Microbial foods for sustainable nutrition

KU Leuven
📍 Leuven, Flanders, Belgium 💼 Full-time 🕒 Posted July 07, 2026

Job Description

Your work will focus on:•Optimizing microbial bioproduction processes to steer biomass composition, functionality, and the production of health-relevant compounds.•Developing and evaluating downstream processing strategies to obtain stable, safe, and food-relevant microbial ingredients.•Use of processing and formulation to impact nutritional functionality•Evaluation of in vitro macronutrient digestion kinetics•Study of interaction effects in complex food systems•Statistical analysisYour responsibilities will be:•Your primary responsibility will be to carry out laboratory experiments and perform comprehensive analyses using state-of-the-art techniques. You will play an active role in the development, execution, and interpretation of experiments.•Collaboration is integral. You will be an active member of the Food Microbiology research group, collaborating with the Laboratory of Food Technology and supporting fellow researchers and ongoing projects.•You are expected to communicate your re...

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Job Details

  • Location Leuven, Flanders
  • Job Type Full-time
  • Category Life Scientists
  • Posted Date July 07, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 16, 2026