PhD in Horticultural Science: Use and Risk Assessment of Digestate Residues for Sustainable Horticultural Production Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden

PhD position in Horticultural Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) , Department of Biosystems and Technology, in Alnarp, Sweden . The doctoral project is titled “Valorization and Risk Assessment of Anaerobic Digestates for Sustainable Horticultural Production” . It focuses on circular food and energy systems, with particular attention to the use of anaerobic digestate from biogas production as a resource for horticulture. The project will study the occurrence and fate...

This PhD project at the Department of Biosystems and Technology , Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, focuses on the valorization and risk assessment of anaerobic digestates for sustainable horticultural production. The research addresses how digestate from biogas production can be transformed into safe, useful inputs for horticulture, with particular attention to the liquid fraction for nutrient solutions and the fibre fraction as a growing-media component and potential partial replace...

PhD opportunity in Horticultural Science at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Alnarp, Sweden . The project focuses on pyralid herbicides in digestate and their implications for growing media , with strong links to agricultural sciences , plant cultivation , biogas , and environmental science . The doctoral research examines the occurrence, fate, distribution, degradation, and immobilisation of herbicide residues in selected feedstocks and digestate fractions, especially th...

Trees For Me is seeking a PhD student in forest genetics to join a research environment based at Skogforsk, in collaboration with the Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). The doctoral project will investigate how flowering and seed production can improve silver birch breeding . By examining these reproductive processes, the research aims to support the development of more productive and resilient birch forests and contribute to sustain...

PhD opportunity for UK students at the University of York in a project on reducing chemical pollution through future farming systems . The advertised project is titled “Understanding consumers’ responses to underutilized crops and implications for the environment” and is associated with Eleanor Jew . This is a research-focused doctoral opening spanning environmental science , agriculture , and chemistry , with additional relevance to crop systems, consumer responses, and sustainability in farmin...