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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=IT link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Dear colleagues,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify;margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=EN-US>The Department of Agri-food Production and Environmental Sciences - University of Florence (DiSPAA-UNIFI) is recruiting <b><i>a PhD student for crop modelling studies on designing wheat ideotypes for a changing climate</i></b>. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Thus, please circulate this email to who may be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US>Marco Bindi<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='text-align:justify'><span lang=EN-GB>The<b> </b>PhD position is as part of the research activity the DiSPAA-UNIFI is carrying out in the MACSUR and AgMIP projects to study adaptation strategies to cope with climate change. The core of the PhD activity is on crop modelling and the successful candidate will work with wheat crop simulation model within a research group coordinated by Prof. Marco Bindi. More specifically, the PhD student will have to carry out research activities dealing with crop modelling, programming and data analysis.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Applications will have to be submitted in July (Opening and closing dates for applications and other info will be available at the beginning of July with the publication of the Doctoral Regulation). The applicants will be selected by oral examination including the evaluation of CV and presented research project. CV has to be presented in European format (Europass). For applicants who are not resident in Italy, it will be possible to take the oral examination in English by Skype, if required in the online application.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The Research project has to be prepared in Italian or English in no more than 12000 characters including spacing, and structured in introduction, state of the art, objectives, materials and methods, expected results for one of the priorities of interest that have been selected (in this case “Designing wheat ideotypes for a changing climate”)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The positions are funded based on fixed term contracts for 36 months starting around the beginning of November 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Payment will be based on the Italian Salary for PhD students (net annual salary of around 13500 Euro)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Interested candidates may contact Prof. Marco Bindi to have more details on the application:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Prof. Dr. Marco Bindi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Department of Agri-food Production and Environmental Sciences -<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>University of Florence<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Piazzale delle Cascine 18<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>50144 Firenze. </span><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Italia<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Tel: +39 0552755791<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Mobile phone: 3485650868 or 3291791448<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>E-mail: <a href="mailto:marco.bindi@unifi.it">marco.bindi@unifi.it</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-bottom:dotted windowtext 3.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 1.0pt 0cm'><p style='margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span lang=EN-GB style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Skype: markigno61<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>