[DMANET] Vacancy

PhD position Tilburg University, Zero Hunger Lab

Are you interested in using operations and supply chain analytics to identify food choices with low food loss and waste characteristics, high nutritional scores, and an overall lower environmental impact? And to be part of Tilburg University's Zero Hunger Lab and a large new European initiative to reduce food loss and waste and work towards a more sustainable food system? Did you graduate in a field like operations research, data science or industrial engineering? Then this PhD position focused on sustainable menu planning might be something for you.

This PhD project is part of a large European research project focused on the reduction of food loss and waste. Together with partners from across Europe, the goal is to identify, study, and demonstrate a variety of food system innovations that support ambitious goals in loss and waste reduction. This PhD project is based on the fact that reducing food waste and the environmental burden of our food system begin and end with the choices that consumers make. The objective of this project is therefore to develop recipes and menus with low expected food waste, high nutritional score, and low environmental impact of underlying supply chains. Also, the project aims to develop labels and scores to inform and trigger consumer behavioural change. The goal is also to demonstrate the use of macro-scale optimisation models that balance food waste reduction with high nutritional value and food affordability.

Start of the project: 1st Jan 2022
Deadline for applications: 30th Sept 2021
For more information: contact Hein Fleuren (fleuren@tilburguniversity.edu<about:blank>) before 9th Aug; and Frans Cruijssen (Frans.Cruijssen@tilburguniversity.edu<about:blank>) after 9th Aug.




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