Doctoral researcher Nina Cossin-Sevrin studied how stress and unfavourable living conditions affect the metabolic efficiency of birds, and what effects this has on, for example, their growth or reproduction.
New doctoral research explores how people from refugee backgrounds experience citizenship and how they navigate their everyday lives before and after their legal status is regularised.
Doctoral Candidate Tapani Hopkins collected over 100,000 parasitoid wasps from the tropical forest of Uganda during his doctoral dissertation. Current results suggest that there is a diverse parasitoid wasp fauna still awaiting discovery in tropical Africa. His dissertation defence on rhyssine wasp species, their ecology, and how their diversity compares to Amazonia will be held online. Questions are welcome after the event.
BGG doctoral programme offers its doctoral researchers a multidisciplinary environment and support, organizes events and thematic courses, and awards travel grants and grants for completing a doctoral degree. A major asset is the internationality of BGG. Around 30% of our doctoral researchers are international. BGG thus has a multicultural atmosphere stimulating all doctoral researchers to look beyond their immediate surroundings and exposing them to peers with various background and experiences.
The Doctoral Programme in Biology, Geography and Geology (BGG) is a multidisciplinary doctoral programme that educates specialists with wide knowledge on natural science research.