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Are you interested in exploring the interactions between early life environment, mucosal microbiomes, and life-long health and welfare in an important aquaculture fish species, rainbow trout? Are you comfortable both with a pipet on hand in the lab and getting out and working in collaboration with the aquaculture industry? Here is an opportunity for you! At DTU’s National Institute of Aquatic resources, we offer a 3-year PhD position with a focus on interactions between fish microbiomes and health and welfare in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS). You will be employed in the Section for Aquaculture, located at our campus in Hirtshals in the beautiful Northern part of Denmark. The section is a vibrant international group that holds a strong expertise in the different aspects of aquacul...

Do you care about fish welfare? Do you want to make a difference for fish and put their wellbeing on focus for the aquaculture of the future? DTU Aqua is seeking a motivated and qualified candidate to develop research and methodological tools to assess and to improve the welfare of farmed fish, contributing to the sustainability of aquaculture practices in the EU. We offer a 3-year PhD position based in our campus in Hirtshals, North Jutland.You will develop research in our state-of-the-art facilities and in connection to real fish farming scenarios in Denmark, directed to better understand welfare hazards and welfare consequences of different operational practices with fish on-farm, during transport and at slaughter. Among other tasks, you will further develop and validate indicators and ...