PhD-student (f, m, div) in Model-based climate monitoring and control in CEA for resource efficient production

Published on: 14.08.2024

Designation: Doktorand*in im Bereich Modellierung
Provider: Leibniz-Institut für Gemüse- und Zierpflanzenbau (IGZ) e.V.
Provider's website: https://igzev.de/karriere/stellenanzeigen
Requirements: abgeschlossenes Master-/Diplomstudium
Employment from: 01.11.2024
Duration of Employment: 48 Monate
Place of work: Großbeeren
Payment: bis zur EG 13 TV-L
Application documents: Anschreiben, Lebenslauf, Zeugnisse und Zertifikate
Mail: bewerbung@igzev.de
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position at the Ruhr-University: externe Stelle

With its work, the Leibniz Institute of Vegetable and Ornamental Crops (IGZ) contributes to a better understanding of plant systems and thus to the development of sustainable and resilient horticulture. The IGZ conducts research at the interface between plants, humans and the environment. In doing so, we address systemic and global challenges such as biodiversity loss, climate change, urbanization and malnutrition. We provide scientifically sound recommendations for healthy agri-food systems and sustainable interactions with the environment. The IGZ brings together a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines. Employees with different backgrounds conduct research in national and international research co-operations. The IGZ is based in Großbeeren near Potsdam and near Berlin and is a member of the Leibniz Association.

In the research group HORTSYS-Controlled environment horticultural system we create model-sensor based decision support tools for resource optimised crop production in protected cultivation. The main research in this group is model-based monitoring using systems modelling and sensor technology, aiming at resource-use optimised production. We use our research for environmental control and resource conservation in greenhouses and controlled environments.

Climate control in a greenhouse is either done preventive with large security margins or it runs behind and tries to heal damages caused. Damages to the physiological apparatus caused by plant stress, however, are known to be reversive up to a certain point, while mild stress can have positive effects on plants in terms of harvest product composition and other quality parameters. Decisions on actions to be taken are usually done from experience where commercially used standard sensor information is used. As for scientific work high-tech sensor technologies were developed for measuring plant physiological responses more or less directly, those ‘phenotyping’ equipment can be used for detailed measurements