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R&D Food & Protein
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Fermentation & Bioprocess R&D Intern
Internship | 6 months | 32 h/week | On-site, Rotterdam | €550/month | Start: October 2026 (or as soon as possible)
Fooditive is a Rotterdam food-biotech company developing ingredients through precision fermentation. During this internship, you will review partner data, compare technical options, prepare experimental plans and support decisions on the next steps in development.
This is an office-based R&D internship, not a hands-on laboratory position.
You will gain a full view of how an industrial fermentation process moves from strain design to scale-up.
About Your Next Colleagues
Our R&D runs through a network of specialist laboratories, CDMOs and manufacturing partners. You will receive regular scientific supervision and feedback and gain exposure to specialist labs, CDMOs and manufacturing partners.
About Your Tasks and Responsibilities
Strain engineering and molecular biology
- Review and organise strain-development work: DNA sequences, plasmid maps, constructs and expression systems
- Help prepare experimental plans and technical instructions for partner laboratories
Fermentation
- Compare fermentation conditions, media, process parameters and results across runs
- Summarise partner fermentation data into clear performance overviews
Downstream processing and analytics
- Review clarification, separation, purification and concentration steps
- Compare recovery, yield and purity; interpret SDS-PAGE, ELISA and protein-concentration data
Documentation and coordination
- Run focused literature searches and write concise technical summaries
- Keep clear records of experiments, decisions and open questions
- Track partner activities, sample movements and project milestones
About Your Skills and Experience
- Enrolled in an MSc or final-year BSc/HBO programme in Biotechnology, Bioprocess or Biochemical Engineering, Molecular Biology, Microbiology, Food Biotechnology or a related field
- Solid grounding in recombinant protein expression, fermentation and downstream processing
- Comfortable reading scientific reports and working carefully with experimental data
- Someone who takes ownership, works well without supervision and flags early when stuck
- Fluent in English
A plus: experience with E. coli expression systems, SDS-PAGE, ELISA, protein purification or bioprocess development.
This internship is open to students currently enrolled at a Dutch or EU university or university of applied sciences (HBO) who already live in the Netherlands. Your institution must be able to sign an internship agreement. We cannot offer visa sponsorship or relocation support.
About Your Benefits
- Real R&D responsibility on live projects, not a side project
- Exposure to specialist labs, CDMOs and manufacturing partners
- Regular scientific supervision and feedback
- €550 monthly allowance, a certificate of completion and, where earned, a personal recommendation
Where Molecules Meet Opportunities
What you get instead is rare at student level: a full view of how an industrial fermentation process moves from strain design to scale-up, and direct exposure to the partners who run it.
Only apply if...
Are legally authorised to undertake an internship in the Netherlands
For more info about us please visiti :
www.fooditivegroup.com
You are eligible to work in EU
We only accept applicants who are eligible to work in the EU
Contact person
samar Abushokhedim
Fooditive is a pioneering Dutch biotechnology company providing a validated precision fermentation PLATFORM for licensing. We empower global food & beverage leaders and ingredient innovators to unlock next-generation sustainable food solutions. Our core mission is to make breakthrough sustainable nutrition affordable and accessible worldwide.
We achieve this by licensing our cutting-edge, capital-efficient Fooditive Engine™ – a versatile technology capable of producing a range of high-performance animal-free molecules (like those behind our US FDA GRAS Sweetener and industrially-validating Non-Animal Casein). Our innovtation, often use the power upcycled feedstocks, to enables our partners to significantly reduce environmental impact while delivering superior sensory experiences and functionalities.
With a new brand identity underscoring our commitment to technological leadership and catalysing global change, Fooditive is actively seeking visionary partners and investors. Let's co-create the future of food – sustainably, scalably, and impactfully.