PhD position open in EU project SERENADE on sensors for food quality

Food production and distribution is a huge sector, with significant environmental impact. The EU is prioritising green and circular solutions across the entire food supply chain. Funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SERENADE project focuses on the end of the food supply chain, developing solutions that target food waste at households, supermarkets and retailers.

Project work spans three pillars, namely food, sensors and materials technologies. It will produce two innovations: a smart, sustainable, sensor-based food container to monitor food freshness; and a handheld food spoilage AI-based analyser to assess freshness of unpackaged products.

The position of DC4 within the project will work on the latter task: a handheld sensor system for assessing food spoilage comprised of a miniaturized GC with a MOS sensor as highly sensitive detector. Applications are requested until May 31, the official recruitment offer can be found here: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/342508

The successful PhD candidate is expected to start as early as possible and will be co-supervised by USAAR-LMT and JLM Innovation GmbH, Tübingen, as industrial partner.

For any questions concerning the position, please contact Prof. Andreas Schütze or Dr. Christian Bur.