Research Manager Food Fermentation – Puratos

Key tasks and responsibilities

• Understand how microbes influence food characteristics
• Identify and understand functionalities of worldwide traditional food fermentations with main focus on Africa
• Create functionalities by using fermentation technology on local African crops
• Apply and integrate a variety of experimental, computational and statistical methods to study the microbiome populations
• Contribute original ideas to the prosecution of laboratory and/or field experimental procedures in collaboration with local universities
• Build a network with local stakeholders, identify external competences and partners to collaborate or access as a service
• Take the lead on setting up research consortia in line with the strategy, to implement the research program and follow up on it
• Translate concepts of fermented food biotopes from other regions as a part of the innovation pipeline
• Collaborate in R&D projects across a diverse set of scientific disciplines including fermentation, analytics and computational biology to provide insights and expertise required for successful project progression

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