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Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position to develop and apply advanced mass spectrometry and data analysis methods to investigate plant-microbe interactions in soil, within the research group of Assoc. Prof. Marianne Glasius at the Department of Chemistry, Aarhus University, Denmark.Expected start date and duration of employmentThis is a 23 month position from 1 October 2025 or as soon possible thereafter.Job descriptionNitrogen is essential for plant growth, but soil reserves are far from sufficient for high crop yields. Diazotrophs are soil bacteria that are capable of biological nitrogen fixation, while they can use metabolites released by plants to grow and fix nitrogen. There is thus an incentive to use natural diazotrophs as nitrogen suppliers and to limit chemical ferti...