吃貨學霸在哪兒？劍橋大學開設巧克力博士學位

文◎Maev Kenndy 譯◎進擊的Meredith 繪◎甜栗蘇

Cambridge University is advertising for a PhD student to examine the qualities of chocolate in hot weather.

It could be a sweet job for the right candidate, but demands a good university degree, engineering and physics skills, a track record in scientific experimentation, extensive experience of studying soft solids, and good maths. A sweet tooth might also help: more than three years of full-time chocolate is not a career for the soft-centred.

劍橋大學正在征聘巧克力的博士生，來研究如何在高溫下保證巧克力的質量。

由于這項研究項目屬于“實驗性質的科學研究”，有意者至少要擁有名校本科學歷、具有扎實的數學基礎才能勝任。此外，課程中還需運用大量工程學及物理學的知識。如果你是一名

Cambridge University is advertising for a PhD student to tackle①a three-and-a-half-year research project, into how chocolate can "remain solid and retain qualities sought by consumers", when stored and sold in warm climates.

The problem will be familiar to anyone who has ever put aside a treat to consume later on a warm day and been heartbroken to discover it turned into chocolate sauce: chocolate, the ad points out, "has a melting point close to that of the human body".

The job – only open to EU candidates – has an undisclosed②sponsor described as having "existing technology in this fi eld". The project, the ad continues, "will develop a fundamental understanding of the area which extends beyond the industrial need".

The job, based in the school of chemical engineering and biotechnology③, will start on January 2015, so candidates might do well to find a large bar and a cool place, and put in a bit of practical research immediately.甜食愛好者，這可能也會是個加分項——和巧克力共處三年多可不是人人都能勝任的。

劍橋大學為一個為期三年半的研究項目征聘博士生，專攻如何在溫暖的環境中阻止朱古力過早熔化；同時要保證巧克力的味道、質量不受影響，從而讓巧克力可以在溫暖的氣候下妥善保存和出售。

有時我們會將巧克力放在一邊，想著稍后再吃，卻“悲劇”地發現它變成了巧克力醬，這一場景對我們來說再熟悉不過。正如宣傳中指出的，巧克力的熔點接近人體溫度，因此很容易變軟。

這次征聘只面向歐盟國家，其資助者身份不明，據悉，他已經擁有了“該領域的既存技術”。宣傳廣告上還講到，這一項目“已經不僅僅限于滿足工業需求，它會深化人們對這一領域的基本認知”。

此項目于2015年1月開始，它以化學工程技術和生物工程技術為基礎，因此研究者們最好找一個大巧克力棒和涼快的地方，并立刻開始始研研究究。。

① tackle 英 ['t?k(?)l] 美 ['t?kl] n. 滑車；裝備；用具；扭倒vt. 處理；抓住；固定；與……交涉vi. 扭倒；攔截搶球

②undisclosed[,?nd?s'klozd] adj. 未泄露的；身分不明的；保持秘密的

③ biotechnology 英 [,ba??(?)tek'n?l?d??]美 ['ba?ot?k'nɑl?d?i] n. [生物 ] 生物技術；[生物 ] 生物工藝學