The Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality group invites applications from candidates for a professorship to strengthen our team. You will contribute to the further advancement of our research on soil chemical processes driving environmental change, using quantitative and mechanistic approaches, and complement the existing knowledge in our group. Furthermore, you will teach in our bachelor's and master's program.

We encourage applications at both assistant and associate professor, and also consider candidates that may qualify directly for a position as full professor. Given our current gender balance, we strongly encourage female applicants to apply. The anticipated start date of the position is July 1st 2021.

The chair group Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality is engaged in fundamental soil chemical research and education. We seek to develop a generic understanding of processes at the molecular scale and nanoscale, in relation to ecosystem services such as soil fertility, carbon sequestration, and sustainment of soil and groundwater quality. Furthermore, we focus on how these underlying processes and functions are influenced by closing cycles and increasing use of residual/waste materials in the soil environment. We follow a research strategy based on novel experimental/analytical techniques and geochemical model development and application.

Our group also runs a large state-of-the-art chemical laboratory and WEPAL, a world-leading organiser of proficiency testing programmes for soil, sediment, plants and organic waste.
Our main research themes are:

• Soil fertility: soil chemical controls on the bioavailability of nutrients, and their coupling to biological processes, in support of sustainable nutrient management and food security.
• Environmental geochemistry: identifying and quantifying processes that control soil and groundwater quality; new challenges arising from increasing recycling of materials ("circular economy") and behaviour of emerging contaminants.
• Soil carbon: biogeochemical processes controlling carbon sequestration and nutrient availability; analytical characterization of soil carbon in light of its multiple roles in soil functioning.

• a PhD in soil chemistry, colloid chemistry, (bio)geochemistry, or environmental chemistry;
• post-doctoral experience with academic research;
• experience in academic teaching; you have a University Teaching Qualification (UTQ/BKO) or the commitment to acquire it within 3 years from the beginning of the appointment;
• an excellent track record of high-impact scientific publications and successfully acquired research projects;
• broad experience with supervision of MSc and PhD students and general research leadership;
• a strong collaborative network with other key research groups in the field of soil chemistry;
• strong communication skills and the ability to share enthusiasm for our research and educational domain with students in lectures, practicals and field work, as well as with others inside and outside the academic world;
• skills and expertise complementary to those currently present within the group (e.g in spectroscopy, microscopy, or molecular modelling).

Publication record, experience in teaching and project acquisition will be evaluated together with the career stage of the applicant. In the final selection, the candidate's complementarity with the group and collaborative match with our staff members will be the most important determining factor to hire the new colleague.

On the level of assistant and associate professor we offer a tenure-track position that will be converted to a permanent position when the tenure-track requirements are fulfilled. The Tenure Track trajectory provides an excellent environment for you to grow, excel and work within the department to make a difference in our field! Successful evaluation will allow growing towards a full professor holding a Personal Chair. This includes the chance to define your own research line and research group.

For applicants that already meet the criteria we will also consider direct appointment as full professor. More information about this trajectory can be found here. We offer training and coaching, as well as opportunities to work part-time (0.8-1 FTE).

We offer a competitive gross salary, dependent on experience, will range from a minimum of € 3.637, to a maximum of € 4.978,- (assistant professor position), € 5039,- to a maximum of € 6133,- (associate professor position) for a full working week of 38 hours in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement Dutch Universities. In case of an appointment as full professor another salary and procedure applies. Contact us for more info if this applies to you.

In addition, we offer

• 8% holiday allowance;
• a structural year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent training opportunities and secondary employment conditions;
• flexible working hours and holidays can possibly be determined in consultation so that an efficient balance between work and private life is possible;
• excellent pension plan through ABP;
• 232 vacation hours, the option to purchase extra and good supplementary leave schemes;
• a flexible working time: the possibility to work 2 hours per week extra and thereby to build up extra leave;
• a choice model to put together part of your employment conditions yourself, such as a bicycle plan;
• a lively workplace where you can easily make contacts and where many activities are organized on the Wageningen Campus. A place where education, research and business are represented;
• use the sports facilities on campus for a reduced fee.

We stimulate internal career opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are ample opportunities for own initiative in a learning environment.
We offer a versatile job in an international environment with varied activities in a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

Wageningen University & Research

Wageningen University & Research The mission of Wageningen University and Research is "To explore the potential of nature to improve the quality of life". Under the banner Wageningen University & Research, Wageningen University and the specialised research institutes of the Wageningen Research Foundation have joined forces in contributing to finding solutions to important questions in the domain of healthy food and living environment.

With its roughly 30 branches, 6.500 employees and 12.500 students, Wageningen University & Research is one of the leading organisations in its domain. An integrated approach to problems and the cooperation between various disciplines are at the heart of Wageningen's unique approach. WUR has been named Best Employer in the Education category for 2019-2020.

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