PhD - Cultivated Meat – sustainable media and upscaling

Applicants are invited for a PhD fellowship/scholarship at Graduate School of Technical Sciences, Aarhus University, Denmark, within the Food Science programme. The position is available from 01 November 2024 or later. You can submit your application via the link under 'how to apply'.

Title:
Cultivated Meat – sustainable media and upscaling

Research area and project description:
Cultivated meat is a future way to produce the same nutrients as traditional meat, with expected reduced impact on the environment. However, for cultivated meat to enter the market, an affordable and scalable product is a prerequisite for success, as well as a quality that resembles conventional meat or similar functionality.

To address this challenge Department of Food Science has a portfolio of research projects with synergies where this position is part of a larger investment in cellular food at Aarhus University, lead from our group at Department of Food Science.
This Phd project will exploit the option of using sidestreams from ongoing food production as a nutrient resource in the media for cultured cells and further evaluate the muscle satellite cell pool and upscaling conditions (e.g. basic process parameters for bioreactor settings) for sustainable and optimal upscaling.

Project description: For technical reasons, you must upload a project description. Please simply copy the project description above and upload it as a PDF in the application.

Qualifications and specific competences:
Applicants to the PhD position must have a relevant Master’s degree in food science, or similar with documented experience in biochemical/molecular biology analysis and preferable cell culture technologies

Place of employment and place of work:
The place of employment is Aarhus University, and the place of work is Agro Food Park 48, 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark

Contacts:
Applicants seeking further information are invited to contact:

• Associate Professor Margrethe Therkildsen, [email protected] (main supervisor)
• Associate professor Martin Krøyer Rasmussen, [email protected] (co-supervisor)
• Professor Jette Feveile Young, [email protected] (co-supervisor)

How to apply:
Please follow this link to submit your application.

Application deadline is Thursday 01 August 2024 at 23:59 CEST.

Preferred starting date is 01 November 2024.

For information about application requirements and mandatory attachments, please see our application guide.

Please note:

• Only documents received prior to the application deadline will be evaluated. Thus, documents sent after deadline will not be taken into account.
• The programme committee may request further information or invite the applicant to attend an interview.
• Shortlisting will be used, which means that the evaluation committee only will evaluate the most relevant applications.

Aarhus University’s ambition is to be an attractive and inspiring workplace for all and to foster a culture in which each individual has opportunities to thrive, achieve and develop. We view equality and diversity as assets, and we welcome all applicants. All interested candidates are encouraged to apply, regardless of their personal background. Salary and terms of employment are in accordance with applicable collective agreement.