PhD scholarship in Absolute Sustainability of food production - DTU Sustain

If you are looking to establish yourself as a researcher at the intersection of absolute sustainability assessment and innovation towards sustainable food production, this PhD position offers a unique opportunity.

At DTU's Centre for Absolute Sustainability, you will help develop new approaches that enable companies and technology developers to analyse and identify food production systems and technologies that can enable a transformation of national and global food production to operate within planetary boundaries.

Working closely with leading researchers from DTU Sustain, DTU Food and DTU Construct, you will contribute to the next generation of methods and tools that support sustainability transformation in practice. You will work on the absolute environmental sustainability assessment of food provision and food production systems and develop methodological elements that are missing.

Working with food technology researchers from DTU on a selection of cases, you will develop the absolute sustainability targets and identify improvement options that can inform food system engineering of a route towards a food production that meets the nutritional needs and operates within the planetary boundaries that respect the carrying capacity of the planet1 …