PhD in Microbial Food Nutrition & Strain Engineering

DTU; Denmark; Remote; DKK 312,000 - 357,000; Full time

Job summary

DTU invites applications for a PhD Student in Molecular Nutrition and Strain Engineering within the BRIGHT Mission 2 program. You will join a cross-disciplinary team of computational biologists, microbial engineers and food scientists to engineer fungal and yeast chassis for improved nutritional features.

The PhD scholarship is enrolled at DTU with start date 01-01-2027 or mutual agreement. The three-year, full-time appointment emphasizes data-driven strain design, multi-omics, safety evaluation

Qualifications

• Two-year Master’s degree in molecular biology, biotechnology, microbiology, nutrition science, or a closely related area.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Fluent in English with literacy in IT systems and AI.

Responsibilities

• Identify rate-limiting nutritional features of the two chassis and design strain engineering strategies.
• Engineer Aspergillus and/or Yarrowia strains to improve nutritional features without compromising taste, texture, or process performance.
• Coordinate with protein chemistry and in vitro digestion workstreams to iterate on strain designs.
• Contribute to training of predictive models linking strain and process design to nutritional outcomes.

Skills

Organizational skills

Project management

Fluent English

IT literacy & AI

Education

Master’s degree in molecular biology/biotechnology/microbiology/nutrition science

Job description

DTU invites applications for a PhD Student in Molecular Nutrition and Strain Engineering within the BRIGHT Mission 2 program. You will join a cross-disciplinary team of computational biologists, microbial engineers and food scientists to engineer fungal and yeast chassis for improved nutritional features.

The PhD scholarship is enrolled at DTU with start date 01-01-2027 or mutual agreement. The three-year, full-time appointment emphasizes data-driven strain design, multi-omics, safety evaluation