PhD Opportunities in Food Science in Ireland

CSIRO Agriculture and Food is offering two PhD scholarships focused on grazing livestock research at the F.D. McMaster Laboratory site in Armidale, New South Wales. The opportunities support doctoral research connected with pastoral livestock systems and provide access to CSIRO scientists, mentors, facilities and research expertise. Available projects address important challenges in sustainable and productive livestock production, including: Evaluating tree plantings for productive and sustainab...

INRAE Doctoral Contracts are salaried PhD positions hosted by France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and the environment. The institute has around 272 research units across France, giving doctoral researchers access to a wide national research network. These contracts support doctoral research linked to INRAE’s scientific areas, especially agriculture, food, ecology and the environment. The position is structured as a work contract rather than a stipend, so doctoral researche...

Texas A&M University is seeking a PhD student for an enology and sensory science project beginning in January 2027. The research will address wine quality issues relevant to the Texas wine industry through applied work combining wine chemistry, sensory evaluation, and fermentation science. Under the guidance of Dr. Andreea Botezatu in the Department of Horticultural Sciences, the student will investigate factors affecting wine quality and contribute to research with direct relevance to regional ...

The Sustain Vitis MSCA Industrial Doctoral Network offers 15 fully funded PhD positions focused on the sustainability and innovation of viticulture and enology across Europe. Fondazione Edmund Mach coordinates the network, with participating institutions including Hochschule Geisenheim University, the University of Bordeaux, and Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, alongside additional research and industrial partners. The doctoral projects span interdisciplinary research in grapevine bi...

The National University of Singapore’s Lab of Food Materials and Nanotechnology, led by Assistant Professor Jiangtao Zhou, is recruiting fully funded PhD students for the August 2027 intake. The lab develops sustainable biomaterials from food-derived proteins for applications in food, nutrition, and human health. The research combines food materials, nanotechnology, biomaterials, and protein-based material design to address challenges at the intersection of food science and health. PhD researche...

Teesside University is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in a research group working at the intersection of computational systems biology and deep learning . The project is aimed at a researcher interested in time-resolved multimodal artificial intelligence for applications involving imaging, omics, biotechnology and food. The work brings together AI and machine learning approaches with biological and data-rich research questions, with an emphasis on integrating multiple types of informati...

Cornell University is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in bioengineering and materials science and engineering through Dr. Ke Wang’s group in the Department of Food Science at Cornell AgriTech. The thesis project focuses on developing biomaterials through precision fermentation , connecting bioengineering and materials science with emerging biotechnology and the circular bioeconomy. The work is suited to researchers interested in designing and characterizing new biomaterials using ferment...

This competition opens one entry-level PhD researcher position at the Polytechnic University of Bragança , with work based at the Mountain Research Centre . The appointee will contribute to scientific research in Food Technology or related areas within the scope of the REGENSMART + project. The position is framed as a research-oriented appointment within the university’s scientific environment, combining research activity with the wider applied and innovation-focused mission of the project. The ...

PhD position in Mechanoreceptors & Sensory Biophysics at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich. The project investigates novel protein agonists of the human sweet taste receptor, combining AFM-based single-molecule force spectroscopy with computational and AI-guided protein design. The research explores how membrane proteins contribute to taste perception and how new molecular tools can be developed to modulate receptor activity. The doctoral resear...