Data Scientist Assistant Professor

Logo of EURAXESS Job offer - JOB - Netherlands - Wageningen University and Research Centre via AcademicTransfer - Posted on: 15 July 2026 Page contents 15 Jul 2026 Wageningen University & Research Research Field Biological sciences » Nutritional sciences Computer science » Informatics Researcher Profile Leading Researcher (R4) Established Researcher (R3) Application Deadline 24 Aug :59 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Permanent Job Status Not Applicable Hours Per Week 38.0 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description Are you an ambitious data scientist eager to build a career in academia? Are you passionate about advancing human nutrition and health through innovative data-driven research? We are looking for an Assistant Professor to strengthen our team at the exciting intersection of data science, nutrition, and health. Could you be our new colleague? What are you going to do? In this role, you will contribute to cutting-edge research and education at the forefront of nutrition and health. The Division of Human Nutrition and Health offers access to a unique collection of large-scale, deeply phenotyped and genotyped human dietary intervention and cohort studies. You will work with a rich variety of data sources, including dietary and lifestyle information, multi-omics data, functional measurements, sensor data, and clinical data. By integrating these complex datasets, you will investigate their relationships with both short- and long-term health outcomes. Using advanced data science approaches, including state-of-the-art AI methods, such as machine learning and knowledge-based methods, you will tackle high-dimensional biological data to uncover new insights into the connections between nutrition and health. In addition to your research activ...