06 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Ghent University, Belgium

Polymeric materials – allowing to realize both commodity and high-tech applications – are widely used in many important industrial sectors, such as construction, information technology and health care, as well as in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. Designing polymer production processes is not only needed to expand these industries’ application ranges but also to avoid the formation of off-spec material and to make sure that energy resources are optimally used.

The selected candidate will investigate the complex molecular mechanisms controlling intestinal homeostasis and pathology, using genetically modified mice. The research is part of the FWO-EOS HOMISTASIS project ‘Host-microbe interaction in intestinal homeostasis: unravelling the mechanisms involved in the onset of multiple inflammation-related diseases’. HOMISTASIS brings together scientists with complementary expertise in the fields of cell signaling, inflammation and immunity, metabolism, cancer, microbiology and microbiome research.

Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 8,000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities. With its 11 faculties and more than 80 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.

You assist various visiting researchers in the theory of fuzzy sets. The research topics are all related and are situated in the theory of relations and the theory of aggregation. Your specific taks include:

• Assist Chinese (CSC), Pakistani (HEC) and Algerian visiting PhD students.
• Weekly meetings for practical support (technical tools such as LaTeX, overleaf and beamer; biblio; consulting of scientific repositories) and substantive first-line guidance.  
• Assist in the redaction of scientific manuscripts (spelling, grammar, content structure).

• At least 70% of your assignment will be spent on academic research.
• Your research should fit with the theme Higher Education Governance, the research focus of the Centre for Higher Education Governance Ghent (CHEGG). The centre is part of the department of Sociology, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences. We work on two subthemes: “The dynamics of markets, governments and networks in higher education” and “Higher education institutions as strategic organisations”. Recently, we also started to explore the subtheme of “Higher education as a field of study”.
• Apart from academic research, you will be invited to contribute to commissioned research and teaching (in Dutch and/or English).

Ghent University is a world of its own. Employing more than 8,000 people, it is actively involved in education and research, management and administration, as well as technical and social service provision on a daily basis. It is one of the largest, most exciting employers in the area and offers great career opportunities. With its 11 faculties and more than 80 departments offering state-of-the-art study programmes grounded in research in a wide range of academic fields, Ghent University is a logical choice for its staff and students.