As part of the SNF-project Signatures of Global Late Glacial Climate Change in Tree-Ring Records (SiGnaL), co-led by the Dendrosciences group at WSL and the Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) at ETH Zurich, you will, along with two other PhD students and technicians, contribute to understanding the nature and drivers of abrupt climate changes during the Late Glacial period (approximately 11’000-15’000 years ago). Your work will include the collection, measurement, and integration of fossil wood and tree-ring material from various global sites. Through a multi-proxy approach - combining radiocarbon dating, stable isotope ratios, and quantitative wood anatomy - you will help to date and synchronize records across regions and reconstruct regional to global climate dynamics. This will help refine our understanding of Late Glacial climate dynamics and contribute to improvements of the global radiocarbon calibration curve.

You have a Master's degree in Environmental Sciences, Earth Sciences, or a related field, and preferably have already gained experience with radio-carbon and stable isotope measurements. You are comfortable analyzing and visualizing data in R or Python and are motivated to publish your results in scientific journals. You enjoy to work in the lab, with large datasets, and have an interest in interdisciplinary and international research. You like to work independently, structured and accurate. You are communicative and team-oriented and have excellent spoken and written English language skills as well as at least the knowledge of one Swiss national language.