We are looking for a PhD Candidate to join the Sustainability in Biosystems Program team, based in Torre Marimon (Caldes de Montbui, Barcelona). We offer the opportunity to be part of an organization with a dynamic, collaborative work environment focused on professional development.

This position will focus on conducting research and innovation activities related to the challenges of assessing novel post-harvest technologies, products and strategies, deploying tools such as Prospective LCA, as well as eco-efficiency and circularity indicators.
The successful candidate will be working on an exciting and stimulating international project on post-harvest technologies applied to fruits and vegetables. Production of fresh fruit and vegetables is a large contributor to EU socio-economics with the production value of fresh fruit and vegetables increasing to a value of close to 71 billion Euro in 2024. However, EU farmers face major business challenges from volatile and low prices,



and increasingly unpredictable harvests; while environmental and climate regulations require substantial investments and create significant risks. The HYPOSAVE project will improve farmers’ income in the horticultural value chain by transforming on-farm postharvest operations. It will develop and disseminate modular, state-of-the-art technologies for packaging, storage, and processing of economically important fruit and vegetable crops.

The objectives of the successful candidate will focus on overcoming the challenges of Prospective LCA in agri-food contexts, and to integrate economic and environmental analyses into meaningful eco-efficiency indicators.

Head of the Program: Dr August Bonmatí
Program’s key researcher/s for this position: Dr Angel Avadí

Tasks and Responsibilities:
Define the prospective LCA framework in collaboration with relevant project partners
Develop the inventory data collection templates for technology-developing partners and oversee collection of primary LCI data from p

📌 PhD Candidate in “prospective LCA of post-harvest technological pathways” for the Sustainability in Biosystems Program (Caldes de Montbui)
🏢 Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries (IRTA)
📍 Caldes de Montbui