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Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States Stipend about USD 6,857 per month, plus USD 691.68 per month Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The USDA-ARS Eastern Regional Research Center in Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, is offering a postdoctoral fellowship in its foodborne pathogens research unit. The fellow will work on new detection methods and on stress responses of pathogens such as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes in complex food matrices.

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Salamanca, Castile and León, Spain Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Salamanca is recruiting a predoctoral researcher on a Spanish FPI contract at its Faculty of Pharmacy. The PhD project studies the chemical, colloidal and sensory stability of low-alcohol wines, including phenolic compounds, oxidation, colour, mouthfeel and oenological biopolymers.

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Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal Monthly stipend EUR 1,090.98 Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Portugal's national agricultural and veterinary research institute INIAV is offering a one-year research scholarship for a graduate enrolled in a Master's programme, based in Oeiras. The holder will help optimise traditional olive oil and cheese processing and develop new food products within the Interreg Spain-Portugal ATIDRAI-AGRO agri-food innovation project.

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Beltsville, Maryland or Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania, United States Stipend USD 80,000 to 110,000 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service is offering a postdoctoral fellowship at its Environmental Microbial and Food Safety Laboratory, based at Beltsville (Maryland) or Wyndmoor (Pennsylvania). The fellow will develop optical sensing and AI methods for rapid food safety inspection, such as identifying foodborne bacteria and detecting aflatoxin in corn.

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Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy Gross annual pay EUR 40,197.04 Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Free University of Bozen-Bolzano is hiring one research contract holder in food science and technology, supervised by Prof. Giovanna Ferrentino. The researcher will optimise sustainable extraction and purification of polyphenols from grape pomace and apple peels, characterise them by LC-MS and encapsulate them, within the BRIDGE project on natural compounds against protein aggregation in neurodegenerative disease.

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Athens, Georgia, United States Stipend about USD 6,500 per month Experience not specifiedOn-site

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USDA-ARS in Athens, Georgia, is offering a postdoctoral fellowship on Salmonella persistence in pasture-based poultry production. The fellow will combine phenotypic work, whole-genome sequencing and transcriptomics to support pre-harvest strategies that cut Salmonella contamination and improve food safety.

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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Stipend USD 74,678 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The USDA-ARS Food Processing and Sensory Quality unit in New Orleans is offering a postdoctoral fellowship on food allergens. The fellow will use protein chemistry, mass spectrometry and molecular biology to characterise peanut and tree nut allergens and how they bind IgE antibodies, including how processing changes allergen structure.

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Byron, Georgia, United States Stipend about USD 5,899 to 7,666 per month Experience not specifiedOn-site

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USDA-ARS in Byron, Georgia, is offering a postdoctoral-level fellowship on food safety in pecan production and processing. The fellow will identify, test and validate new control methods, especially end-of-process kill steps, against Salmonella, pathogenic E. coli and Listeria monocytogenes on pecan kernels.

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Dois Portos, Torres Vedras, Portugal Monthly stipend EUR 1,090.98 Experience not specifiedOn-site

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INIAV is offering a one-year research scholarship at its Dois Portos innovation hub (National Viticulture Station) for a graduate enrolled in a Master's programme. The holder will study alternative technologies for ageing wine spirits with native and exotic woods in the Lourinhã region, within the Interreg Spain-Portugal ATIDRAI-AGRO project.

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Santiago de Compostela, Spain MSCA allowances per month (total employment cost before dedu Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The FoodChemPack group at the University of Santiago de Compostela is hiring a doctoral candidate to develop polysaccharide aerogels carrying tannins recovered from agro-industrial side streams for antioxidant and antimicrobial food-contact packaging. The project also covers migration testing and safety assessment.

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Gothenburg, Sweden SEK 35,725 per month (from 1 May 2026) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Chalmers University of Technology's Division of Food and Nutrition Science is hiring a fully funded doctoral student to study how nutrition affects human health at the molecular level using metabolomics, microbiome and other omics data. The post is in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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Bragança, Portugal EUR 1,359.64 per month (research grant) plus personal accide Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Polytechnic Institute of Bragança is offering a research grant in the PRIMA-funded OLIVEPACK project, which develops bio-based antimicrobial packaging to extend the shelf life of naturally fermented, low-salt table olives. The grant holder works in the Agro-industries Laboratory of the Mountain Research Centre in Bragança, Portugal.

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