In the Food Process Engineering Laboratory at Wageningen University & Research (WUR), we seek a talented, ambitious scientist for a Tenure Track position, who is interested in characterizing the fundamental behaviour of dispersions (emulsions, foams, suspensions) and translating this into processes for their preparation and use into food ingredients and structured food products. Are you our new Assistant or Associate professor in Food Process Technology?

Your activities will encompass both research and education in the field of food (process) engineering, with limited investment in management. We expect you to build up - with help and guidance - your own research group in a number of years, within the Tenure Track Programme of WUR, that you will enter at a level that is appropriate to your level of expertise. The educational activities will be within the Food Technology programme at WUR, on BSc, MSc and PhD level.

In this challenging career trajectory:

• You acquire, lead and implement innovative and creative(inter-) national research projects in Food Process Engineering;
• you collaborate with colleagues and supervise PhD students, BSc and MSc theses and you develop and teach courses;
• you contribute to the further development of the Food Process Engineering Laboratory.
• Tenure Track is a career path for hardworking scientists who pursue to excel in education and research. We seek to attract scientific talent and to stimulate and support their development.

• You have PhD degree in food technology, chemical engineering or similar;
• you are interested in the combination of the fundamental aspects of the field, or in (colloid) chemistry or applied physics or similar, and of the practical applications;
• you are creative and able to quantitatively relate the complex, practical behaviour of (food) processes and materials, to fundamental behaviour of fluids and solids (or vice versa);
• you are motivated to coach and inspire BSc, MSc and PhD students.
• you are fluent in the English language verbal and written;
• you have good writing skills and good oral communication skills;
• preferably you have some experience as post-doctorate fellow (abroad) or in industry

Wageningen University & Research offers excellent terms of employment. A few highlights from our Collective Labour Agreement include:

• Sabbatical leave, study leave, and paid parental leave;
• working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
• the option to accrue additional holiday hours by working more, up to 40 hours per week;
• there is a strong focus on vitality and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
• a fixed December bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent pension scheme.

In addition to these first-rate employee benefits, you will be offered a fixed-term, 7 year contract which, upon positive evaluation based on criteria elaborated in the University's Tenure Track policy, can lead to a permanent employment contract as professor. Depending on your experience, we offer a competitive gross salary of between € 3.746,-. and € 5.826,=. for a full-time working week of 38 hours in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreements for Dutch Universities (CAO-NU) (scale 11 or 12).

Wageningen University & Research encourages internal advancement opportunities and mobility with an internal recruitment policy. There are plenty of options for personal initiative in a learning environment, and we provide excellent training opportunities. We are offering a unique position in an international environment with a pleasant and open working atmosphere.

You are going to work at the greenest and most innovative campus in Holland, and at a university that has been chosen as the Best University in the Netherlands for the 16th consecutive time.

Coming from abroad
Wageningen University & Research is the university and research centre for life sciences. The themes we deal with are relevant to everyone around the world and Wageningen, therefore, has a large international community and a lot to offer to international employees. Applicants from abroad moving to the Netherlands may qualify for a special tax relief, known as the 30% ruling. Our team of advisors on Dutch immigration procedures will help you with the visa application procedures for yourself and, if applicable, for your family.

Feeling welcome also has everything to do with being well informed. Wageningen University & Research's International Community page contains practical information about what we can do to support international employees and students coming to Wageningen. Furthermore, we can assist you with any additional advice and information about helping your partner to find a job, housing, schooling, and other issues.

Wageningen University & Research

The Food Process Engineering Laboratory is a group of about 15-20 staff (scientific and technical), 50 - 60 PhD students and postdocs, and typically 50 - 80 BSc and MSc students doing their theses in our group per year. The group is internationally oriented and widely recognised and works together with scientific groups and industries from all over the world.

We work as team on finding new ways to prepare foods in much more sustainable ways, keeping them fresher and tastier, and healthier for the consumers. As foods are very complex products, we need to obtain deeper insight of their response to treatment, to understand how we could keep them in a fresher state, and how we could help people having a healthier diet. We aim for this at truly new principles for processing, not at improving existing processes. And we have found that there is a lot to explore.
We therefore have the ambition to grow further scientifically by investing in better understanding in 'multi-scale' phenomena, combining phenomena from (supra)molecular properties, mesoscale interactions, towards the prediction of macro-scale properties of foods or food components, under conditions of processing. We have a long tradition of collaboration with people in other academic groups over the world, within our own University, and with our group.

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, 6.800 employees and 12.900 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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We will recruit for the vacancy ourselves, so no employment agencies please. However, sharing in your network is appreciated.