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“Prospective PhD student seeking to study biogeography and evolutionary biology“
Dear Dr. Jasmine,
I attended yours and Professor Aladin’s course “Species and Speciation“ in 2012, where I have very much enjoyed my course project on phylogenetic biome conservatism. I am now seeking for a PhD project in evolutionary biology, if required as a self-funded student. Your research field and the possible master projects listed on your XXX website corresponds very much my interests. Therefore I would like to inquire whether you have projects for which you are searching PhD students. Is there a possibility that the master projects on the list could be planned as PhD project?
I hold a master degree in ecology from the University of XXX and wrote my master thesis, supervised by Dr. Djini, on within-species diversification (in Rana temporaria) driven by anthropogenic environmental impacts. I’ve recently accomplished a research internship in the field of evolutionary ecology at ZZZ, where I analyzed genetic variation in silver fir (Abies alba) along environmental gradients as well as geographic patterns. I had the opportunity to present the results at the Coconut Conference 2013 at VVV.
I am seeking to do my PhD in a concept-driven group. Therefore I am generally interested in evolutionary mechanism and processes, adaptive potential and strategies of species/populations to altering environmental conditions, selective forces shaping traits, constraints in evolution, diversification, species concepts, phylogenetics and biodiversity.
During masters studies I have mainly gained experiences in quantitative genetics, ecological modeling and comparative studies in evolutionary biology. As an undergraduate student I have also very much enjoyed projects and courses in genomic evolution and phylogenetic analysis, as well as the use of molecular techniques and analysis (PCR, Sequencing, alignments etc.). I am highly motivated to do lab work and/or fieldwork, as well as statistical and modeling approaches.
I know you are very busy so I appreciate any time you can give me to discuss the possibility of doing a PhD under your supervision. If you need any information, which I did not provide in this mail, lease let me know.
Thank you in advance for your time.
Sincerely
Vielen vielen Dank schonmal
