Academic ConnectMicroscopy Researcher
article_published_on_labelJune 3, 2025
Location Wageningen
End date Mon 7 July 2025
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Your job
For those who see microscopy as more than just looking — it’s about knowing, discovering, and contributing to food safety.
Are you an analytically skilled biologist with a passion for microscopic research and visual detection techniques? Are you fluent in Dutch? Would you like to apply your expertise to help ensure the safety of our food and feed chains? Then we are looking for you for the position of Microscopy Researcher.
What will you be doing?
As a Microscopy Researcher at Wageningen Food Safety Research (WFSR), you will lead a variety of research projects focused on microscopy and visual detection. Together with a team of four analysts, you will work on challenges such as identifying plant components, detecting insect residues, and spotting packaging materials in animal feed. It is also important that, together with the analysts, you maintain and advance the quality and standards of microscopy as a discipline.
Your responsibilities will include:
coordinating and carrying out research projects within the field of microscopy;
writing research reports and scientific publications;
designing, conducting, and reporting on validation studies;
monitoring and applying food and feed safety legislation and regulations;
developing new visual analysis techniques.
Depending on your experience, identifying opportunities for collaboration both within and outside WFSR may also be part of your role. This way, you can contribute to advancing the field of visual detection techniques.
Your qualities
You have:
an academic degree in biology or plant biology;
demonstrable experience with visual and microscopic research techniques;
an interest in food and feed safety and the relevant legislation;
experience in scientific writing.
You are:
accurate, quality-driven, and deadline-oriented;
a strong communicator in both Dutch and English;
a natural team player with the ambition to further develop the field of visual techniques.
In our international working environment there is an increasing amount of communication in English. For this position it is about language level B2.
WUR welcomes applications from international candidates. However, for applicants for this specific position from outside the EU/EFTA zone, immigration restrictions may apply based on Dutch and EU immigration laws. Such candidates may be eligible for an “orientation year” in the Netherlands or a visa as a “knowledge migrant”.