Junior Product Scientist- Emulsion Structure

 

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

 

Location: Wageningen, Netherlands 

On-site

About the role

As Junior Product Scientist Emulsion Structure, you will:

• Build fundamental understanding of emulsion structure
• Build fundamental understanding of ingredient interactions in complex emulsions for cream performance (heat stability, acid stability, whipping performance)
• Assess emulsion stability in process and product performance
• Assess different functional proteins in model emulsions and creams
• Build analytical toolbox for emulsion characterization
• Build a model to predict emulsion functionality
• Validate findings on the pilot scale
• Build a toolbox for clean label creams

First projects to deliver:

• Structural understanding of emulsion structure with different functional proteins. Assessing emulsion structure stability in process and model product
• Building understanding of ingredient interactions in complex emulsions (hydrocolloid, protein, oil) for cream performance (heat and stability, whipping)
  
  

So, what does it take to be successful in this role?

MSc in the field of food science, food chemistry, food ingredient functionality food process engineering or similar.

• Understanding emulsions, emulsifiers
• Knowledge of methods to characterize interfacial and physical properties
• Be able to link micro and macro structural properties to computational/predicting models
• Eye for the detail
  
  

What’s Next?

If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now! The deadline to apply is May 16th.

 

 

 

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