Ph.D. scholarship - Adaptive physiology of growing beef cattle

Agroscope • Remote, Remote, Switzerland • Posted June 10, 2026

Location Remote, Remote

Job Type Full-time

Category PLA

Posted June 10, 2026

Topic description  
This is how you can contribute  
Planning and active participation to a beef cattle experiment 
Coordination of sampling and measurements on cattle, both alive and at the slaughterhouse, using state-of-the-art imaging technologies 
Management of longitudinal datasets, advance statistical analyses and interpretation 
Optimization and evaluation of a mechanistic model of the growth function and the kinetics of the body fat-to-lean ratio 
Communication and publication of results in scientific journals, scientific reporting for funders and stakeholders 
Project management and collaboration within an international consortium 
In a nutshell  
The PhD candidate will contribute to the research project “iREACT – IntegRativE biology approach to understand Adaptive physiology of bovine reared on grass to produce low Carbon meaT”. Grass-fed cattle production should be cons...
            

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