Description

Corteva Agriscience™, the world's first dedicated agriculture start-up, serves to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. Our employees fulfill this purpose everyday by building/participating in an inclusive culture where we encourage each other to stay curious, think differently, act boldly and do what's right for our customers, our co-workers, our partners and our planet. With over 20,000 team members from 130 countries, innovating in 140 world class R&D facilities, we have the resources, leadership heritage and partner ecosystem to make a meaningful impact now and into the future.

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The Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) and Residues teams (subgroups of the Human Safety function) are seeking an intern to support the development of:

• a database for foliar residues of pesticide products in various crops, and perform statistical analysis based on different parameters
• a residue database made up of publicly available residue data to improve residue estimation and benchmarking purposes.

Foliar residues (total residues in/on crops and dislodgeable residues from leaf surfaces) are a critical parameter in the prediction of exposure to consumers and workers whose contact with plant protection products is mainly through dried residues on crops and food commodities. These residues are measured in field studies and used in human health risk assessment.

Responsibilities – What You'll Do

The project will involve (HHRA):

• Data mining from foliar residue field studies and publicly available residue data
• Estimation of decline kinetics from residue decline and dislodgable foliar residue decline studies and consequent analysis.
• Collation and statistical analysis of various study parameters to enable the development of strategies and approaches for read-across of residue data to multiple crops. The ability to bridge foliar residue data across crops and products is critical in providing more realistic human health risk assessments.
• Analyzing relationship between total residues and dislodgeable foliar residues (DFR)

The project will involve (Residue):

• Data mining from publicly available third-party reports covering crop and animal residue data points that impact human health risk assessment outcomes.
• Help to generate an easily accessible database of information for benchmarking purposes as well as meta-analysis of trending topics such as proportionality and impact of seasonality/zoning on residue values.
• Improve accuracy of pre-development stage compound risk assessment by enabling more accurate residue prediction in animal commodities and the use of surrogate compounds for risk assessment purposes in general.

Demonstrate independent and creative thinking by developing a user-friendly database, interpreting data, identifying potential relationship/correlations and drawing sound scientific conclusions

Provide project updates throughout the internship to both the HHRA and Residues groups within Human Safety.

Work in a safe manner and embody Corteva's safety culture.

Location: Milton Park, UK

Duration: up to 12 months

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Qualifications

Required Qualifications – What You'll Bring

The ideal candidate for this internship must:

• Be currently pursuing or have recently completed postgraduate (master's or doctorate) studies in a relevant discipline
• Have technical experience with Microsoft Excel and other statistical analysis packages such as R or Python.
• Applicants with a background in Data/Information Science and/or Statistics will be strongly considered for this role.
• Ability to interpret complex technical data and provide recommendations and implications.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills that allow dissemination of complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to a variety of scientific audiences.
• Must be able to commute to Milton Park, UK, as needed for the duration of the internship.
• Must be able to work full-time (40 hours per week) during the internship.

Opportunities – What You'll Get

• Work closely with senior scientists in an industrial setting
• Extensive opportunities to network across a global company
• Tailored training to help you understand the types of data you will be working with
• Apply your skills to develop a solution to a real-world problem that impacts human health risk assessment and residue science in a leading agrochemical solutions company.
• Work independently and be creative