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Elvas, Portugal EUR 1,090.98 per month Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Portugal's National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV) offers a research scholarship at its Elvas Innovation Hub under the Interreg ATIDRAI-AGRO agri-food project. The fellow will support breeding, conservation and valorisation of native olive varieties and help optimise processing methods for traditional products, mainly olive oil.

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Vila Real, Portugal EUR 1,309.64 per month (FCT scale) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Tras-os-Montes and Alto Douro (UTAD) offers a research grant in its Wine Microbiology and Biotechnology Lab in Vila Real for the SABBIN project on bioeconomy and biocontrol in the northern Portuguese wine industry. The fellow will map the regional incidence of the spoilage yeast Brettanomyces, develop tools to detect it and develop biological preservation formulations.

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Porto, Portugal EUR 1,090.98 per month (living allowance) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Faculty of Pharmacy of the University of Porto offers a research fellowship (BI) in the SMARTKITCHEN project, which develops microbial analysis, predictive environmental monitoring and biocontrol to improve food safety in large-scale foodservices. The fellow will identify and type indicator and pathogenic bacteria and test their susceptibility to biocides, working at UCIBIO/FFUP and the Faculty of Nutrition and Food Sciences (FCNAUP).

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Beja, Portugal EUR 1,499.15 or EUR 1,762.31 gross per month (depending on e 1+ yearsOn-site

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CEBAL in Beja is recruiting a master's graduate for the OLIVEtoCLIMATECHANGE project, which studies how traditional Portuguese olive cultivars cope with extreme climate scenarios and pests. The researcher will establish the sensory profiles of PDO olive oils from Baixo Alentejo and characterise traditional cultivars chemically and sensorially.

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Fort Valley State University, Georgia's 1890 land-grant university, is hiring a postdoctoral research associate for two to three years at its Agricultural Research Station. The project studies food quality issues in pecans within the College of Agriculture, Family Sciences and Technology.

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Porto, Portugal EUR 1,359.64 per month (FCT stipend) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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REQUIMTE is offering a research fellowship (BI) in food chemistry within the ResiQWear project at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Porto. The fellow will extract phenolics, anthocyanins, polysaccharides and chitosan from agro-industrial by-products using green methods and encapsulate them in natural biopolymer nanocapsules.

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Porto, Portugal EUR 1,393.88 per month (Level 14, Single Salary Table) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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REQUIMTE is hiring a master's-level research technician for the ERC project BeTASTy on new molecular and cell-based approaches to assess food astringency and bitterness. The work, at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry of the University of Porto, studies how polyphenols and other taste-active compounds interact with the oral cavity, using cell culture models, chromatography and sensory panels.

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Diadema, Sao Paulo, Brazil R$ 12,570 per month plus a research contingency fund of 10% Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Federal University of Sao Paulo is offering a FAPESP postdoctoral fellowship in mass spectrometry for the CEPID ARIES Antimicrobial Resistance Institute of Sao Paulo, based at ICAQF-Unifesp in Diadema. The fellow will develop miniaturised, greener extraction methods, including low-temperature partitioning and molecularly imprinted sorbents, to isolate organic analytes from complex food, environmental and microbiological samples.

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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States USD 55,000 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture is hiring a post-doctoral fellow in Fayetteville to support Dr. Wang's lab on poultry processing automation. The fellow will run research, help manage the lab and write grant proposals, drawing on food engineering, machine vision, electronics and AI.

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Barcelona, Spain Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Universitat de Barcelona's Faculty of Pharmacy and Food Science is hiring a PhD candidate for the GO-mulching project on drought-fighting agronomic strategies in vineyards, from keyline design to mulching. The doctoral thesis, within the UB Food and Nutrition PhD programme, includes analysing volatile and bioactive compounds in harvested crops alongside soil, water and microbiome work.

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Fayetteville, Arkansas, United States USD 61,735 per year 2+ yearsOn-site

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The University of Arkansas Institute for Integrative and Innovative Research (I3R) is hiring a post-doctoral fellow in Fayetteville for its team on integrative health through healthy food and health technologies. Candidates can bring expertise in food systems and food technology (including cellular agriculture and nutrition), health technology or cross-cutting areas such as AI and regulatory science, with a focus on translating research into products.

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Girona, Catalonia, Spain Annual gross salary from the EPIF minimum up to EUR 29,000 Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) in Girona is hiring a predoctoral researcher for a four-year PhD contract in the FOODTRACK project. The doctoral thesis will trace microbial communities, antibiotic resistance genes and mobile genetic elements along the food-human-wastewater chain, using food baskets, human faecal samples and urban wastewater.

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