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Albany, California, United States Stipend about USD 87,803 per year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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USDA's Agricultural Research Service offers a full-time ORISE postdoctoral fellowship at its Healthy Processed Foods Research unit in Albany, California. The fellow helps develop value-added food ingredients from agro-industrial crops and by-products through fermentation, improving functionality, nutrition and flavour; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Settsu, Osaka, Japan From JPY 5 million per year plus allowances Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Japan's National Institutes of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition (NIBN) is hiring one full-time researcher for the Research Collaboration Promotion Office of its Center for Industry-Government-Academia Collaborative Research in Settsu, Osaka. The researcher advances a joint project on healthy food environments, puts Japan's nutrient profiling model into practice and works on reducing health disparities; the fixed-term post runs from 1 April 2027 to 31 March 2030.

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

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USDA's Agricultural Research Service offers a full-time ORISE postdoctoral fellowship in the Characterization and Interventions for Foodborne Pathogens unit at the Eastern Regional Research Center, Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania. The fellow helps develop rapid, field-deployable methods to detect pathogens such as Shiga toxin-producing E. coli, Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes in foods without culture enrichment; applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

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Queensland, Australia AUD 47,000 per year tax-exempt stipend (2025 rate) plus AUD Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Southern Queensland, with CSIRO, offers an industry PhD (iPhD) scholarship on red meat functionality. The project uses new technology platforms to turn commodity red meat and by-products into functional food ingredients such as high-protein and high-iron foods and collagen nutraceuticals, improving carcass use.

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Zaragoza, Spain Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Zaragoza is hiring one predoctoral researcher for the Interreg POCTEFA project BIOAQUAPEF, based at the Instituto Agroalimentario de Aragón. The project builds a cascade biorefinery that uses pulsed electric fields (PEF) to obtain alternative proteins and other biomolecules from microalgae and macroalgae, with a start date of 1 December 2026.

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The University of Copenhagen's Department of Food Science and Niels Bohr Institute offer a three-year PhD fellowship to work out the molecular structure of casein micelles in milk, with a focus on kappa-casein. The project combines molecular dynamics simulations with X-ray and neutron scattering, as part of the CaIFF centre for neutron studies of food and pharma colloids, starting 1 January 2027 or soon after.

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Georgia, USA Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Assistant Professor Lingling Liu is recruiting a PhD student to join her group for a Spring 2027 or Fall 2027 start. The post does not describe a specific project.

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Portugal EUR 1,901 per month (FCT grant table) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Portugal's National Institute of Health Doutor Ricardo Jorge (INSA), Food and Nutrition Department, offers one research scholarship for a PhD holder in the Horizon Europe PARC partnership on chemical risk assessment (reference DAN/PARC/2026/01). The scholar works on innovation in regulatory risk assessment with a food toxicology focus, under Dr Ricardo Assunção in Lisbon.

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Konya, Turkey MSCA doctoral network employment contract (amount not stated Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Superex (Pard Mühendislik ve Otomasyon) in Konya is recruiting Doctoral Candidate DC4 in the EU-funded MSCA FAroGels network on food-grade, bio-based aerogels, with the PhD awarded by Selçuk University. Over a 36-month contract the candidate builds a semi-automated supercritical CO2 dryer with real-time sensors and a machine-learning control module so that food aerogels can be dried reproducibly.

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Amherst, Massachusetts, USA PhD fully funded for 4 years (stipend and tuition); MS fundi Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Grossmann Lab at the University of Massachusetts Amherst is recruiting two graduate students for spring 2027. A fully funded four-year PhD will develop next-generation protein ingredients through microbial protein expression (precision fermentation), and an MS student will work on fermentation and high-moisture extrusion.

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London, United Kingdom Full tuition fees plus GBP 25,000 per year tax-free for 42 m Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Imperial College London's Department of Chemical Engineering offers a funded PhD with Prof Karen Polizzi on engineering biology for food and medicines. The project develops recombinant protein expression systems, both cell-based and cell-free, for uses such as vaccines and alternative proteins, and is open to applicants of any fee status.

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ETH Zurich's Laboratory of Epigenetics, Nutrition and Metabolism and Sustainable Food Processing Group are recruiting a doctoral student for their joint research line on microalgae and plant-based foods in human nutrition. The PhD evaluates novel mineral sources such as microalgae for treating iron, zinc, calcium and magnesium deficiencies, mainly through human clinical trials on absorption and bioavailability.

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