PhD in Bioprocess And Metabolic Engineering

A consortium at seven host institutes (Wageningen Universiteit, Universidade do Minho, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Austrian Centre for Industrial Biotechnology, Imperial College London, Università degli Studi di Milano Bicocca and Chalmers Tekniska Högskola) together with fifteen associated partners, ranging from start-up to large biotechnology companies and renowned research institutes aims to understand how yeast cells die under industrial process conditions and use this knowledge to improve biomanufacturing./nThe UPSYDE consortium offers 13 PhD projects among all involved institutions, each of the individual doctoral projects will focus on a different aspect, and each PhD will receive a strongly interdisciplinary training alongside performing exciting research. This includes secondments at at least two other partners in the consortium./nDTU will host 2 of the PhD positions (referred as DC8 and DC9 in the UPSYDE consortium)./nThe scholarship for the PhD degree is subject to academic approval, and the candidate will be enrolled in one of the general degree programmes at DTU./nThe period of employment is 3 years./nThe department is located at DTU Lyngby Campus.