Predoctoral Researcher in Food–Human–Wastewater Microbiome and Resistome Analysis

The Catalan Institute for Water Research (ICRA) seeks a motivated predoctoral researcher to join the FOODTRACK project, an interdisciplinary initiative funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science. The role involves developing a doctoral thesis focused on analyzing microbial communities, antibiotic resistance genes, and mobile genetic elements across food baskets, human biological samples, and wastewater matrices. The position integrates microbiology, metagenomics, bioinformatics, and wastewater-based epidemiology to investigate connections between dietary exposures, the human gut microbiome, and population-scale signals in wastewater. The researcher will work within a multidisciplinary team, contribute to scientific publications, and receive training in experimental and computational approaches.