Job: Investigador Junior
Department: Nutrición y Salud
Location: Reus (Spain)
Contract: Internship
Working day: Full time
Sector: Pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical
Vacancies: 1
Discipline: InnovationEurecat is the second Research & Technology Organisation in Spain and one of the largest applied research and technology transfer organisation in Southern
Europe. It brings together the experience of more than 800 professionals who generate an annual turnover of 69 million euros and provides services to more than 2,000 companies. Eurecat integrates advanced digital capabilities and experience in biotechnology, industry and sustainability and collaborates with industry in R+D+I activities and projects, offering advanced scientific and technological services and specialized knowledge to respond effectively to the technological needs of very different business sectors, accelerating innovation, reducing both risks and spendings on scientific and technological infrastructures. The technology center participates in more than 200 large national and international consortium projects of high strategic R&I, has 230 patents and 10 spin-offs. Eurecat has eleven centers in Catalonia and presence in Madrid, Malaga and Chile.
Research and production of bioactive compounds using scalable, cost efficiency and low enrionmental technologies to be used in the food industry.
PHD Description
The Mixed R&D&i Platform in Food Science and Technology, configured by the Nutrition and Health Unit of Eurecat - Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya - and the Universitat de Lleida (UdL), facilitates the development of join research projects and technology transfer initiatives to the agri-food production sector.
In this way and according to share the strategic lines of R&D in food science and technology, the Platform is looking for a highly motivated researcher to work on the field of food technology.
The thesis will research into new food matrix enriched with nutritional high added value based on the characterization of their physical, chemical and technological properties. The candidate will also learn about meethods and technologies enabling to increase the extration and process kinetics while preserving the bioactive compounds by using scalable and assisted low environmental impact technologies in the food industry and studying the impact of structural modification of bioactive compounds and their feasibility to be used as ingredients in food formulation.
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Location: Reus (Tarragona)
What Eurecat can offer you
Eurecat, Technology Centre brings together the expertise of 650 professionals and serving more than a thousand companies. Applied R + D, technological services, highly technoscientific training, technology consulting and professional events are some of the services that Eurecat offers for companies of all sectors.
The Mixed Platform in Food Science and Technology is specialized in the design, assessment and validate the rheological and organoleptical propieties of reformulated food. Related with the Vicente Lopez, UTNS R&D, the goal of reformulating food is focused on the improvement of nutrition profile of different food matrices using treding both in scientific approaches and technologies on food science and technology.
