44 English-speaking jobs in Wageningen

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.

Develop and implement primary packaging solutions and optimize secondary and tertiary packaging across the value chain. Translate complex requirements into practical solutions, aligning inputs from various departments.

Senior Packaging Regulatory Affairs Specialist ensures global packaging material compliance with food contact regulations. Provides expert guidance to internal and external stakeholders on compliance matters. Requires a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a relevant field and 8+ years of experience in food contact material compliance.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

Regulatory Affairs Manager to lead EU food and packaging compliance across Europe and North America. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure regulatory compliance for product and packaging development. Guide marketing claims strategy and risk management.

The EIT Food Accelerator Network (FAN) 2026 is a multi-hub European accelerator program supporting agrifood and foodtech startups. Selected startups will join one of six specialized hubs across Europe, each focused on a key theme shaping the future of food systems. The program provides expert mentorship, industry connections, and investment readiness support. Startups will undergo a rigorous selection process and, if successful, gain access to European research facilities, validation infrastructure, and the EIT Food Innovation Community. Funding opportunities are available at the end of the program.