Your tasks: You will study the diversity of high mountain stream insects along elevational gradients in high alpine rivers. The project will focus on species and genetic data of caddisflies and non-biting midges of the Andes (Peru), the Talamanca (Costa Rica), the Pyrenees (Spain) and the Alps (Austria). Field work in the Alps will be necessary. Additional research aspects will involve niche modelling. You will join a highly motivated project team comprising researchers and PhD students from the University of Barcelona, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, University of Costa Rica and Cayetano Heredia University, Peru. The workplace is Frankfurt, Germany, where you will join 10 scientists and research support staff working in the group of Prof. Dr. Pauls on molecula