Internship – Phytosanitary Treatments

The IAEA seeks an intern in Seibersdorf to support research on environmentally sustainable phytosanitary treatments for fruit flies. The intern will maintain fruit-fly colonies and diets, assist cold-, hot-water and irradiation experiments, dissect infested fruit, record results and perform thermocouple calibration measurements for treatment research at the laboratory.

• Maintain fruit-fly colonies for phytosanitary-treatment research
• Prepare larval and adult diets
• Evaluate cold, hot-water and irradiation treatments
• Dissect infested fruit used in treatment experiments
• Record experimental data
• Perform thermocouple calibration measurements

• University degree in biology or agricultural sciences
• Experience rearing fruit flies of economic importance
• Minimum age of 20 and at least three years of full-time university study toward a first degree
• Good written and spoken English
• No previous participation in the IAEA internship programme
• Two signed letters of recommendation

• Fluency in another IAEA official language is an asset

• Fruit fly rearing
• Phytosanitary treatments
• Experimental research
• Data recording
• Thermocouple calibration

• Thermocouple

• Official source conflict: structured header lists Duration in Months as 1, while the narrative Duration states 12 months