Assistant / Associate Professor: Fish health and immunology

at  Wageningen University Research

The Aquaculture and Fisheries group (AFI) at Wageningen University & Research is looking for a new staff member to help prevent disease, and maintain animal health in aquaculture. If you are an immunologist specialized in aquatic animals and you take sustainable aquaculture serious, then you are the one we would like to talk to.
We are convinced that it is vital to safeguard health of farmed aquatic organisms, contributing to a One Health approach and a sustainable way forward for aquaculture. We aim to do so by prevention, building on both innate and adaptive immune responses. As read-outs we measure systemic as well as mucosal health and local immune responses, to help the development of functional feeds, or vaccines.
As assistant or associate professor in Fish Health and Immunology you are expected to build your own research group in collaboration with your colleagues.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

• Developing a scientifically-challenging and financially-sound research line in fish health with strong foundations in both, molecular and cellular immunology;
• Guiding the groups’ technicians with advanced molecular, cellular and/or (immuno) histochemical expertise;
• Coordinating and teaching the subject of fish health and immunology at BSc, MSc and PhD level;
• Sharing the responsibility for managing the (chair) group of Aquaculture and Fisheries;
• Actively sharing the ambition of W-ARE, WUR’s initiative to work on sustainable aquaculture.

• Developing a scientifically-challenging and financially-sound research line in fish health with strong foundations in both, molecular and cellular immunology;
• Guiding the groups’ technicians with advanced molecular, cellular and/or (immuno) histochemical expertise;
• Coordinating and teaching the subject of fish health and immunology at BSc, MSc and PhD level;
• Sharing the responsibility for managing the (chair) group of Aquaculture and Fisheries;
• Actively sharing the ambition of W-ARE, WUR’s initiative to work on sustainable aquaculture