46 English-speaking jobs in Wageningen

Bioinformatician to design a database for a large bacterial culture collection. Responsibilities include cataloging, integrating metadata, genome mining, and supervising students. Requires experience in bioinformatics, machine learning, database management, and genome mining.

Microbiologist to design ecology-inspired elicitors for antibiotic discovery. Responsibilities include genome mining, activating silent gene clusters, and testing natural products against multi-drug resistant bacteria. Requires experience in microbiology, molecular biology, and high-throughput bioassays.

Postdoctoral researcher to develop self-supervised learning approaches for plant phenotyping using large-scale, multi-temporal plant image datasets.

The Manager Food Safety & Scientific Risk Assessment leads scientific risk assessments for new products, ingredients, and technologies. This role partners with R&D and Innovation teams to ensure safe product development and regulatory compliance. The position requires a Master's or PhD in a relevant field and minimum 5 years of experience in food safety.

Packaging Development Technologist will lead projects focused on sustainable, innovative, and high-quality packaging solutions. Develop and validate packaging, ensure compliance with regulations, and collaborate with cross-functional teams. Requires a degree in Packaging Technology, Engineering, or a related field and experience in project management.

Leads the digital and IT agenda for the regional Agro Testing business line, shaping technology to enable business growth, efficiency, and innovation. Ensures alignment with Group-wide IT standards and promotes the adoption of centralized solutions. Oversees IT operations, major transformation programs, and the regional IT budget. Fosters a culture of collaboration and innovation between IT and the business.

Researcher/Lecturer in Food Microbiology will conduct research on the safety of plant-based foods, focusing on Bacillus cereus. Responsibilities include quantifying heat resistance, germination, and outgrowth kinetics, developing predictive models, and publishing research findings. The role also includes teaching responsibilities such as developing educational materials, supervising lab classes, and supervising research projects.

Conduct research and coordinate the project "Food Waste: Practices and Societal Transformations." Examine consumption patterns and practices related to food waste among citizens, retailers, and policymakers. Develop practical toolkits to facilitate the adoption of circular food consumption practices.

Develop nutritionally optimized food products ensuring compliance with regulations and consumer health needs. Analyze nutritional composition, conduct research, and ensure labeling accuracy.

PhD candidate to develop innovative methods and models for monitoring and interpreting crop canopy transpiration using thermal imaging and microclimate sensing. Will conduct experiments, analyze data, and collaborate with researchers, engineers, and growers.

Assistant Professor position in Parasite Immunomodulation at Wageningen University. Develop an independent research line focusing on cellular and immunological mechanisms underlying parasite infections in animal systems. Contribute to interdisciplinary collaborations and develop a competitive funding portfolio. Teach courses at BSc and MSc level and supervise thesis students.

PhD candidate to investigate the prediction of protease cleavage sites in food proteins and peptide release kinetics during digestion using analytical chemistry and data-driven modelling.

PhD candidate to study the safety of crop production using treated wastewater for irrigation, focusing on organic micropollutants (OMPs) and PFAS. Responsibilities include building a model for OMP and PFAS transfer from wastewater to crops, performing experiments, and identifying mechanisms of OMP and PFAS uptake in plants.

PhD candidate to study the use of biofiltration systems for removing organic micropollutants and PFAS from concentrated streams in the context of drinking water production.

PhD position within the BlueVantage research consortium focused on developing next generation municipal wastewater treatment technologies. Research will involve studying fractionation of organic wastewater components, assessing biodegradability, and developing low-temperature microbial consortia for contaminant removal.

PhD candidate to study ion exchange for ammonium removal from wastewater, developing models and conducting experiments within a research consortium focused on next-generation municipal wastewater treatment technologies.

Co-founder to lead business strategy, operations, fundraising, and team building for a plant biotech startup developing sustainable natural rubber production in temperate climates.

PhD position to develop vision-language models for biodiversity and environmental monitoring using Earth observation, drone, and in situ images. Develop new machine learning methods for learning efficient and interpretable representations from real-world data. Collaborate with international researchers to advance AI/computer vision for ecology.

PhD candidate to develop approaches to monitor and interpret canopy-level photosynthesis using chlorophyll fluorescence imaging and microclimate data. Will design and execute greenhouse and vertical-farm experiments, use and validate multilayer photosynthesis models, and investigate short- and long-term regulatory processes. Collaborate with technology providers, growers, and researchers to integrate imaging-based insights into climate-control tools.

PhD position to investigate novel genes involved in female differentiation in parasitoid wasps using RNA interference and CRISPR/Cas9.