Job opening at the University of Bologna for a graduate student or postdoc fellow (position 2)
The Department of Agriculture and Food Sciences (DISTAL) of the University of Bologna is looking for graduate students or postdoc fellow to work on the following project:
Toward the reduction of pesticide use: novel technologies for a sustainable protection of stone-fruit orchards
The successful applicant will be work in defining the recommendations for setting, at the level of every Member State, the rules to beadopted by farmers in the context of implementation of the SUR (Sustainable Use Regulation). Applicants should have a background in crop production and management, and/or molecular biology and/or plant physiology and/or plant protection
The specific objectives are:
- Quantify the actual deployment of practices and systems and the potential acreage of Implementation of the different IPM tools in winter cereals and fruit trees
- Provide information on the achievable reduction potential with the full implementation of the best IPM practices.
- Dissect the effect of selected IPM practice on beneficial phytobiota
- Identify the means for control of the implementation of the IPM practices and systems. The possible instruments that could be deployed, in relationship the different IIPM tools, to evaluate their real application and use will be defined.
Place: Bologna (Italy)
Contract Duration: 12 months (renewable)
More information can be found at https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=67966.
The deadline for application has passed.