Intern R&D Nutrition
Intern R&D Nutrition
Nourishing by Nature is the mission of FrieslandCampina. To provide people around the world with the right nutrition is the challenge. Within this internship you will contribute to this mission. During this internship you will perform data-analyses on the SEANUTS II study, a large observational study among 14,000 children in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam between 6 months and 12 years old (https://www.frieslandcampinainstitute.com/asia/seanuts).
What we ask
To be successful in this position, you are/have:
- A Master student, preferably in the area of Nutrition, Health or Human/Medical Biology or Biostatistics
- Current student with EU nationality or enrolled at a Dutch educational institute.
- A team player who can easily connect with peers, is motivated, and can work independently
- Good communication skills
- Can write & speak English fluently
- Available from September 2025
- 6 months
- 32-40 hours per week
- Parttime work is possible, but will extend the internship period
- Specialization in Epidemiology
- Experience with R and/or SPSS
- Preferable experience with analyzing large epidemiological datasets
What we offer
We offer an interesting and challenging internship position, providing you the opportunity to develop yourself in your work field. You can count on sufficient professional supervision and a reasonable internship allowance.
Vacancy description
Are you interested in epidemiological data-analyses? Do you want to work with a large dataset of 14 000 children? Then this internship would suit you.
Dairy is a basic food product, rich in essential nutrients. In Asia, dairy consumption is relatively low. Only young kids meet the daily dairy recommendations. Older children have higher intakes of other beverages like (malted) soft drinks. What would be the impact of nutrient intake if those beverages are replaced by dairy? The aim of this internship is to calculate this impact on population nutrient intake if dairy consumption would be increased to recommended levels at the expense of other less healthy beverages. Analyses will be conducted with the SEANUTS II data.
You will be responsible for:
- Making a research proposal and analyses plan
- Align the research proposal with internal stakeholders
- Preparing the dataset
- Conducting analyses
- A scientific report and internal presentation
Team Details
See all colleagues on LinkedInFor thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it’s not just about what we do, but who we are.
We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our 20,000 employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.
You will work in the R&D Nutrition team. This team consists of 30 members, of which a part is based in Wageningen, a part in Singapore, and a part in China. The R&D Nutrition team works together with other Research teams, Product Development teams and Marketing teams to: study health effects and thereby substantiate our products and support communication, and to generate communication towards health care professionals.
If you have any questions regarding this internship position, please contact Cécile Singh-Povel via cecile.singh-povel@frieslandcampina.com
We only process applications received via the website.