Medewerker Onderwijsondersteuning Bodemgeografie en Landschap (19 uur p/w)

Ben jij de proactieve en initiatiefrijke persoon die ervan houdt collega’s te ondersteunen, samen te brengen en kennisdeling te faciliteren? Help jij graag docenten de weg te leren kennen in administratieve processen rondom onderwijs en hen daarbij te ondersteunen, zodat ze zich zoveel mogelijk op de kwaliteit van hun onderwijs kunnen richten?

Wageningen Universiteit zoekt een onderwijsondersteuner bij de leerstoelgroep Bodemgeografie en Landschap (SGL). Een mooie baan in een enthousiaste en gedreven groep, waarin je direct bijdraagt aan een van de kerntaken van onze Universiteit.

Jouw taken en verantwoordelijkheden zijn:

• Ondersteuning bij de organisatie van vakken (betreffende roostering, zalen boeken, onderwijsmaterialen, studentinschrijvingen, groepsindelingen, etc.).
• Logistieke ondersteuning bij excursies en veldwerk.
• Onderhoud van de digitale leeromgeving.
• Beheer van gedeelde vak-emailboxen.
• Ondersteuning bij de organisatie van (her)tentamens.
• Assistentie bij de werving van student-assistenten.
• Ondersteuning van de onderwijscoördinator bij het organiseren van de onderwijsbijeenkomsten.

Je gaat samenwerken met de docenten en het ondersteunend personeel binnen onze groep, waarbij je standplaats Wageningen is.

Project & Technical Manager @ UNLOCK Modular Bioreactor Platform

Do you want to work at the forefront of microbial innovation? As a Project & Technical Manager at the UNLOCK Modular Bioreactor Platform you will enable high-quality research by combining scientific expertise with technical and project management skills.

You will support researchers from academia and industry in designing and executing experiments, ensuring they make the most of the platform’s advanced capabilities.

Are you energized by high-tech research environments, enjoy working with diverse stakeholders, and want to contribute to cutting-edge microbial innovation? Then this could be your next career move.

What will you do?
As Project & Technical Manager, you will support and facilitate research projects carried out by users of the UNLOCK Modular Bioreactor Platform, part of the UNLOCK large-scale open infrastructure for microbial research. You combine scientific expertise with technical coordination and user support to ensure high-quality research outcomes.

Your key responsibilities include:

• user support and proposal development: Facilitating user projects, advising on experimental design and feasibility, contributing to proposal writing, and supporting the acquisition of new users in close collaboration with the Platform Manager;
• coordination within UNLOCK: Aligning projects with other UNLOCK platforms, including FAIR Data and Biodiscovery, and co-developing analytical plans together with dedicated analytical staff;
• project execution and training: Acting as the primary point of contact throughout the project lifecycle, providing training on facilities, workflows, bioreactor modules, and FAIR data practices to enable independent operation;
• technical configuration and commissioning: Adapting and configuring bioreactor set-ups where needed, performing test experiments (e.g., for new sensors), and supporting the commissioning of new platform elements;
• method validation and platform development: Assisting in the validation of new analytical methods and contributing to the continuous development and optimization of the platform.

You will work under the supervision of Dr. David Strik, Platform Manager of the Modular bioreactor Platform. Here you are part of a team working with technicians, analysts and colleagues that work in UNLOCK and/or the Environmental Technology Group. CLICK HERE for a short video about UNLOCK or visit the UNLOCK website to check-out more details of our bioreactor modules and advanced analytical equipment.

You will work here
The laboratories of the Modular Bioreactor Platform are physically located at the chair-group Environmental Technology of Wageningen University & Research.

Education Support Officer Soil Geography and Landscape (19h p/w)

Are you the proactive and initiative-driven person who enjoys supporting colleagues, bringing people together, and facilitating knowledge sharing? Do you like helping lecturers navigate administrative processes related to education and supporting them so they can focus as much as possible on the quality of their teaching?

Wageningen University is looking for an Education Support Officer for the chair group of Soil Geography and Landscape (SGL). This is a great opportunity within an enthusiastic and dedicated team, where you will directly contribute to one of the core missions of our University.

Your tasks and responsibilities include:

• Supporting the organization of courses (with regard to scheduling, room bookings, teaching materials, student registrations, group allocations, etc.).
• Providing logistical support for excursions and fieldwork.
• Maintaining the digital learning environment.
• Managing shared course email inboxes.
• Supporting the organization of (resit) examinations.
• Assisting with the recruitment of student assistants.
• Supporting the education coordinator in the organization of education meetings.

You will work closely with lecturers and support staff within our group. Your workplace will be Wageningen.

Postdoc position: Strengthening One Health governance

Are you motivated to improve the way societies govern complex human, animal and environmental health challenges? Do you enjoy working across disciplines, engaging with diverse partners, and translating research into actionable strategies for policymakers? Are you excited by the prospect of performing a mixed-methods study on evaluating One Health surveillance systems, governance, and law in real-world settings?

The ‘One Health’ approach recognizes the interconnectedness of human, animal, and environmental health. Creating a supportive governance and regulatory environment—spanning institutional structures, policies, and legal frameworks—is essential for making this approach work in practice. This project aims to accelerate the regulatory, policy and societal adoption of One Health by refining assessment tools for policymakers and stipulating pathways for strengthening the surveillance systems, governance, policy, and legal conditions needed for the control of zoonotic and antimicrobial diseases in different country settings, with a specific focus on biocide impacts on antimicrobial resistance in One Health settings.

Tasks
Your project consists of two interrelated tasks. Firstly, in the context of the BIORESIST project, the postdoc will review biocide regulation for the prevention of zoonotic diseases (i.e., poultry diseases) in selected countries, analyse relevant policy frameworks, and carry out semi-structured interviews with stakeholders including in national reference laboratories, local farmers, veterinarians, and policymakers.

Secondly, in the context of the ERRAZE project, the postdoc will evaluate a WUR prototype One Health policy screening tool on the usability, scalability and adoptability of One Health policies by decision-makers, and expanding the regulatory dimension and utility of the tool at different governmental levels.

In the context of these two assignments, you will play a key role in advising national governments - some already pioneering with a National One Health Strategy on implementation and compliance conditions for One Health - at county-level. This includes mapping governance gaps, advising on policy and regulatory reforms, and co-creating with local partners a roadmap for improving zoonotic and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance systems, governance structures, funding streams, institutional coordination, and multistakeholder and farmer engagement and self-sustaining capacity for societal resilience.

This work requires both analytical and qualitative research skills, policy analysis experience, and experience working in different One Health settings abroad.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Contribute to the BIORESIST study by evaluating biocide regulations to prevent biocide resistance, zoonotic diseases and anti-microbial resistance.
• Contribute to the ERRAZE study by evaluating and reporting on the prototype One Health policy screening tool through testing and stakeholder engagement.
• Collaborate with, and formulate advice to international partner country governments, policymakers, and user organizations to co-develop actionable knowledge on conditions for the formation, adoption, implementation of One health policies and regulations as well as societal resilience and self-sustaining capacity within and across country contexts.
• Based on this work, prepare two papers for publication.

Your team

Health & Society (HSO) Group
The Health and Society group is embedded in widening circles of engagement with the major challenges facing human and planetary health today. HSO studies the domain of people, places, policies, or the planet more broadly, engaging with these domains with the aim to improve health and society. The chairgroup HSO focuses on the sociological study of public health, health promotion and health protection, in both resource poor and research rich contexts, with emphasis on (1) the social, natural and built environment, and (2) the role of actors and social institutions in advancing health and wellbeing.

You will work here
Because of the interdisciplinary character of the project, the Postdoc will be embedded within the Healthy and Society Group, and you will collaborate with the Law Group. You will have access to a vibrant interdisciplinary research community and opportunities for professional development through workshops, conferences, and collaborations. Due to the short-term nature of the contract, we will only consider applications of candidates that are already based in the Netherlands.

This position is part of the Academic Career Framework (ACF) at Wageningen University & Research.

Teaching and research postdoc in GISc on the development of movement models

Are you enthusiastic about the chance to combine research in Geographic Information Science (GISc) — particularly in movement analysis — with teaching and student supervision? Have you recently earned a PhD in GISc and feel inspired to share your expertise with the next generation while advancing your own research and lecturing/supervision skills? If so, we invite you to read on!

The Geo-information Science team within the Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS) is an interdisciplinary research group dedicated to developing integrated approaches to geospatial systems analysis. Our team pushes the boundaries of how spatial data can be used to tackle today’s pressing environmental and societal sustainability challenges. We envision a future where high-quality, reliable geospatial information seamlessly connects disciplines and scales, driving more responsible and impactful decision-making. We advance integrative, data-driven approaches to spatial analysis for the purpose of supporting decision-making for resource management. We use methodological innovation and participatory approaches to address complex challenges, including global change. Bridging interdisciplinary boundaries enables us to conduct impact-oriented research, by using geo-information as a tool for collaborations bringing together research, society, and policy actors and interests.

As we expand our teaching capacity, we offer an exciting opportunity to combine your passion for education with cutting-edge research: you will divide your time in equal shares between teaching GISc at bachelor and master levels, and advancing research about the integration of statistical movement models with predictive simulation models. Specifically, you will develop step selection functions based on a large tracking dataset of African herbivores to quantify the animals’ selection for thermal shelter versus resource availability. You will then develop a procedure to translate these quantified relationships to a predictive agent based model for the investigation of animal movement behaviour under future climate scenarios.

We also encourage you to integrate your research and derived examples in your teaching. By involving students in research projects and taking research examples to the classroom, we aim to strengthen the quality of our study programs. There is room for the development of your own research vision and the strengthening of your didactic skills, to build a strong academic CV.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Conduct research on the integration of step selection functions with agent based models.
• Publish your findings in peer-reviewed scientific journals and present your results at conferences.
• Lecture on Geo-information Science in BSc and MSc courses offered by the GRS chair group.
• Guide students through practical exercises that apply GIS concepts using various open- and closed-source software solutions.
• Introduce students to the fundamentals of spatiotemporal data science and machine learning using scripting languages.
• Supervise BSc and MSc thesis students conducting research in Geo-information Science.

You will work here
The research is embedded within the Laboratory of Geo-Information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS), which is led by Prof. Kirsten de Beurs and Prof. Sytze de Bruin