The ETH Sustainable Food Processing Group focuses on advancing food processing technologies and their role in sustainable food systems, using innovative approaches to tackle fundamental challenges such as the protein transition and food security. The group uses innovative sustainability assessment and emerging food system approaches as key tools to guide processing innovations toward holistic and impactful solutions.
The overall vision is to identify and develop processing strategies that improve nutritional quality and environmental performance as assessed by nutritional life cycle assessment (nLCA) while creating appealing hybrid protein-rich products.
Tasks
- Join a collaborative research project exploring how food processing affects both nutritional quality and environmental impact.
- Execute processing trials using pilot plant technologies, including multi-scale extruders, high-pressure and thermal treatment systems, and pulsed electric field (PEF) equipment.
- Coordinate collaborations within the team and with external partners to ensure nutritional, health, and sustainability aspects are systematically integrated into the research.
- Employ advanced analytical methods (e.g., nutritional profile, bioaccessibility, dynamic mechanical analysis, imaging, spectroscopy) to assess product quality.
Requirements
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in Food Technology, Food Engineering, Food Science, Bioengineering, Biotechnology or a closely related field.
- Excellent academic qualifications.
- Advanced knowledge in food processing.
- Strong communication and writing skills and high self-motivation.
- Openness to interdisciplinary work and a flexible mindset.
- Enthusiasm for engineering, food technology, and sustainability-related questions.
- Expertise in structurization via extrusion, disintegration, or preservation technologies, as well as project management and nutrition, will be considered a plus.
Benefits
- A multicultural group with a diverse and interdisciplinary team composition.
- Exciting and varied projects in an innovative environment.
- Personal development opportunities through training, teaching, and further education.
- Perspectives for career development.
- A dynamic, collegial working environment with flat hierarchies.
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Das Team
The group is multicultural, with a diverse and interdisciplinary team composition, and offers a dynamic, collegial working environment with flat hierarchies.