Biotechnoloog vacatures bij Hortimare

Our Current Opportunities

We welcome applications for Funding & Project Specialist

Funding & Project Specialist

From: As soon as possible Language requirement : Dutch & English

As a Project & Subsidy Specialist, you turn opportunities into concrete, fundable innovation projects. You operate at the intersection of biology, technology and impact driven entrepreneurship. You identify relevant funding opportunities, write strong project proposals and coordinate consortia and collaborations without working hands-on in the lab. You ensure projects run smoothly from idea to application, and from planning to reporting.

Internships

Our next internship cohort starts in February 2025 - applications before December.

We welcome open applications year-round.

Please note: A valid European passport or work permit is required for our internship positions due to visa restrictions.

Biological

Internship: Red seaweed species

As an intern, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the development of cultivation techniques for emerging commercially relevant species. This position offers a unique hands-on learning opportunity on the techniques and challenges behind seaweed domestication.

You will learn how to set up and maintain long term cultures,

how to identify and control induction and production

parameters, while adding to the team's ongoing research.

The basis for breeding and establishing high quality production cultures of seaweed is clean starting material. We therefore focus on developing and establishing methods to prevent and mitigate biological contaminations in our cultures, while at the same time preserving the beneficial microbiome. As an intern, you will work alongside experienced researchers and breeding specialists to develop and implement solutions to this pressing issue. With our collaborations and projects with Leiden University and Wageningen, it is also possible to examine the microbiome using a molecular approach. This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in biotechnology research and contribute to the development of innovative solutions to real-world challenges.

Internship: nutrient media for production and breeding

As an intern you will work on identifying optimal nutrient media compositions for different stages of seaweed cultivation. You will need to familiarize yourself with maintaining seaweed cultures, saltwater nutrient chemistry and existing nutrient media to use as a basis for conducting your own experiments. You will work in a team of interns under the guidance of our scientists. The final product of your work should be a contribution to our understanding of seaweed cultivation and the components in incoming natural seawater and optimal ratios of macronutrients such as nitrogen and phosphate.

Business

Internship: Online Marketing & Communication

From: As soon as possible Period: 4-10 months

As Hortimare has taken a key position within the seaweed industry globally, we want to expand our online presence. Within this internship, you will have a big impact on the repositioning of Hortimare from a seed provider to a partner in scaling the seaweed sector and enable the public a better access to our work and services. Highlighting our focus on research, collaboration, quality, and expertise throughout different social media platforms is an essential part in this process.

Technical-biological

Internship: Seeding tech

As a Seeding Tech intern, you will work at the interface between biology, materials, and engineering. You will support the development, optimisation, and validation of techniques that improve seaweed seeding efficiency and reliability.

If it is hard to decide or you have your own proposal, you can express your interest in multiple positions and we can decide together what challenge would best fit your skills and ambitions. Send us an email with your resume and cover letter to:

Equal Employment Opportunity

Each of our candidates deserves to be treated with fairness, respect and dignity. We are an equal opportunity employer and committed to hiring, training, compensating, and promoting people based on their individual talents and abilities. We embrace diversity and opportunities are extended to employees and prospective employees without regard to race, colour, gender, religion, age, natural origin, family status, veteran status, sexual orientation, disability, or any other criteria.

Based in the Netherlands and working globally, Hortimare is one of the few companies in the world specialis ed in the breeding and propagating of seaweed. Our mission is to help others with our seeds, technology and expertise .

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