Full Professor of Animal Physiology (0.8 - 1.0 FTE)

• Employment: 0.8 - 1.0 FTE
• Gross monthly salary: € 5,864 - € 8,539
• Faculty of Science
• Required background: PhD
• Application deadline: 31 May 2022

A world from which we demand more and more requires people who can make a contribution. Critical thinkers who want to commit themselves to preserving biodiversity and ensuring food security by providing a better understanding of the stress and adaptation responses of animals to human impact. As a full professor, your vision and leadership will further shape the animal physiology field in research and teaching at Radboud University. Join a nationally and internationally unique institute where research spans nearly all levels of biological organisation.

Animal physiology at the Radboud Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES) is a strongly integrative discipline which contributes to a fundamental understanding of animal life from the level of the molecule to that of the ecosystem. Animal physiology is part of a challenging and broad educational curriculum, including Physiology and Adaptation and Adaptive Organisms as learning trajectories in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in Biology, respectively.

As a Full Professor you will complement, strengthen and expand the research and education of the Ecology and Physiology cluster and RIBES. Professors at RIBES typically have a 40%/40%/20% (research/teaching/management) position.

Major challenges of our time are preserving biodiversity and ensuring food security. It is therefore of utmost importance to fundamentally understand the stress and adaptation responses of animals to human pressures, including pollution and climate change. The research to be conducted by you and your team will focus on physiological mechanisms, their function in different species and importance in changing environments. Together, you and your team members will be expected to apply for research grants and establish internationally competitive research lines in animal physiology. You will be encouraged to firmly link the research programme with research lines of colleagues from RIBES and Radboud University, as well as with those of other outstanding groups in and outside of the Netherlands.

Cross-disciplinarity of expertise in courses is attractive for students and mutually stimulating for staff. Exciting opportunities exist to realise new and up-to-date course modules that address topics such as climate change and adaptation capacity and the consequences thereof for food production, species distribution and ecosystem functioning. By doing so, the educational activities create their own niche in biosciences, and reinforces the Physiology and Adaptation and Adaptive Organisms learning trajectories. Typically, you will coordinate one BSc and one MSc course, supervise students during their BSc and MSc internship and participate in courses on animal evolution, physiology, endocrinology and adaptation.

Together with your team, you will manage and be responsible for a sizeable group of academic and non-academic staff, foster diversity and equity, and participate in Ecology and Physiology, RIBES and faculty leadership. You are supportive of the fact that an effective organisation of research and teaching is pivotal for a university and that important management roles are part of a full professor's career, possibly including those of director of the Educational Institute of Biosciences and research director of RIBES in due course.

Part of RIBES' mission is to explore the societal impact of its research. Key stakeholders include nature conservation NGOs (including citizen science groups), husbandry-related industry, animal welfare NGOs, policy makers and the general public. By strategically engaging with these stakeholders, you and your team will be able to contribute to societal discussions, while at the same time creating new funding opportunities.

Profile

• You have a background and research vision that aligns with RIBES mission and the molecule-to-ecosystem research motto. 
• You have a strong animal-physiological research profile with a state-of-the-art molecular and cellular toolbox (incl. advanced imaging and new '-omics' tools) directly relevant to animal physiological research.
• You have a proven track record of obtaining diverse funding from national and international funding instruments.
• You will show leadership in exploring possibilities for collaboration and establishing collaborative networks both within RIBES and RU and with other national and international institutes.
• You have excellent teaching abilities and a solid teaching strategy in animal physiology, including both a short-term and long-term vision on curriculum development and teaching practice.
• You know how to reach out to the general public, industry and the teaching community.
• You are able and willing to take up senior management roles within research and education.

We are

The Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES) aims to perform world-leading research in order to understand the response of the natural environment to human impact. RIBES is nationally and internationally unique as its research encompasses three major groups of organisms (microorganisms, plants and animals) and spans nearly all levels of biological organisation. The institute is organised in three clusters: Ecology and Physiology, Environmental Science, and Microbiology, and works on the overarching research mission 'Towards Healthy Ecosystems', with four focus areas: I. Macronutrients and chemicals of emerging concern, II. Physical conditions: understanding responses and adaptation mechanism to stressors, III. Biodiversity decline and recovery of ecological communities, and IV. Mitigation of greenhouse gases. 

The current Animal Physiology staff focuses on fish physiology, maintaining a high-end aquarium facility, including advanced behavioural and physiological analyses. The group plays a key role in the Radboud University-Radboudumc Zebrafish Platform . Within RIBES, the Animal Physiology group collaborates successfully with the Animal Ecology and Microbiology groups. There is ample opportunity for further scientific and methodological collaboration within RIBES, such as with the Environmental Science cluster (e.g. environmental footprints of animal husbandry), the Aquatic Ecology group (effects of animal physiology and behaviour on greenhouse gas emissions) and the Plant Systems Physiology group (common physiological stress responses across kingdoms), as well as within Radboud University (Donders Institute and RIMLS) and with the Radboud university medical center.

Radboud University
We want to get the best out of science, others and ourselves. Why? Because this is what the world around us desperately needs. Leading research and education make an indispensable contribution to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. This is what unites the more than 24,000 students and 5,600 employees at Radboud University. And this requires even more talent, collaboration and lifelong learning. You have a part to play!

We offer

• Employment for 0.8 - 1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €5,864 and a maximum of €8,539 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale H2 ).
• An appointment as an Associate Professor with the potential to grow into the role of Full Professor is also possible. An Associate Professor will be employed as an Associate Professor level 2 (salary scale 13, maximum gross monthly salary of €6,444) or Associate Professor level 1 (salary scale 14, maximum gross monthly salary of €7,079), depending on your scientific track record and experience.
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• It concerns a permanent employment.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services . Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment  and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 29 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Additional employment conditions
Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions . You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.
Would you like more information?

For questions about the position, please contact Prof. Mike Jetten, Full professor in Microbiology, chair of the appointment advisory committee at +31 24 365 29 40 or [email protected] . Alternatively, you can contact Prof. Mark Huijbregts, Institute Director at +31 24 365 28 35 or [email protected]  

Practical information and applications
You can apply until 31 May 2022, exclusively using the button below. Kindly address your application to Prof. Mike Jetten. Please fill in the application form and attach the following documents:

• A letter of motivation.
• Your CV.
• A research statement, including a description of how your research will align with the research programme of the cluster and institute.
• A teaching statement, including your long-term vision on teaching and education innovation (at most 2 pages).
• A leadership statement on supervision, management and community efforts (e.g. diversity programmes; at most 2 pages).

The first round of interviews will take place on 22, 23 and 24 June. The second round of interviews will take place early/mid July.
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