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Caen, France EUR 27,600 gross per year (doctoral contract, 36 months) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Université de Caen Normandie (ABTE) offers a 36-month funded PhD in the FOAMAT project, testing foam flow as a lower-resource alternative to clean-in-place for milking systems. The work combines foam physical chemistry, millifluidic experiments and CFD modelling, with pilot trials alongside ACTALIA and Institut de l'Élevage, and starts on 1 January 2027.

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

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Middle East Technical University's Department of Food Engineering in Ankara is recruiting Doctoral Candidate DC8 in the EU-funded MSCA FAroGels network. On a 36-month contract, the candidate develops moisture-tolerant, food-contact-safe aerogels from cellulose, alginate and chitosan to replace petroleum-based cushioning foams in food transport, supervised with the University of Udine and Barilla.

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Nottingham, United Kingdom Full tuition fees plus a tax-free stipend (amount not stated Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Nottingham's Food Systems Institute offers a fully funded PhD on nutritional vulnerability during food supply disruptions, with Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham City Council. The project studies how shocks such as climate events, economic crises, supply chain failures and pandemics affect nutrition across different groups, and builds a Nutritional Vulnerability Risk Matrix for emergency planning.

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Burjassot, Valencia, Spain Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Senior researcher (PhD) post in the Food Science and Toxicology department leading a line on developing foods with innovative, sustainable technologies to improve structure and nutrition, within the WHEATBIOME project.

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Porto, Portugal EUR 1,359.64 to 1,399.64 per month (FCT grant table) Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP) offers one research grant in the Val2Food project, which extracts bioactive compounds from tomato, apple and sea-buckthorn processing residues (from Silver Rom Agro) to make functional packaging that extends food shelf life. The grant runs for an initial 6 months from November 2026 under Dr Andreia Ribeiro in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering.

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Fort Collins, Colorado, USA USD 60,000 to 65,000 per year plus benefits Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Colorado State University is hiring a full-time, on-site Postdoctoral Scientist in Fort Collins to lead nutrient composition analysis in the Washington Research Foundation-funded 'Optimizing Human Health and Nutrition from Soil to Society' project. The work uses Periodic Table of Food Initiative methods, high-resolution LC-MS and nontargeted metabolomics.

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Stuttgart, Germany Pay not disclosed Experience not specifiedOn-site

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The University of Hohenheim's Department of Plant-based Foods offers a PhD on real-time monitoring for advanced food production. The project develops and applies imaging and data-driven monitoring tools to understand how food materials behave under real processing conditions, from lab-scale experiments to pilot plant, including 3D printing.

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Dijon, France EUR 2,417 to 2,550 gross per month Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Université Bourgogne Europe and Institut Agro Dijon (UMR PAM, AFIM team) are hiring a postdoctoral researcher in microbiology for 12 months from 23 November 2026. The project studies how the yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima inhibits food spoilage microorganisms, focusing on pulcherriminic acid, killer toxins and single-cell interactions studied with microfluidics and live imaging.

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Oeiras, Portugal FCT research grant table for master's holders (amount not st Experience not specifiedOn-site

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ITQB NOVA in Oeiras offers a 7-month master's research fellowship (ref. 068/BI/2026) in the PRIMA-funded INTACTBioPack project, which develops intelligent, active, microbiome-based biodegradable packaging for Mediterranean foods. Working in Professor Cristina Silva Pereira's Applied and Environmental Mycology Laboratory, the fellow prepares and characterises materials coated with encapsulated microbes.

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Vienna, Austria At least EUR 2,832.10 gross per month, paid 14 times a year Experience not specifiedOn-site

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BOKU University in Vienna (Institute of Food Technology) is hiring a Postgraduate Research Associate for 30 hours a week from 1 December 2026 to 30 November 2027, with an option to extend. The role combines research and teaching in cereal and baking technology with a PhD focused on bakery products from alternative grains.

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Université Laval in Quebec City offers three funded PhD projects in food virology under Professor Julie Jean's VIR.AL partnership research chair. The projects study viruses in berries, pork products and dairy products, including viral persistence, methods to detect infectious particles and processing treatments or natural compounds that reduce infectivity.

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Pullman, Washington, USA USD 62,232 to 65,000 per year plus benefits Experience not specifiedOn-site

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Washington State University's School of Food Science in Pullman is hiring a full-time Postdoctoral Research Associate for 12 months in food safety, microbiology and data science. The postdoc designs and leads interdisciplinary studies on pathogenic bacteria, contamination, interventions and risk reduction across food systems.

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