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Bachelor's and master's theses
IGB offers the opportunity to write your bachelor's or master’s thesis, provided that both sides express a mutual interest and a suitable topic is available. Please contact the relevant scientists from the departments.
Internships
Each year, we offer a limited number of internships. These can be either mandatory internships (for pupils and students) or voluntary internships for a duration of up to four weeks. Longer periods can also be arranged on a case-by-case basis. Interns can be deployed in any of IGB’s research departments. Please send your unsolicited application, containing a letter of motivation, Curriculum Vitae and certificates, as a single pdf file by email to the secretary’s office of the department that interests you:
- (Dept. 1) Ecohydrology and Biogeochemistry >
Contact person: sylvia.kanzler(at)igb-berlin.de - (Dept. 2) Community and Ecosystem Ecology >
Contact person: nadine.rymarczyk(at)igb-berlin.de - (Dept. 3) Plankton and Microbial Ecology >
Contact person: susanne.schuetz(at)igb-berlin.de und manuela.rauschenbach(at)igb-berlin.de - (Dept. 4) Fish Biology, Fisheries and Aquaculture >
Contact person: susanne.joop(at)igb-berlin.de - (Dept. 5) Evolutionary and Integrative Ecology >
Contact person: nadine.rymarczyk(at)igb-berlin.de
Our secretaries will then forward your documents to the relevant members of staff. After reviewing whether we will be able to accept you for the specified period, we will contact you. We look forward to receiving your application at any time of the year!
Voluntary ecological year (FÖJ)
Young people also have the opportunity to serve a voluntary ecological year our two locations in Berlin and Brandenburg, starting on 1 September each year. In this context, we work closely with the supporting organisations Jugendwerk Aufbau Ost (JAO) and the Vereinigung Junger Freiwilliger (VJF) in Berlin as well as the Internationale Jugendgemeinschaftsdienste (ijgd) in Brandenburg.
We offer participants insights into:
- Scientific work for career orientation
- Skills in laboratory practice, conducting experiments, handling chemicals
- The responsible handling of laboratory animals
- Independently preparing experiments and processing samples
- Assisting in conducting experiments, data collection and evaluation
In addition, scientific lectures and presentations take place two to four times a month, and all FÖJ participants are cordially invited to attend.
The following specific opportunities are available in various working groups:
Berlin
- Breeding and reintroducing the sturgeon/aquaculture
(husbandry, feeding, changing water, weighing) - Fish behaviour/individual behaviour, swarming behaviour and animal welfare
(fish care, Robofish, experiments, evaluation of behavioural experiments) - Supporting experiments in the Daphnia lab
- Assistance in the chemistry laboratory analysing water samples for their constituents
(sampling and measurements in the field) - Supporting laboratory and field experiments with aquatic plants and periphyton
(chemical laboratory and data analyses, Chla chromatograms, microscopic counting of growth organisms) - Processing of invertebrate samples from the long-term lake monitoring programme
(sampling, sorting and identifying macrozoobenthos from Müggelsee and Stechlinsee, preparation and post-processing of filters for C/N determination)
Your contact person at IGB is Asja Vogt. If you are interested in serving a Voluntary Ecological Year at IGB, please first contact one of the above mentioned supporting organisations.
Neuglobsow
- Hands-on involvement in field work, e.g. sampling on Lake Stechlin and experiments on the LakeLab platform.
- Learning and applying methods of water analysis, e.g. preparing water samples for chemical nutrient and biological laboratory analyses.
- Data collection and maintenance, e.g. carrying out measurements with various probes and subsequent data processing.
Your contact person at IGB is Katharina Makower If you are interested in serving a Voluntary Ecological Year at IGB, please first contact the above mentioned supporting organisation.
