Research Fellow, Cultivated Meat & Seafood

Summary

Join the Good Food Institute (GFI), a nonprofit think tank dedicated to improving the global food system, as a Research Fellow, Cultivated Meat & Seafood. In this role, you will update and expand GFI's existing scientific explainers related to cultivated meat and seafood, ensuring accurate and comprehensive information is available to the research community. You will conduct a literature review, identify areas for expansion and improvement, draft updates, generate figures and visualizations, develop a fact sheet, assess opportunities to enhance GFI's End Product Tracker database, and present a summary of your findings to the Science and Technology team. This is a remote, 16-week position with a stipend of $4,800 paid biweekly.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (M.Sc or Ph.D.) in food science, tissue engineering, or aligned fields
• Candidates currently pursuing an advanced degree or with at least 2 years of relevant experience will be considered
• No candidates currently pursuing an undergraduate degree will be considered
• A strong understanding of the cultivated meat and seafood production process and associated challenges, especially those related to end products and scaffolding
• Strong skills in analyzing and interpreting data, including the ability to go beyond simply summarizing to draw meaningful conclusions and suggest future research directions
• Strong scientific writing skills and ability to communicate effectively to both scientific audiences and science-interested lay audiences
• Ability to perform independent, self-paced work
• A commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion and to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels like they belong
• Comfort working remotely and in a rapidly growing and evolving organization
• Strong support for GFI’s philosophy and mission; demonstrated interest in plant-based & other alt proteins, public health, environmentalism, climate change, animal protection, or hunger relief
• A commitment to GFI’s values: believe change is possible, do the most good we can, share knowledge freely, act on evidence, and invite everyone to the table

Responsibilities

• Conducting a literature review to identify relevant scientific advances from the past ~2 years that should be included in an update to GFI’s existing “Deep Dive” resources on cultivated meat and seafood scaffolding and end products
• Identifying areas where our coverage of these topics could be expanded, improved, or clarified
• Drafting updates to the two resources mentioned above and incorporating edits and feedback from other members of GFI’s Science and Technology team
• Generating figures and visualizations to add to these resources
• Developing a fact sheet to answer common questions about cultivated meat end products
• Assessing opportunities to improve upon GFI’s existing cultivated meat End Product Tracker database, including incorporating data from this tool into the related Deep Dive page
• Presenting a summary of findings to GFI’s Science and Technology team at the end of the fellowship tenure

Preferred Qualifications

Strong skills in designing and creating scientific figures are a plus

Benefits

• Position Type: Independent Contractor
• Position Term: 10 hours of work a week for 16 weeks
• Location: Remote, United States
• Stipend: $4,800 and will be paid pro-rata biweekly over the length of the assignment ($30/hour for 16 weeks)