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Reading, United Kingdom £37,369-£43,099 per year (Grade 6) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Postdoc leading a work package of the Horizon Europe LESS MALNUTRITION project on ready-to-use therapeutic foods from local ingredients in Nigeria, Ethiopia and South Africa.

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Aarhus, Denmark Salaried PhD (Danish academic scale, grades 4-8) plus monthl Experience not specifiedOn-site

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PhD developing 13C NMR and sensitivity-enhanced (d-DNP) approaches for foodomics, applied to foods from alternative sources or novel biotech processing.

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Wageningen, Netherlands €3,204–€4,051 gross/month, 38 hours/week Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Funded socio-legal doctoral research on Dutch short food supply chains through the SOCIAL AGRI project. Dutch and English C1 are required.

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Two-year Food Science postdoc on sustainable packaging, food labelling and circularity, starting 1 January 2027.

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Wageningen, Netherlands €3,204–€4,051 gross/month, 38 hours/week Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Funded doctoral research on how food properties affect children’s eating and energy intake. Dutch and English proficiency are required.

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Food Science postdoc on scaling, flavour, nutrition and culture-media recycling for cultivated meat; expected start 1 February 2027.

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Palaiseau, France Fully funded 3-year PhD (Carnot Qualiment); amount not state Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The SayFood research unit (INRAE, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay) in Palaiseau offers a three-year PhD, funded by Carnot Qualiment, on bioinspired robotics and food oral processing. Directed by Marco Ramaioli and Anne Saint-Eve, the project studies how food structure affects salivation, chewing, texture perception and swallowing, using real-time sensors and soft-robotic mouth models calibrated with human and sensory studies.

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The Laboratoire Universitaire de Biodiversité et Ecologie Microbienne (LUBEM) at the University of Western Brittany in Plouzané offers a PhD on the microbial ecology and food safety risks of Loog Pang, a traditional Thai fermentation starter. Part of the 13-partner MYCOBIOMICS 2.0 network, the project maps fungal and bacterial communities, checks for risks such as mycotoxins and designs tailored starter consortia, with research stays at BIOTEC in Thailand.

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The University of Barcelona's Department of Nutrition, Food Sciences and Gastronomy is hiring a postdoctoral researcher for the Food4HAging precision-nutrition project. The postdoc runs the chemical analysis lab and uses LC-MS to measure diet, microbiota and environmental biomarkers in very old adults at risk of frailty from the Toledo study cohort.

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Madrid, Spain EUR 24,360 gross per year in years 1-3; EUR 25,920 in year 4 Experience not specifiedOn-site

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IMDEA Nutrition (IMDEA Food Institute) in Madrid is recruiting a predoctoral researcher under grant PREP2025-004317 to do a PhD in the EV-NutriFlow project. The thesis studies food-derived extracellular vesicles as carriers of bioactive compounds, including their stability, digestion, functionality and safety, on a full-time contract of up to four years.

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Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland EUR 45,520 - 49,889 per year (Post Doc Level 1) 0–3 yearsOn-site

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Teagasc is hiring a Post-Doctoral Researcher (microbiologist or cell biologist) in its Food Biosciences Department at Moorepark, Co. Cork, on a temporary contract of about 7 months. The researcher works on the PLANTIALLERGY project, making plant-based fermented foods and testing their effects on the gut microbiota of children with egg and milk allergies using colon models and 16S sequencing.

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Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland EUR 45,520 - 53,927 per year (Post Doc combined scale) 0–3 yearsOn-site

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Teagasc is hiring a Post-Doctoral Fellow (Level 1/2) in plant fractionation at its Food Research Centre in Moorepark, Co. Cork, on a temporary contract of about 48 months. The fellow works on the DAFM-funded VIP-Ingredients project, running pilot-plant extraction of protein, starch and fibre from Irish fava bean and oats and testing their functionality in plant-based foods.

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