Postdoc in Sustainable Downstream Processing for Precision Fermentation Wageningen University & Research in Netherlands

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a PhD position in Understanding and Decreasing N2O emissions in Deammonification within the UNITED project (Understanding and Narrowing Impacts of Targeted N2O Emissions in Deammonification). The project focuses on wastewater treatment , nitrous oxide emissions , deammonification reactors , and strategies to improve sustainability and reduce the CO2 footprint of wastewater treatment plants. The successful candidate will work with Environmental Tech...

Wetsus, the European centre of excellence for sustainable water technology, is offering a funded PhD project on flagship sustainable by design circular composite bioplastics . The position is part of the newly funded EU project SOWISE+ and sits within the Biopolymers from Water research theme. The project focuses on developing methods to produce, recover, and upgrade polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) into high-value biobased composite materials for circular economy applications. The research addresse...

2 PhD positions are available in Systems Microbiology and Environmental Biotechnology within Michele Laureni’s NWO VIDI project DecodeN : “Decoding Metabolic Crossroads in Microbial Nitrogen Cycling for Climate Resilience.” The project is hosted at Delft University of Technology and focuses on nitrogen cycling , microbiomes , bioreactors , and computational biology . The research aims to understand how co-occurring nitrogenous substrates shape the genomic and functional signatures of nitrogen-cy...

Wetsus is advertising PhD project 2026.19, “Beyond the boundaries of phosphate desorption: Uncovering the surface chemistry behind phosphate-iron (hydr)oxide sorption.” The project is centered on surface chemistry , chemical engineering , materials science , and environmental science , with a strong focus on phosphate removal and regeneration in wastewater treatment. The research investigates how phosphate is adsorbed and desorbed on iron (hydr)oxide-based adsorbents, why regenerant solutions ar...

PhD position in epialleles , heritable variation , and plant biology at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in the Netherlands . The project is titled “Exposing the contribution of epialleles to heritable variation in plants” and is hosted in an excellent training environment with support for experimental work and analysis. The position is offered at 0.8–1.0 fte, initially for 1 year, with the possibility of extension up to 4 years total based on satisfactory performance. S...