PhD student SNF-BRIDGE project ALDEX (100 %)
Publication date:
29 May 2025Workload:
100%- Place of work:Zollikofen
Job summary
Join us as a doctoral candidate in the ALDEX project, a collaboration of ETH Zurich, BFH, and ZHAW. Enjoy a flexible work environment fostering creativity and independence.
Tasks
- Develop a hybrid product base using microalgae and milk protein.
- Explore interactions at interfaces and phase compatibilization strategies.
- Support teaching through lectures and practical courses occasionally.
Skills
- Must have an excellent master's degree in food science or related fields.
- Demonstrate strong analytical thinking and creativity.
- Possess very good English skills, ideally with some German.
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What you'll be doing here
- You are a doctoral candidate in the ALDEX project, a joint SNF-BRIDGE project of ETH Zurich, Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH) and Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur (ZHAW). The dissertation is closely supervised by BFH (team Prof. Dr. Christoph Denkel) and ETH Zurich (team Prof. Dr. Alexander Mathys).
- The aim of this dissertation is to develop a hybrid product base consisting of microalgae and milk protein for a new range of food structures and functionalities.
- Particular emphasis will be placed on the interaction between phases, interactions at interfaces and strategies for the compatibilization and structuring of two- or more phases.
- Occasionally, you will provide support in teaching in the form of lectures or practical courses.
What you'll bring with you
- Excellent master's degree in food science, materials science, food process engineering or a related discipline
- Quickly adaptable to new areas of knowledge, combined with fast comprehension and a steep learning curve
- Passion, high level of self-motivation and a strong ability to think abstractly and creatively in order to tackle challenging research questions and profitably enter unknown areas of knowledge
- High level of analytical thinking, creativity and ability to think abstractly in order to develop new solutions
- Open-mindedness and an independent, structured and reliable way of working
- Very good English skills, ideally complemented by good German skills
To start with, here are some of our strong points
- Great freedom in work organisation with lots of leeway for your ideas, your creativity and decisiveness.
- Curiosity is what we want, oodles of it. Plus, lots of independence and autonomy.
- Focus on research that is geared towards practical orientation and the education of committed people rather than mere profit maximisation.
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Franziska Uhlmann-Röösli
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