Chemical analyst in our contaminants team

As a chemical analyst in our contaminants team, you are responsible for detecting the presence of contaminants in food and the environment. You will work with LC-(HR)MS and GC-(HR)MS equipment in our lab in Wageningen and generate data that contribute to food safety in the food chain and a healthy living environment.

What will you do?
As a chemical analyst, you will perform analyses using standardized protocols. You will also contribute to optimizing and validating analytical methods. The focus is on instrumental analyses using state-of-the-art measurement systems in the field of LC- and GC-MS/MS and HRMS. The analysis and research results will be reported to the project leader. You will be part of an analysis team responsible for the efficient execution and reporting of analyses. In this way, your team contributes to food safety in the food chain and a healthy living environment.

Your tasks and responsibilities as a chemical analyst include:

• Performing LC- and GC-MS/MS and HRMS analyses in various projects;
• Data analysis and reporting to the project leader;
• Method development, improvement, and validation;
• Preparing standard operating procedures (SOPs).

You will collaborate with several colleagues within one of the focus areas of the contaminants team, which is part of a larger team of 21 colleagues based in Wageningen.

Project Technician in Food Chemistry

As a project technician (max 2 years) you will assist sample handling and analysis at the Laboratory of Food Chemistry within a collaborative project between our group, Wageningen Research BU Greenhouse Horticulture, and Kraft Heinz. The overall research project studies pectin formation and development in tomatoes, and involves growing various tomato cultivars, analyzing their pectin characteristics, and exploring practical applications in tomato-based products. The goal is to gain a deeper understanding of pectin in tomatoes and how this might positively impact KraftHeinz tomato product portfolio.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• handling and fractionation of tomato samples and tomato-based products;
• subject all samples/fractions to various screening analytical protocols, such as carbohydrate content and composition, degree of methylation, and high performance size-exclusion chromatography;
• in selected samples, monitor endogenous enzyme activity in high-throughput assays;
• work together with the PhD-candidate (same project) at the Laboratory of Food Chemistry to gain a deeper understanding of pectin in tomatoes;
• excellent communication with other project partners (Wageningen Research BU Greenhouse Horticulture, and Kraft Heinz).

PhD in pectin formation and development in tomatoes

You will do your PhD research at the Laboratory of Food Chemistry, in context of a collaborative project of our group with Wageningen Research BU Greenhouse Horticulture, and Kraft Heinz. The overall research project studies pectin formation and development in tomatoes with the aim to gain a deeper understanding of pectin in tomatoes and how this might positively impact Kraft Heinz tomato product portfolio. The project involves growing various tomato cultivars, analyzing their pectin characteristics, and exploring practical applications in tomato-based products.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• gain a deeper understanding of pectin structures in tomatoes and related endogenous enzymes, resulting in a PhD-thesis;
• set-up a (semi-) high throughput chromatographic method to map pectin structures;
• Work together with the project-technician (same project) at the Laboratory of Food Chemistry;
• supervise students;
• excellent communication with other project partners (Wageningen Research BU Greenhouse Horticulture, and Kraft Heinz).

You will work here
The project is embedded within the chair of Food Chemistry which is led by Prof.dr.ir. Jean-Paul Vincken, and is part of the Biomass & Enzymes theme of dr.ir. Mirjam Kabel.

Chemical analyst in the contaminants team

As a chemical analyst in our contaminants team, you are responsible for determining the presence of contaminants in food and our environment. You will use LC-MS and GC-(HR)MS equipment in our laboratory in Wageningen and provide data that contributes to food safety in the food chain and a healthy living environment.

What will you do?
As a chemical analyst, you will perform analyses using standardized protocols. You will also contribute to the optimization and validation of analytical methods. The focus is on instrumental analysis using state-of-the-art measurement systems in the field of LC-MS/MS and GC-(HR)MS. The analysis and research results are reported to the project leader. As an analyst, you will work in an analysis team responsible for efficiently performing and reporting analyses. In doing so, you and your team contribute to food safety in the food chain and a healthy living environment.

Your tasks and responsibilities as a chemical analyst include:

• performing LC-MS/MS and GC-(HR)MS analyses for various projects;
• data analysis and reporting to the project leader;
• method development/improvement and validation;
• drafting standard operating procedures (SOPs).

You will collaborate with several colleagues within one of the focus areas of the contaminants team, which is part of a larger group of 21 colleagues based in Wageningen.

Management and Office Assistent

As an Education support team, we support the more than 800 students in our Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Animal Sciences. As a Management/Office assistant, you manage the general e-mail box and support the team consisting of one Programme Director and five Study Advisors in their tasks. You will also actively contribute to making processes run as smoothly as possible for everyone involved, such as lecturers, prospective students and other WUR colleagues.

Your work as a Management/Office assistant is:

• Supporting educational processes. You will support various educational tasks, such as providing administrative support for the skills track in the bachelor's programme, preparing diploma ceremonies and taking minutes at educational consultations;
• Calendar management. You partly manage the agendas of the programme director and study advisors, both via Outlook and the online appointment system for students;
• Taking minutes at meetings. You prepare meetings (such as the Programme Committee) and make clear and structured minutes;
• First point of contact for staff and students. You answer questions by phone or e-mail and offer support with practical matters such as leave, absenteeism, orders, declarations and other arrangements;
• Room reservations and organization of meetings. You book teaching and meeting rooms and help organize graduation ceremonies and meetings, for example.

Working as a management/office assistant at Wageningen University & Research
Your new colleagues welcome you to Wageningen University & Research (WUR). The collaboration with colleagues in an informal environment is greatly appreciated by management/office assistants within WUR. This, in combination with a lot of self-direction, independence and the possibility of hybrid working, means that the work-life balance can also count on a lot of appreciation.

Add to that a challenging international environment where, on our beautiful green campus, we work daily on themes with a major social impact.

Education
Part of Education & Student Affairs is the "Education" section, consisting of 20 programme directors and their education teams (study advisors, spokespersons and secretariats). Within the Animal Sciences Educational team, the programme director is your manager.