Organisation / Company CIRTTA-UAB Department Departament de Ciència Animal i dels Aliments Laboratory Food Processing and Innovation (FPI) Is the Hosting related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No The Department of Animal and Food Science of University Autonomous of Barcelona (UAB) is seeking a highly motivated early-career postdoctoral researcher interested in applying for a Juan de la Cierva Fellowship to join our research line on fungal biotechnology, solid-state fermentation and sustainable biomaterials.
The successful candidate will join the research team developing UV-CELIUM (UV-Induced Mutations as Drivers of Fungal Adaptation to Complex Biomass), a research project focused on understanding how controlled ultraviolet stress can drive the adaptation of edible filamentous fungi to complex agro-industrial substrates.
The project combines fungal biology, molecular responses to environmental stress, UV technology, solid-state fermentation,



food science and biomaterial characterisation to develop a new framework for transforming underutilised agro-industrial biomass into functional mycelium-based materials.
Scientific background sought We are particularly interested in candidates with a PhD and research experience in one or several of the following areas:
Fungal molecular biology, genetics or genomics
Fungal physiology and stress responses
Transcriptomics and gene-expression analysis, particularly RNA-seq
Experimental evolution, adaptive responses or microbial adaptation
Fungal metabolism and secondary metabolism
Bioinformatics applied to fungal genomics or transcriptomics
Experience with Aspergillus, Rhizopus, Pleurotus or other filamentous fungi would be particularly valuable.
Additional experience in solid-state fermentation, food biotechnology, lignocellulosic biomass, microbial biotechnology or fungal biomaterials will be considered an advantage but is not essential.
We are especially interested in candidates bringing a strong molecular and

📌 Postdoctoral candidate for hosting Juan de la Cierva Fellowship (Madrid)
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