06 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands

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Are you a PhD graduate eager to take the next leap in your academic journey? Look no further! Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands invites online applications for prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowships across a wide range of research fields. Don’t miss out on this opportunity to propel your career forward.

Candidates interested in Postdoctoral Fellowships can check the details and may apply as soon as possible.

(01) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoc Seed Desiccation GreenTE

As part of the GreenTE Gravitation program, we are looking for a talented, motivated, and proactive postdoctoral researcher who is interested in unravelling the mechanosensing mechanisms of seed desiccation survival.

Producing dry seeds is vital for plants since it enables them to survive in harsh environmental conditions and it ensures that their species can thrive over time. Extreme loss of water (or desiccation) during seed development or germination is an important factor that affects seed survival, resilience, and storability. However, little is still known about how drying is sensed and integrated into seed developmental programs.
Within the GreenTE Gravitation program, you will work as a postdoctoral researcher in the ‘Seed Resilience Group’ to investigate how mechanical and biochemical signals trigged by drying affect the transcriptome (RNA-seq) and phosphoproteome during seed maturation and germination in Arabidopsis thaliana. Besides designing and conducting experiments, analyzing the results and writing scientific manuscripts, you will also have the opportunity to contribute with teaching and supervising MSc and BSc students.

Deadline :2 September 2024

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(02) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Post-doctoral researcher in fishing effort displacement in the North Sea

A post-doctoral researcher who is enthusiastic about studying displacement of fishing effort as a result of marine spatial planning. The progressive zoning of the North Sea affects the operating space for fisheries. We are looking for somebody who is interested in developing and applying mathematical models for fishing effort displacement to forecast changes in the socio-economy of our fishing fleets.

in the transition to sustainable energy, Brexit, and the EU nature protection policy, large parts of the North Sea may be closed to fishing. The research question for this project is how these closures affect the operational choices of the (remaining) fishers, such as their fishing location and fishing gear use. These choices affect the ecological effects that fishing has on the marine environment, and the socio-economic results of the fishery. In addition to area closures, there are other changes to the context in which the fishery operates (e.g. the EU landing obligation and the rising costs of energy use). All these factors affect the choice of fishing gear and fishing ground. Your role will be to develop and apply models for forecasting these choices and their effects on the socio-economy of fishing fleets.

As a Post-doctoral researcher you will be a member of a larger interdisciplinary research project together with economists from Wageningen Economic Research and ecologists from Wageningen Marine Research. The project aims to develop a model that can be used to test the effects of different scenarios for the future of Dutch demersal fisheries as a result of the changes in marine spatial planning in particular the development of offshore renewables.

Deadline : 30 August 2024

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(03) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoctoral researcher in ethnographies of marine restoration and global China in Southeast Asia

A rise of ecological restoration programs world-wide aims to reverse the decline of ocean health by repairing and rebuilding marine and coastal natures. These efforts reveal a shift from protecting nature towards more active human intervention to shape new natures for an uncertain future. In this shift, narratives of care, sustainability and calls to radically transform how we know and relate to the sea mix with technoscientific enterprises to scale up restoration at increasing speed and scale. Both global geopolitical dynamics and local ecologies of human-sea relations based on different philosophies of nature are at play. While there is rising critique on restoration as a form of western ecological imperialism, what is less understood is the role of non-western philosophies – in particular Chinese and traditional understandings of nature – in the current re-building of marine nature at scale.

Deadline : 26 August 2024

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(04) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoc position – Modelling the economic and other burdens of animal disease

The Business Economics Group of Wageningen University is looking for an ambitious and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher with expertise in animal disease modelling. The candidate will work on the societal burden of animal diseases, which is multifaceted. For decades, the field of animal health economics has worked on estimating the economic burden of animal diseases, thereby supporting decisions of farmers and other stakeholders in food supply chains. This has been the core of our work at Wageningen University also. However, besides the economic burden, animal diseases may also have an animal welfare, environmental and public health burden which are increasingly valued by society. While estimates of the economic burden of disease are commonly available, quantitative information of the other, non-monetary burdens is mostly absent. With this project, we aim to develop methods to estimate these burdens and to jointly evaluate them using simulation models.

Deadline : 26 August 2024

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(05) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoc Inner living environments

The consortium project “Toekomstbestendige Leefomgeving”, funded by the Nationaal Groeifonds, brings together a variety of stakeholders (including architects and engineers, public administrators, researchers, and civil society) related to the construction sector with the aim to design healthy and sustainable urban living environments.

These stakeholders come together in transdisciplinary living labs that are dedicated to specific construction-related problems and collaborate to finding applicable solutions to these problems. An essential task for such kind of living labs lies in making sure that the involved stakeholders can draw upon their various capacities to actively contribute to the process. Furthermore, it is important to equally include different perspectives and knowledges to guarantee a co-creative collaboration.

The research team at WUR is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (fulltime, 2 years) working on these tasks. The successful candidate will conduct (qualitative) research in the aforementioned living labs. You will contribute to understanding how such transdisciplinary collaboration processes can be designed and facilitated in such a way that they allow participants to actively draw upon their various capacities to contribute to these collaboration processes.

In particular, you inquire into the subjectively experienced challenges of the participants, as well as the intrapersonal resources and competences they activate to face and overcome these challenges. The obtained results inform the development of training programs fostering intrapersonal sustainability competence/inner development goals for transdisciplinary collaboration.

Deadline : 26 August 2024

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(06) Postdoctoral Fellowship Position

Postdoc summary/title:– Postdoc position Impact of farm management on soil health at the European scale

Are you fascinated to work with data from thousands of agricultural fields from all over Europe? Do you want to contribute to finding solutions for how farm management can improve soil health, and understand better how soil health impacts crop yield stability? Are you not afraid of big data and next level statistics? Then Soil Geography and Landscape Group is looking for you!

Recently there has been an enormous increase in the availability of soil data. LUCAS Soil strategically monitors soil properties in three-year intervals at roughly 20’000 locations throughout Europe, and the EU is in the process of passing a directive on soil monitoring and resilience that would further strengthen soil monitoring in Europe. The on-going EU-wide soil monitoring has already greatly improved knowledge of spatial and temporal dynamics of soils, at the continental scale. However, since there is no information on land management in the survey, the data has so far not been able to answer urgent questions on how farm management affects soil properties, and vice versa, how soil health impacts crop yield.

Deadline : 19 August 2024

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About Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands – Official Website

Wageningen University & Research is a public university in Wageningen, Netherlands, specializing in technical and engineering subjects and an important center for life sciences and agricultural research. It is located in a region of the Netherlands known as the Food Valley.

WUR consists of Wageningen University and the former agricultural research institute of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. Wageningen University trains specialists (BSc, MSc and PhD) in life and social sciences and focuses its research on scientific, social and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. It is widely known for its agriculture, forestry, and environmental studies programs. The university has about 12,000 students from over 100 countries. It is also a member of the Euroleague for Life Sciences (ELLS) university network.

WUR has been placed among the top 150 universities in the world by four major ranking tables. Wageningen has been voted the number one university in the Netherlands for fifteen consecutive years. The university is listed number 59 in the world by the Times Higher Education Ranking and the world’s best in agriculture and forestry by the QS World University Rankings 2016–2020.Wageningen University is ranked number one in the fields of plant/animal science, environment/ecology, and agricultural sciences by U.S. News & World Report. The university is widely regarded as the world’s top agricultural research institution.

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