Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Dairy Processing

School of Food & Nutritional Sciences

Permanent Whole Time Post

This position is being filled as part of UCC Futures: Food, Microbiome and Health.

UCC Futures is an ambitious new programme of research prioritisation, coupled with an innovative academic recruitment strategy spanning 10 strategically important indicative areas encompassing the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences, STEM, Health, Business and Law.

UCC Futures, Food, Microbiome and Health is a once in a generation opportunity to generate an ecosystem that will maximise the potential of our academic expertise and provide tangible, impactful, solutions in response to one of the most important global challenges of our time. 

UCC wishes to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Dairy Processing in the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences. The post-holder will be an established research scientist with an international reputation, an excellent publication record and significant potential for collaboration within the UCC research community. The post-holder will place particular emphasis on sustainable dairy processing in a system-oriented approach and will develop an interdisciplinary programme within the recently established Dairy Science Centre of Excellence located within the School of Food and Nutritional Sciences. The post-holder will link and add value to the dairy chain from primary production, through to ingredients, formulation, processing, quality, nutrition and health aspects.

Informal queries can be made in confidence to: Professor Seamus O’Mahony, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences

Appointment may be made on the Senior Lecturer Salary Scale: €75,426 – €106,871 (Scale B) / €72,840 - €101,527 (Scale A)

Applications must be submitted online via the University College Cork vacancy portal 

Queries relating to the online application process should be referred to mailto:uccfuturesrecruitment@ucc.ie, quoting the job-title.

Candidates should apply, in confidence, before 12 noon (Irish Local Time) on Thursday, 16th February 2023.

No late applications will be accepted.

University College Cork is an equal opportunities employer. We encourage you to reach out to us directly should you require assistance or reasonable accommodation during the recruitment process.

Please note that an appointment to posts advertised will be dependent on University approval, together with the terms of the employment control framework for the higher education sector.