Organisation/Company Fundació Centre de Recerca en Agrotecnologia-AGROTECNIO Research Field Biological sciences » Biological engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Recognised Researcher (R2) Positions PhD Positions Application Deadline 15 Sep 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 37,5 Offer Starting Date 1 Oct 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe (other) Reference Number 101307230 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Crop productivity and nutritional quality are constrained by intensifying multifactorial abiotic and biotic stresses, which conventional breeding and single-trait biotechnological approaches can no longer address effectively. Climate change, soil degradation, resource depletion, and geopolitical instability underscore the urgent need to enhance crop productivity and reinforce the EU’s independence and resilience in food, feed and fiber production.



BIOCRAFT will tackle these intertwined challenges by pioneering disruptive biotechnological solutions that deliver new climate-resilient, high-yielding and nutritionally enhanced crops, while enabling the innovative plant-based production of non-native highvalue biomolecules (e.g., growth factors for biomedical and food applications). We are seeking a highly motivated PhD student to generate multiplex genome edited (GE) rice plants tolerant to biotic and abiotic stresses.

The successful candidate will primarily contribute to research on plant–fungal interactions, with a focus on assessing the tolerance of genome-edited rice lines to Magnaporthe oryzae, the causal agent of rice blast disease. Prior hands-on experience with rice and/or Magnaporthe oryzae is advantageous but not essential. The doctoral candidate will be mentored by a multidisciplinary team of researchers from Agrotecnio and partner institutions with expertis

📌 PhD Biocraft Project (España)
🏢 Fundacio Centre de Recerca en Agrotecnologia-AGROTECNIO
📍 España