Research Associate LCA of food and food waste @ Agroscope

The ‘Life Cycle Assessment’ Research Group investigates environmental impacts and sustainability assessment in the agriculture and food sector. It develops methodologies, data and tools, applying them in projects concerning agricultural production systems, farms, or the agricultural sector with a view to improving agricultural products, foods, diets, nutritional scenarios, and agricultural policy measures.

The job remit involves contributing to two projects:
In the EU project ‘WASTEWISE’ you will calculate the environmental impacts of food waste along the life cycle with life-cycle analyses and quantify the impact of avoidance measures. In the project ‘Basis for the quantitative evaluation of the ecological sustainability of Swiss free-trade agreements’ you will quantify the environmental impacts of imported food and feed with life-cycle assessments.

This is how you can contribute
Creating life-cycle inventories for foods and imported products (including quality- and knowledge assurance)
Calculating life-cycle assessments for foods, food waste and imported products
Refining and developing models, methodologies and life-cycle inventories
Publication of the results in international and national scientific journals
Defining and applying strategies for quantifying environmental impacts in the event of missing data

This makes you unique
Achievement-oriented, team-oriented and flexible personality
University degree in the field of agricultural, environmental or food sciences or similar education
Experience in life-cycle assessment and creating life-cycle inventories; good IT skills (knowledge of Python an advantage)
Good knowledge of the agriculture and food sectors; solid  knowledge of environmental sciences
Knowledge of two official Swiss languages and a very good command of written and spoken English

Additional information

If this position appeals to you and you meet the requirements profile, we look forward to receiving your online application at www.stelle.admin.ch, ref. no. 12307 (English is not an official Swiss language, please choose German, French or Italian as correspondence language).

For further information, please contact Dr. Mélanie Douziech, [email protected], Tel. 058 465 87 60, or Dr. Thomas Nemecek, [email protected], Tel. 058 468 72 54 (please do not send job applications to these email addresses).

Start date: 1 Jan. 2025 or as agreed. The post is for a fixed term of 2.5 years.