Position Snapshot
Location: Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent
Position Level: H4
The recruitment will be entirely driven by the fit between the individual competencies and the requirements of the job. Each candidate whose skills match best the requirements of the role will be considered
What we offer at Nestlé
Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits
Position Summary
Nestlé Research is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, employs approximately 1000 people and is comprised of five Nestlé Institutes: Material Sciences, Health Sciences, Food Safety & Analytical Sciences, Packaging Sciences, and Agricultural Sciences. Please have a tour of our facilities using this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website. Please follow us on Nestlé R&D on LinkedIn.
As an Associate Specialist in Ruminant Microbiome, you will be part of Animal Sciences group, where you will study greenhouse gas emissions originating from ruminal microbiota and application in dietary mitigation of enteric methane production.
Learn more about the Nestlé Institute of Agricultural Sciences here: Nestlé Institute of Agricultural Sciences
We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.
A Day in the Life of an Associate Specialist in Ruminant Microbiome
- Autonomously manage & coordinate research activities
- Develop and implement innovative and competitive concepts based on ruminant metabolic activity
- Generate, analyze, and interpret microbiome multi-omics data to investigate the ruminant microbial ecosystem
- Strengthen the internal and external scientific network in line with assigned projects
- Translate scientific knowledge to product innovation and application
- Contribute to peer reviewed scientific publications, scientific communications, and patents
- Actively monitor relevant external partners (academic and industry) and support in selection and set up of strategic relationships when relevant
What will make you successful
- Master’s degree in animal sciences
- strong scientific expertise in microbiome
- Minimum 3 years of experience in rumen microbiome and research to reduce methanogenesis
- Experience in analyzing and integrating microbiome-based data
- Working experience in relevant in-vitro and ex-vivo models is a plus
- Creative, dynamic and willing to learn
- Result focus, quick and effective
- Excellent communication skills, team spirit, and open mindset
- Fluent in English both written and spoken, any other language a plus
At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.
If someone in your team, or your network would be interested in this position, please contact Elodie Soussan: [email protected]
Position Snapshot
Location: Lausanne, Switzerland
Company: Nestlé Research
Act. Rate: Full-Time Act. Rate 100%
Type of contract: Permanent contract
Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits
The recruitment will be entirely driven by the fit between the individual competencies and the requirements of the job. Each candidate whose skills match best the requirements of the role will be considered.
Position Summary
Nestlé Research is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, employs approximately 1000 people and is comprised of five Nestlé Institutes: Material Sciences; Health Sciences, Food Safety & Analytical Sciences, Packaging Sciences and Agriculture Sciences. Please have a tour of our facilities using this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website.
As an Associate Specialist in Animal Physiology, you will execute Animal physiology research and innovation – in line with the overall Agricultural Science strategy.
Learn more about the Nestlé Institute of Agricultural Sciences here: Nestlé Institute of Agricultural Sciences
We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.
A Day in the Life of an Associate Specialist Animal Physiology
- Autonomously manage & coordinate research activities
- Develop and implement innovative and competitive research projects based on ruminant animal physiology and reduction of enteric methane
- Generate, analyze, and interpret information about ruminant physiology in dairy – livestock production systems, including the fundamentals of the subject, such as the biological, chemical, physical and environmental aspects of dairy cattle physiology
- Strengthen the internal and external scientific network in line with assigned projects
- Translate scientific knowledge to technology innovation and application
- Contribute to peer reviewed scientific publications, scientific communications, and patents
- Actively monitor relevant external partners (academic and industry) and support in selection and set up of strategic relationships when relevant
What will make you successful
- Master’s degree in animal sciences
- strong scientific expertise in ruminant physiology
- Minimum 3 years of experience in ruminant physiology and research to reduce enteric methane produced by cattle
- Working experience in relevant in-vitro and ex-vivo models is a plus
- Creative, dynamic and willing to learn
- Result focus, quick and effective
- Excellent communication skills, team spirit, and open mindset
- Fluent in English both written and spoken, any other language a plus
At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
Be a force for good. Join Nestlé and visit us on www.nestle.com.
If someone in your team, or your network would be interested in this position, please contact Elodie Soussan: [email protected]
Application Deadline: 14 December 2023
Department of Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Aarhus University, invites highly qualified applicants for a 3-year assistant professor position in grazing systems for dairy cows with a special focus on nutrition and reduction of environmental and climate impact, starting on 1 April 2024 or soon thereafter.
The position
We seek a candidate with a strong background in animal science, veterinary science, or biology. The candidate should have focus and interest in ruminant nutrition and the effects of ruminant production on environment and climate.
Experience in conducting, analysing, and publishing animal experiments with cattle is a prerequisite, and the candidate must have a good track-record within grazing systems and feeding strategies and technologies to reduce enteric methane from cattle. This knowledge is expected to be transferred to use within other herbivores as well.
The candidate must have good collaborative and English communication skills.
The candidate will be part of an active and dynamic research group, internationally recognized for its research within ruminant nutrition and in the green transition of agriculture.
To support the development of the research area, the candidate is expected to contribute to attract external funding within this area of research and lead projects.
The candidate will participate in knowledge exchange with public authority service and industry as well as teaching and supervision at bachelor, master, and PhD levels in animal and veterinary sciences.
The November 2023 Issue of Who’s Counting, the Inventories and Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) Network Newsletter is now available to view HERE.
Who’s Counting summarises scientific progress, opportunities, resources and events related to national agriculture inventory development, national agriculture climate targets, and international inventory capability-building activities.
We encourage you to directly submit content for the next Issue of Who’s Counting?
A recording of the Peatland Management Network webinar from 16 November 2023 titled “Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balance of Peatland: Lessons from the Tropics and the North” is now available to view HERE.
Speakers:
Net greenhouse gas balance from several land covers of Indonesian peatland
Presented by: Prof. Dr. Fahmuddin Agus, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN), Indonesia
Peatland greenhouse gas observation needs and an example from Norway
Presented by: Dr. Junbin Zhao, NIBIO, Norway
It is with great sadness that we share with you the news of Dr Yasukazu Hosen’s passing earlier this month. Yas Hosen has been a valued member of the GRA Community over the years, and his leadership and knowledge will be greatly missed by the Paddy Rice Research Group and by the wider GRA community.
Dr Yasukazu Hosen served as co-Chair of the Paddy Rice Research Group of the Global Research Alliance (GRA) from 2018 to 2023. He completed his doctoral course at the University of Tokyo majoring in soil science, and joined the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) in 1996. He worked as a researcher in the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS) from 1996 to 2016 and in the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO) from 2016 to 2023 in the field of agricultural environment sciences, especially on greenhouse gas mitigation from agricultural soils in Asian countries such as China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. He was based in the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) from 2004 to 2010 as an International Recruited Staff member and served as Deputy Director of the International Research Division of the Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Council, MAFF from 2013 to 2015. He greatly contributed to the field of agricultural environmental sciences especially in international research.
We know that you will join us in sending condolences to Dr Hosen’s family and colleagues at this time.
The 2023 meeting of the Livestock Research Group was held in-person for the first time since COVID-19 in Lyon, France on 1 September 2023.
The meeting was attended by 39 participants representing 18 countries and four partner organisations. The full report and presentation slides are now available for download HERE.
Congratulations to Tony van der Weerden and DATAMAN colleagues for the JEQ 2023 Outstanding Paper!
- DATAMAN: A global database of nitrous oxide and ammonia emission factors for excreta deposited by livestock and land-applied manure https://doi.org/10.1002/jeq2.20186
DATAMAN is a global project, led by New Zealand, which was set up as part of the GRA Livestock Research Group’s Manure Management Network. The international team of researchers aims to develop a global database on greenhouse gas (N2O, CH4) and NH3 emissions from the manure management chain (housing, storage, and field) to identify key variables influencing emissions and ultimately to refine emission factors (EFs) for future national GHG inventories and NH3 emission reporting.
Learn more about DATAMAN here: https://www.dataman.co.nz/
Closing date: 27 October 2023
Location: Canterbury, New Zealand
Project title: Green boundaries: Unleashing nature’s power to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in dairy farming
Are you passionate about sustainable agriculture, climate action, and soil science? Join us in an exciting PhD project focused on harnessing the potential of native vegetation along dairy paddock boundaries to combat greenhouse gas emissions, while simultaneously boosting biodiversity.
New Zealand’s dairy industry is both vital to the economy and a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions. Using the Lincoln University Demonstration Dairy Farm, we will investigate how “green” boundaries influence soil carbon stocks, nitrogen dynamics, soil microbial activity, and uncover the mechanisms behind these changes.
Specifically, the student will:
(1) Quantify how soil carbon stocks and microclimate factors change along native vegetation boundaries and into pasture;
(2) Test how use of these boundary areas as stock camp shelters may influence N2O emissions;
(3) Investigate the microbial mechanisms facilitating changes in carbon and nitrogen dynamics with distance from the native vegetation; and
(4) Calculate the total net reduction in GHG emissions within the pasture with the added native vegetation
Students interested in pursuing this project should have a prior degree in soil science, ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, agricultural sciences, or a related field. Ideal candidates should be comfortable conducting fieldwork, running laboratory experiments, and have some background in statistics, GIS, and/or computer modelling.
LEARN MORE & APPLY HERE.
A recording of the Circular Food Systems Network webinar from 15th September 2023 titled “Indicators to measure circularity: developments & considerations” is now available to view here. The white paper introduced in the webinar, “Circular Food Systems around the world: exploring concepts, ideas and opportunities” can be downloaded here.
This webinar brought together experts to focus on the development and considerations of indicators to measure circularity. The following questions were discussed: can we measure circularity? How would we do that? What are the limitations of using indicators? Are there alternatives to measure circularity of a food system? How important is it to measure circularity – is it necessary or does it defeat the purpose of circularity in food systems?
The webinar included the following:
- Short introduction and presentation of the whitepaper ‘Circular Food Systems around the world’ – by Flavia Casu
- Three presentations of projects funded by the CFS Network
- Circularity in Integrated Systems: Resource Recovery for Feed, Fuel and (Organic) Fertilizer Self-sufficiency in Ethiopia – by Carlos Brazao Alho
- Benchmarking nutrient circularity at different scales: Using a food systems perspective – by Marloes van Loon
- A holistic framework for assessment of circular food systems – by Vicki Burggraaf
- Panel discussion with the project leaders to discuss (the need for) indicators (and possible alternatives) to measure circularity.
Closing Date: 27 September 2023
Location: NZAGRC, New Zealand
The New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre (NZAGRC) is expanding due to increased investment and is seeking a Senior / Principal Science Advisor.
Working across international and domestic spheres, the role will be responsible for the elaboration of complex scientific research and development programmes focussed on reducing agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. The International role will support the NZAGRC Science Team to deliver on the vision and mission of New Zealand’s investment in the Global Research Alliance on Greenhouse Gases (GRA).
The NZAGRC is looking for someone with excellent scientific, communication and relationship skills and a strong familiarity with the workings of government departments and international science and policy fora.
(Note: Closing date extended from 20 September 2023)
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