The PhD student in this program should be able to combine and analyse knowledge regarding chemical analysis of feed, biochemistry, microbiology and animal nutrition. PhD student should also develop skills on how to design, organize and manage animal farms and animal production processes in animals, especially ruminants. PhD student should have good computer skills as they have to analyse data and make use of different univariate or multivariate statistical techniques.

In the research project, supporting the PhD, will be involved 1 Full professor and 1 Associate professor, expert in Animal Nutrition and Feed Evaluation. Further, the research team comprises a lab technician, 2 PostDoc and another PhD student. An experimental facility will be used to carry out specific trial on optimized ensiling techniques should be adopted on wet co-products to reduce greenhouse emission from silage and improve nutritional quality. The lab are equipped with a HPLC-MS/MS, a bidimensional GC-MS/MS, two GC, a UHPLC-HRMS Q-Tof and a UHPLC-HRMS Orbitrap MS-analyzers, three NIRS. Other labs are equipped to analyze forage for chemicals, biological and microbiological evaluations.