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Doctoral Programme in Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences (SAAF) The Doctoral Programme in Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, offered by the Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, is a comprehensive research-oriented programme that brings together expertise and resear…
Do you want to improve animal welfare and help make livestock farming more sustainable? Are you excited about connecting cutting-edge AI technology with farming to unlock the economic value of this technology? Do you want to make real-world impact with your research? Then this PhD position at…
PhD in Optimization of Sustainable Agri-Food Supply Chains under Climate Risk Wageningen University and Research invites applications for a fully-funded PhD position focusing on the optimization of sustainable agri-food supply chains in the face of growing climate risks. This research project…
About the project Wageningen University and Research invites applications for a fully funded PhD position focused on the economic value of real‑time, video‑based disease detection in pigs. As precision livestock farming advances, automated monitoring systems that use artificial intelligence t…
Research Context This PhD position, hosted at Queen’s University Belfast, focuses on developing novel feeding strategies designed to reduce ammonia emissions from ruminant livestock while simultaneously improving animal productivity. Ammonia emissions from agriculture, particularly from rumin…
🎓Data Science, Environmental Sciences, Bioinformatics, Scientific Computing, Water And Climate
About the role We invite applications for a fully funded PhD scholarship (3-year employment) at DTU Compute, part of the research project “IcyAlert – Intelligent Climate Early Warning Alert for Arctic Ice-Free Summers”. The project is funded under the NNF Grand AI Challenge programme and aims…
PhD Scholarship in Studying the Microbial Ecology of Coffee Flavour – BRIGHT About the Position The Fermentation Cultures group at DTU BRIGHT invites applications for a 3-year PhD scholarship focused on the microbial ecology of traditional coffee fermentation. This project investigates how mi…
About the role The Fermentation Cultures group at DTU BRIGHT invites applications for a PhD scholarship in the development of local coffee alternatives. This project aims to create a caffeine‑free coffee alternative from local waste streams, using knowledge from traditional coffee fermentatio…
About the Role Are you fascinated by traditional food cultures and the microbial life behind fermented foods? Do you want to combine microbiology, ecology, and ethnography to create more sustainable and democratic food systems? Join the Fermentation Cultures group at DTU BRIGHT as a PhD candi…
About the Role Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship in fungal evolution and innovation within the Fermentation Cultures group at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU). This interdisciplinary project combines microbiology, mycology, ecology, evolution, and genomics to investigate…
🎓Plant Sciences, Environmental Sciences, Bioinformatics, Scientific Computing, Sustainable Development
About the Role This PhD position offers an opportunity to develop advanced modelling tools for decarbonising one of the world's most CO₂-intensive industries: cement production. You will work at the interface of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), high-temperature process engineering, carbon …
Wageningen University & Research invites applications for a PhD position at the intersection of climate change, food systems, and advanced optimization. The successful candidate will develop cutting-edge operations research models to redesign agricultural supply chains that remain resilient u…
Open PhD positions in agricultural and life sciences
Browse current open PhD positions for doctoral candidates in agriculture, food systems, plant and animal sciences, forestry, environmental research, and related fields. Each listing is curated to help you quickly find funded and open doctoral vacancies with clear deadlines and application details.
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