Research & Development
Postdoc in Microbial Food Engineering - BRIGHT
Summary
The postdoc will develop sustainable meat alternatives from edible yeasts using metabolic engineering, analytics, machine learning and fermentation. The role includes conducting experiments, publishing and presenting results, teaching, and supervising students.
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Opportunity summary
Do you want to design the microbial foods of the future? You will use metabolic engineering, advanced analytics, machine learning, and fermentation technologies to create novel, well-tasting sustainable meat alternatives based on edible yeasts. The project is a part of the Microbial Foods mission at BRIGHT.
Responsibilities and qualifications You will design and carry out experiments, analyze the data, publish the results, and present them at international conferences. You will also contribute to teaching MSc/BSc courses and supervising students. You will work in close collaboration with other members of the Yeast Metabolic Engineering group and many colleagues at the BRIGHT Institute.
As a formal qualification, you must hold a PhD in biotechnology, microbiology or similar. - You are scientifically curious, creative, and result-oriented. - In your experimental work, you are efficient and generate publication-quality data. - You have hands-on experience with metabolic engineering of yeasts.
- You are a team player and thrive in a multicultural environment. - You have an excellent command of English and strong scientific writing skills.
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DTU is a leading technical university globally recognized for the excellence of its research, education, innovation and scientific advice. We offer a rewarding and challenging job in an international environment1 …
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