Chimie Analytique à Italie

Organisation/Company: Université Côte d'Azur

Department: Institut de Chime de Nice, CNRS UMR7272

Research Field: Chemistry » Analytical chemistry, Agricultural sciences » Phytotechny

Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1)

Positions: Research Support Positions

Country: France

Application Deadline: 10 May 2025 - 23:59 (Europe/Paris)

Type of Contract: Temporary

Job Status: Full-time

Hours Per Week: 37.5

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

General context

Since 2019, Futura Gaïa company grows plants with unique characteristics, thanks to innovative growing systems on living soils in a controlled environment. The company grows plants for food, pharmaceutical, neutraceutical, or cosmetics applications. Monitoring and controlling all growth parameters allow them to obtain optimized plants that comply with sustainability, stability, and innovation criteria sought in the cosmetics industry.

This project aims at developing several active ingredients starting from various innovative plant samples. These ingredients are expected to be applied to pharmaceutics, cosmetics, perfumery, food additives, etc. Because of the long experience in the elaboration and analysis of natural extracts, the MVBV group (Métabolome et Valorisation de la Biodiversité Végétale) part of the SPACE group in the Institute of Chemistry in Nice (ICN, UMR CNRS 7272) is now collaborating with Futura Gaïa to develop natural active ingredients from raw materials provided by Futura Gaïa.

Project

Preliminary results gathered by the two partners of this project have shown that Futura Gaïa’s technology leads to an improvement of certain plant characteristics. Research activities to be carried out within this project are meant to develop innovative active ingredients based on plants exhibiting a characteristic phytochemical footprint.

The project includes a thorough investigation on the optimisation of plant growth, eco-friendly extraction, as well as evaluation of biological activities for all resulting extracts. Results include the development of 1 to 4 active ingredients for cosmetics applications, as well as the creation of new and ecological methods for the production of extracts. Work will be divided into 5 tasks:

1. WP0: Project management
2. WP1: Optimisation of plant growth via elicitations
3. WP2: Biological activities, phytochemical composition of extracts and study the impact of elicitations
4. WP3: Optimisation of extraction using eco-friendly extraction steps
5. WP4: Evaluation of end products biological activities as well as safety and toxicity properties

E-mail: nicolas.papaiconomou@univ-cotedazur.fr

Research Field: Chemistry » Analytical chemistry

Education Level: Master Degree or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications

• Skills in analytical chemistry, experience in HPLC, GC/MS, GC-FID.
• Solid experience in analytical extraction techniques, SPE, SPME, DHS, etc.
• Solid experience in solid-liquid extraction of raw materials, in sustainable chemistry.
• Knowledge in chemistry of metabolites.
• Languages: FRENCH Level Excellent

Research Field: Chemistry » Analytical chemistry, Chemistry » Physical chemistry