Development of a Multi-Objective Decision-Support Framework for Sustainable Packaging Design: From Material Fabrication to End-of-Life Scenarios

Context: Food packaging plays a crucial role in protecting food products and maintaining their quality and safety throughout the supply chain. This task is particularly important for highly perishable products preserved under modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). The design of sustainable packaging must therefore integrate multiple technical, environmental, and social constraints. These include material functionality, gas permeability, product shelf life, chemical and microbiological safety, consumer perception, recyclability, and overall environmental impact. The complexity of such systems requires innovative approaches that combine simulation, optimization, and multi-criteria assessment to support decision-making in packaging design.

Main objectiv of the PhD: How can be developed a decision-support tool to assist in the design of food packaging, allowing the integration of functional performance (e.g., barrier properties and shelf-life extension of perishable foods), environmental impacts, and realistic end-of-life pathways to optimize the sustainability of food packaging design sector?

Location: Joint Research Unit SayFood, campus Agro Paris-Saclay, Palaiseau (91120), FRANCE.

Resources: The candidate will have access to software licenses, computing resources, and support from students/interns for field-related tasks.

Salary: ~2300 € gross/month.

Starting date: Before March 2026.

Contacts : felipe.buendiakandia@agroparistech.fr ; bertrand.broyart@agroparistech.fr

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