, South Africa) link
- ESR10 Forest machine simulation for resource-efficient production (RWTH, Germany) (Master on Computer Science is a pre-requisite,
German language is a plus
) link
- ESR11 Optimisation analysis for harvesting strategies (at the stand level) (FBH, Switzerland) link
- ESR12 Opportunities and limitations of robust optimization in forest management on enterprise-level (TUM, Germany) link
The ETN Skill-For.Action project integrates the fundamental research in forest ecology and applied science of forest engineering, which is crucial for a complete understanding of carbon dynamics in forest management. The main project goal is to provide high-level training and education in adaptive and integrative forest management under global changes to a new generation of ESRs for a successful career in the forest sector and natural resources management.
Deadline on: May 23th, 2021 at 11.00 PM (Central European Time)
For additional information, please contact the project coordinator, Stefano Grigolato of the University of Padova - Italy (
stefano.grigolato@unipd.it)