Professor in blootstellingswetenschappen en toxicologie

Biological sciences » Laboratory animal science

Biological sciences » Other

Engineering » Biomedical engineering

Engineering » Chemical engineering

Medical sciences » Medicine

Organisation/Company KU LEUVEN

Research Field Biological sciences » Biology Biological sciences » Laboratory animal science Biological sciences » Other Engineering » Biomedical engineering Engineering » Chemical engineering Medical sciences » Medicine Researcher Profile Leading Researcher (R4) Established Researcher (R3) Country Belgium Final date to receive applications 16 Mar 2026 - 23:59 (UTC) Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Full-time Offer Starting Date 1 Sep 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?

Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number ZAP
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

It is part of the assignment of the appointed candidate to develop, within the domain exposure sciences and 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 [Environment & Health, Occupational and Environmental Hygiene and BREATHE].

The candidate:

• Is an excellent, internationally oriented researcher and develops a research program at the forefront in the field of exposure sciences and toxicology in preventive health, including lab based experimental work, epidemiological observational and interventional studies. The candidate has relevant experience, with research methods to investigate the health outcomes of chemical pollutants in the general environment and the workplace. These methods can include in vitro, in vivo and in silico techniques, biomarker discovery, NAM’s (new approach methodologies) to study (immune) toxicological mechanisms of lung or systemic diseases (such as occupational asthma, dust lung, auto-immune diseases, cancer, etc).
• Strengthens existing research lines and brings complementary and/or additionally new expertise by working closely with the members of the research unit.
• Publishes at the highest scientific level journals in the field of toxicology, environmental sciences, lung research, immunology: such as Environment International, Environmental Health Perspectives, Particle and Fiber Toxicology, Archives of Toxicology, European Respiratory Journal, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, etc.
• Develops an own research group.
• Supervises master students, PhD students and postdocs at a high international level.
• Aims to acquire competitive research funding from national and/or international agencies and submits effective research project proposals for this purpose.
• Establishes both within KU Leuven, national and international partnerships in the context of the research programme.
• Strives for excellence in research and provides a contribution to the international research reputation of the unit Environment and Health, Department of Public Health and Primary Care and KU Leuven.
• Has a pronounced interest in fundamental research, but also pays attention to the valorization and applications of the research, e.g. by networking with policymakers, employees and employers.
• 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 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.

The assignment of the candidate to be appointed also includes a teaching assignment in the master of biomedical sciences, in the toxicology, exposure and risk assessment to pollutants. And ad hoc lessons in the city…