You are open minded, enthusiastic and enjoy working in a multidisciplinary academic environment.
You also possess: - a PhD and at least three additional years of experience in human skeletal muscle physiology;
- proven expertise in mechanistic experimental human (molecular) physiology;
- familiarity with biomolecular methodology;
- proven expertise in supervising PhD students as well as MSc and BSc students;
- proven acquisition skills;
- relevant and well evaluated teaching experience;
- strong command of Dutch and English language (at least C1), both verbally and in writing.
You will work here Your position is within the chair group
Human and Animal Physiology.
Human and Animal Physiology (HAP) strives to conduct cutting-edge physiological and molecular physiological experimental research focused on increasing the fundamental and mechanistic understanding of energy and substrate metabolism and mitochondria in health and disease in humans and animals, with the ultimate goal to improve human health and quality of life. Our research-driven teaching spans undergraduate to the postgraduate levels, providing mammalian physiology and biomolecular education across a wide range of academic disciplines, and aims to deliver highly trained academic professionals ready to address societal health issues, primarily via research.
HAP’s specific research aims are i) to obtain new mechanistic insights in how metabolism influences health of humans and animals, including improved translational physiological understanding of metabolism, and ii) to significantly contribute to preventive human metabolic health, with emphasis on the prevention and treatment of mitochondrial, metabolic, lifestyle and age-related disease of humans. We obtain our results by performing experimental research in humans, model animals (including invertebrates), organs/tissues, and cells. We do this using state-of-the-art physiological, functional, computational, biomolecular and related bioanalysis tools in an integrated manner. While our experimental cell and animal work is integrative over (metabolic) organs, tissues and cell types, our experimental human interventions focus on skeletal muscle taking whole body responses into account. In addition, we solidly train BSc, MSc and PhD students in physiology, biomolecular physiology, morpho-functional physiology and in experimental research.
HAP, headed by Prof. Dr. Jaap Keijer, is one of the 92 chair groups of Wageningen University (WU), the basic organizational units at the university. Together with 11 other chair groups, HAP is part of the Animal Science Group (ASG). HAP is affiliated with two graduate schools, VLAG (Biobased, Biomolecular, Chemical, Food and Nutrition Sciences) and WIAS (Animal Sciences), with most PhD students in VLAG. HAP is a viable chair group with one full professor (chair), 13 academic members of staff with a different emphasis on research, teaching and academic services, all with a PhD. In addition, HAP employs 7 high level technicians including a research physician-assistant, two experienced secretaries, and 26 PhD students.