Big thanks for supporting our work on #NitrogenFixation #TraceGases and #VOCs... now possible to measure online and everywhere we want! #StayCurious @yijiao.bsky.social @riikkarinnan.bsky.social @voltcenter.bsky.social
📣 Vacancy: Two year postdoc in #VOC biogeochemistry, as part of my young investigator grant funded by @villumfonden.bsky.social.
Successful candidate will join @voltcenter.bsky.social in Copenhagen led by @riikkarinnan.bsky.social.
Learn more about the position and apply here ⬇️
This week we had the pleasure of hosting the @dg.dk annual visit to @voltcenter.bsky.social. As always, it was time to reflect on the success of the past year, and what a joy it was to relive all the highlights through @riikkarinnan.bsky.social's presentation!
Based at @voltcenter.bsky.social you will pioneer research into VOC production & consumption by microorganisms living on ice. You will combine field and incubation experiments, advanced mass spectrometry, and molecular sequencing.
employment.ku.dk/phd?show=165...
Deadline 15 November 2025.
Possibly the coolest PhD job available at the moment!
❄️❄️❄️Microbial VOC Exchange in Arctic Glacier Ecosystems❄️ ❄️❄️
🌇Copenhagen, Denmark
The supervisor team includes @alexanesio.bsky.social, Anders Priemé & @riikkarinnan.bsky.social
employment.ku.dk/phd?show=165...
Deadline 15 November 2025.
❗Job alert❗
VOLT is looking PhD students for 2 exciting projects, please apply or share with your network!
#PhD fellowship in #microbial #Volatile Organic Compound exchange in #Arctic #glacier #ecosystems: employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...
The @voltcenter.bsky.social #hackathon is finally here! Everone is looking very focussed working on creative ways to achieve accurate, meaningful and beautiful #data #visualuzation!
Sometimes science is field work, sometimes it is lab work, computer work, discussions, presentations... and sometimes it is executing plan B and driving a highly sensitive and sophisticated scientific instrument across four countries and over 1500 kilometers!
www.ionicon.com/blog/2025/a-...
Really enjoyed the annual @voltcenter.bsky.social retreat with great colleagues - two days of science, creativity, and connection. Great energy to carry into the rest of the academic year!
We just received a "postcard" from #Barcelona!
@voltcenter.bsky.social's postdoc Cecilia Costas Selas and PhD student Eve Galen are attending the #SAME18 #aquatic #microbes #conference.
Enjoy the sunshine and the talks, posters and discussions!
Last weekend, VOLT joined the #Fungi Festival🍄🍄🟫.
Visitors got to hear a talk on hidden #fungaldiversity in #caves, and explored a collaborative booth. Here they could peek at fungal cultures under a microscope🔬, watch a short film highlighting the research, and learn about cave fungi and #VOCs.
Illustration of a branch of Betula glandulosa (Resin birch). Illustration by Alberto S. Ballesteros (@asbillustration.bsky.social).
🌲 Boreal-tundra species drive Arctic plant borealization 🌲
Our new study in #EcologyLetters quantifies tundra plant borealization, assesses its main drivers and identifies the species & traits contributing to borealization.
doi.org/10.1111/ele....
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Every year on week 37 @voltcenter.bsky.social goes away for two days of science, fun, inspiration and team building. Here are some of the many highlights in thread:
Floating chamber measurements
Researcher working with floating chambers
📣New paper📣
We measured #VOC & #CO2 fluxes from 3 ponds in a peatland forest using floating chambers. Understanding of freshwater ecosystems as VOC sources is poor, so this work led by Y. Qin, published in #ASLO_LO provides important new data.
doi.org/10.1002/lno....
@dg.dk @voltcenter.bsky.social
Monday mornings are for breakfast journal clubs. 😋🤓
At @voltcenter.bsky.social we started the week with a discussion on #microbial #ecological strategies, led by postdoc Jonathan Donhauser.
Clean-up day at BIO!🧹 VOLT members came together to organize and clean our shared spaces 💻🔬🧪. With teamwork, enthusiasm (and cake!), we now have refreshed workspaces to support our projects.
#DHLrace day! The @voltcenter.bsky.social team is ready and in high spirits. Bring on those 25k per team! 🏃♀️🏃💨💪
Another late night in the lab… and between sampling points I made this inspired by my #Sphagnum #moss floating in my vials #uArctic_project #scienceart #midnightart @voltcenter.bsky.social
We are now (mostly) all done with holiday and field work, and we kick off being back in the office with a breakfast journal club hosted by postdoc Mehrshad Foroughan on new insights in #climate #science.
How is your lab coming back into the swing of things?
Today we welcomed Professor Sándor Gonda from the University of Debrecen, for a guest talk on plant-microbe interactions at the plant metabolome level in horseradish. He shared interesting insights on a species that most of us had never studied before! 🌱
Thank you!💚
I am surprised, deeply honored, and thrilled to share I've been appointed as a Lead Author for the @ipcc.bsky.social Seventh Assessment Report (AR7 WGI)!
I will be contributing to Chapter 4, "Advances in process understanding of Earth system changes" - a topic close to my heart.
📢 Exciting postdoc position in the @kathrinrousk.bsky.social group at @voltcenter.bsky.social 📢
Meet Mehrshad, a PostDoc at VOLT researching #VOC exchanges between the #ocean and the #atmosphere 🌊☁️. Using high-frequency measurements from a remote field site, he focuses on understanding how various physical and biological factors affect these exchanges.
This is my first time using a #PTR-TOF to track isoprene consumption over time… huge thanks to @voltcenter.bsky.social! 🤓
In the previous image, the black peaks represent #12C isoprene and the red ones show #13C isoprene. Concentrations are around 5–10 ppmv.
🏔️ spectra using 95% labelled 13C-isoprene
Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.
Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.
Volatilomic complexity of three Northern Greenland bacterial isolates across a salt gradient www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #jcampubs
Copenhagen, the best city to live in. We know all about it at @voltcenter.bsky.social - an international bunch living in the happy city.
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Peatland VOC flux measurements in the beautiful #StoreMosseNationalPark. Nice collaboration between @yijiao.bsky.social @voltcenter.bsky.social and @unpeatable.bsky.social.
Funding from @villumfonden.bsky.social @dg.dk
