Neuroscience Research Intern Ashford, Kent, South East England, England
Job description
Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with passion and creativity, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your talent, your innovative spirit, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
Givaudan. Our name is an invitation to engage your senses. As the world’s leading Flavours and Fragrance company, we unveil the tastes and scents that touch people’s emotions, from prestige perfumes to laundry care, from your favourite drink to your daily meal. Our flavours and fragrances serve our customers in the food, beverage, consumer goods and fine fragrance industries to create brands that delight customers. This means we create perfume for brands which require support from a range of teams in the Science & Technology (S&T). The company owns 25% of market share in the industry. Last year alone, Givaudan invested almost half a billion CHF to Research and Development, more than any of our competitors.
The Role
Fragrance plays an important role in influencing our thoughts and feelings, often without us realizing. In order to develop fragrances which positively modulate emotional and perceptual responses in the mind of a consumer, it is important to be able to measure and understand the effects that fragrance has on the human brain and on consumers’ behavior and well-being.
We have a one-year internship opportunity, commencing anytime in Summer 2023, within the Fragrance S&T Department based within the Health & Well-Being Centre of Excellence in Ashford, Kent.
The Candidate
The successful candidate will be involved in collaborative research projects based within the Neuroscience Research group, based in the Givaudan Health & Well-Being Centre of Excellence in Ashford, Kent, where her/his role will be to turn research needs into technological solutions and to offer the neuroscientific support throughout the entirety of the project. Such projects will be developed in the context of odours, olfactory perception, emotions and well-being. These projects rely on the investigation of consumers and panelists by combining psychophysical, cognitive, behavioural and state-of-the-art physiological and neuroimaging techniques to pursue an active line of research in odours, emotion and behaviour.
- Required: BSc/MSc in Neuroscience/Psychology/Cognitive Science/Consumer Science or related disciplines
- Project management skills: ability to lead a project with guidance
- Ability to work independently is essential
- Ability to problem-solve, learn quickly
- Ability to proficiently extract and summarize information from scientific papers
- Ability to report clearly, quickly and accurately
- Ability to build and maintain interpersonal and professional relationships
- Contribute to ideas to on-going projects
- Have excellent team working and (written/spoken) communication skills
- Be numerate and computer literate (knowledge of/exposure to Matlab software would be advantageous)
- Be self-motivated
- Experience with fragrance industry is desirable but not essential
Givaudan offers a competitive salary and a supportive, friendly working environment.
For more information on Givaudan – visit our website at www.givaudan.com
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Givaudan is committed to equal opportunities. Therefore, we welcome applications regardless of cultural and social background, gender, age, religion or sexual identity.
We also have a safe working environment, progressive working conditions and are certified as an equal pay employer.
