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Welcome to the homepage of Lars L. Iversen - Freshwater kid and PhD Fellow from Copenhagen, Denmark,
 

Join us! We are recruiting a PhD student in functional freshwater ecology

Lars Iversen

How do complex life cycles shape freshwater biodiversity?

Freshwater insects live in two worlds. They develop underwater before emerging into terrestrial ecosystems as adults, exposing them to fundamentally different environmental conditions throughout their lives. How these contrasting life stages influence community assembly, biodiversity patterns, and ecosystem responses remains a major unanswered question in freshwater ecology.

We are seeking a fully funded PhD student to investigate how life-history strategies shape freshwater community-environment relationships across local habitats, watersheds, and continental gradients. Starting date 2027

The project combines functional ecology, community ecology, and biogeography using continental-scale functional trait databases together with field-collected dragonfly community and trait data from lakes across southern Québec. The student will integrate field observations with hierarchical ecological models to better understand how biodiversity responds to environmental change across scales.

The project forms part of the NSERC Alliance "Altered Lakes, Transformed Roles (ALTR)", a five-year collaborative research program involving researchers from universities and government agencies across Canada. The successful candidate will develop a unique combination of field, analytical, and quantitative skills through training in freshwater ecology, functional ecology, spatial modelling, and biodiversity science while working within one of Canada's largest freshwater research collaborations.

We welcome applications from students holding either a Bachelor's (Honours) or Master's degree in Biology, Ecology, Environmental Science, or a related discipline. The candidate is expected to have strong quantitative analytical skills, or a motivation to develop such. The ideal candidate will demonstrate a working proficiency in one or more of the programming languages commonly used in data science (e.g. Python or R) and experience working in the field

The student will be supervised by Professor Lars L. Iversen (McGill University) and Dr. Zofia Taranu (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and will join an outstanding research community through McGill University. Further information about the Department of Biology can be found at www.mcgill.ca/biology and detailed information on the research conducted in the Iversen lab can be found at www.lifeinmud.com and the Taranu lab at www.zofiaecaterinataranu.weebly.com

To apply, please send a cover letter describing your research background, research interests, and qualifications; a copy of your most recent transcript as well as a complete curriculum vitae to lars.iversen@mcgill.ca

Applications will be reviewed beginning July 2026 and will remain open until the position is filled.

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Come meet us at the ASLO-SIL 2026 meeting

Lars Iversen

Please check out Life in Mud lab members’ talks, posters, and sessions at the ASLO 2026 meeting! Below is an overview of where you can find us throughout the conference.

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Lars Iversen

Starting a new lab at McGill University

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In January 2022 I will be moving my research to McGill University, Canada. In the new lab we will expand our work on freshwater ecosystems and how these are responding to global change. Both within Canada and across the globe we will document how functional adaptations to life in freshwater environments structure species distributions and how human impacts challenge the future of freshwater functions and services.

Join the lab!

We are recruiting lab members to join us at the Department of Biology at McGill University. If you are interested in spatial aspects of ecology, classic freshwater ecology, or macroecology our lab might be your fit. Although our aim is to advance freshwater ecology, interest and skills across these themes are not required in order to join the group. Through collaborations and personal development we seek to explore the broader goals in our lab while supporting personal research interests and strengths.

The lab provides a supportive and inclusive environment for members of all backgrounds to facilitate independence as scientists. We value people who have the capacity to succeed, rather than simply those who have always succeeded before. The lab provides close mentoring support via regular meetings, an open-door policy, personal development plans, and a strong community knowledge sharing between undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral researchers.

Postdoc applications are actively considered as of August 2021, graduate and undergraduate recruiting will start January 2022

Postdocs: If you found interest in our lab please email me to discuss shared research interests and potential projects. McGill has a number of fellowship opportunities, including NSERC (due Oct.), Banting (due Sept.), Liber Ero (due Nov.), and the FRQNT (due Oct.). I am happy to provide feedback on application materials.

International Postdocs are welcomed in the lab, if you have national funding opportunities to do research abroad I am happy to discuss how we can support potential applications. Researchers from China should consider the CSC program

For people interested in transnational postdocs between McGill and European partners or would like to return to a preferred European university following a postdoc in our lab we do support Global Marie Curie Fellowships (due Oct)

Grad students: I seek curious, motivated students with some prior research experience (e.g., work learn experience, undergraduate research). I have an open call for a funded position in the lab. For more info see the application flyer.

Undergrads: If you are interested in obtaining research experience during your undergraduate studies McGill offers a number of opportunities. Please explore potential opportunities here and here.

If you are interested in joining the lab as an undergrad or grad student please email your CV and a short summary of your research interests to lars.iversen@mcgill.ca

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