The Department of Public Health and Primary Care within the Biomedical Sciences Group of KU Leuven, invites scholars to apply for a full‐time research professorship in occupational and environmental toxicology. This position is funded by the Special Research Fund (BOFZAP), established by the Flemish Government.
We are looking for motivated and internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competence in the field of toxicology and health. The appointment is expected to start on September 1, 2025. Applications will be evaluated in parallel and independently by 1) the KU Leuven Research Council in a competitive process across academic domains and 2) the faculty advisory committee. During the first 10 years, the teaching obligations as a research professor will be limited. Afterwards, the position will be transformed into a regular professorship.
Within the Biomedical Sciences Group at KU Leuven, the Department of Public Health and Primary Care conducts research in societal aspects of healthcare. Its members include experts in disease prevention, health protection, health promotion, quality assurance, health care policy, bioethics, health law, health economics, health communication, biostatistics, epidemiology, geriatrics and gerontology, nursing and midwifery, emergency medicine and general practice medicine.
Members of the Department conduct interdisciplinary research with a major impact at a national and international level. They also provide high-quality education in various educational areas. In addition, they provide healthcare professionals and institutions with insights, concepts and techniques that enable them to respond optimally to the needs and expectations of the patient and society in the area of healthcare. Moreover, they seek to improve collaboration with clinical medicine and research, and they are closely involved in national and international partnerships. The Department of Public Health and Primary Care offers a dynamic research context that stimulates interdisciplinary collaboration.
It is part of the assignment of the appointed candidate to develop, within the domain of environmental and occupational toxicology an international, competitive research program, to pursue excellent scientific results at an international level and to support and promote national and international research partnerships. The candidate must meet a strong research profile or have the potential to do so. In addition, the candidate is expected to have a multidisciplinary attitude and a willingness to cooperate intensively with other researchers and research units at KU Leuven, such as Environment & Health, Occupational and Environmental Hygiene, BREATHE,...
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Although the position regards a research professorship at the start of employment, the candidate is expected to gradually contribute to state of the art teaching.
The assignment of the candidate to be appointed also includes a teaching assignment in the master of biomedical sciences (toxicology, exposure and risk assessment to pollutants), and ad hoc lessons in the city lab course and the continuous master Global Health. The candidate makes use of the opportunities offered by KU Leuven to further professionalize teaching.
The candidate also contributes to the pedagogic project of the faculty/university. He/she develops teaching in accordance with KU Leuven’s vision on activating and research‐based education and makes use of the possibilities for the educational professionalization offered by the faculty and the university.
Scientific, societal and internal services (administrative and/or institutional) are also part of the assignment.
full application and selection procedure Research Professorships (BOFZAP)
More information on the content of the job can be obtained from the academic contact person prof. dr. Jeroen Vanoirbeek, tel +32 16 330196, e-mail: jeroen.vanoirbeek@kuleuven.be.
More information on the guidelines, regulations and application file is available from Ms. Kristin Vermeylen (kristin.vermeylen@kuleuven.be , tel. +32 16 32 09 07) or Ms. Martine van Nierop (martine.vannierop@kuleuven.be , tel. +32 16 32 76 98).
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