Assistant​/associate Professor In Food And Nutritional Sciences

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Job Category: Faculty

Employment Type: Regular

Job Profile: Associate Professor

Job Summary:
The Wisconsin Research, Innovation and Scholarly Excellence (RISE) Initiative is designed to help address significant, complex challenges of particular importance to Wisconsin and the world, through accelerated and strategic faculty hiring, research infrastructure enhancement, interdisciplinary collaboration and increased student and educational opportunities. Wisconsin RISE Initiatives allow UW-Madison to attract top scholars at all stages of their careers to bring interdisciplinary perspectives to solving deeply complex problems.

RISE-THRIVE, which stands for Transforming Healthspan through Research, Inno Vation, and Education, is set to harness and grow the university's reputation as a global powerhouse in interdisciplinary health research - translating both medical discoveries and innovative social science approaches into tangibly healthier lives for Wisconsinites and people and communities around the world. RISE-EARTH, which stands for Environment:
Adaptation, Resilience, Technology, and Humanity, will strengthen the university's ability to address challenges and opportunities related to the environment, translating discoveries into tangible benefits in Wisconsin and beyond.

RISE-THRIVE will focus on strengthening UW-Madison's investments and leadership in two distinct yet complementary areas: the science of immunology and the study of the healthspan, or the number of years a person is not only alive but healthy. Improving human health and wellness is a critically important global challenge. Milk, and dairy products like cheese, contain many uniquely designed components or metabolites that are generated through fermentation, processing, and digestion processes that can improve human health;

these functions warrant further exploration and discovery. RISE-EARTH includes a focus on building resilient rural communities that heavily depend on dairy processing for their economic sustainability. In Wisconsin, the dairy sector has an economic impact of over $50B. There are over 400 dairy plants or whey processing firms in Wisconsin and 61 out of our 71 counties have at least one of these facilities.

Creating innovative consumer dairy products and improving sustainability are key challenges for this dairy sector and relevant themes for this position.

As part of the RISE initiative, the Department of Food and Nutritional Science (FSN) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or Associate Professor (with tenure) position with expertise in the processing, or characterization of functional components in milk or dairy foods like cheese or approaches to improve the environmental or economic sustainability of dairy processing.

The vision for this position is to act in concert with complementary programs and researchers within the department, the Dairy Innovation Hub (see (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below).), CALS and campus communities. Areas of focus could include, but are not limited to, the identification and characterization of functional dairy components, identification and characterization of bioactive metabolites that are generated through fermentation, processing and digestion processes of cheese and fermented dairy products, the discovery and creation of products containing dairy ingredients targeted towards personalized nutrition applications;

ultimately these efforts would lead to impactful dairy product discoveries, uses, and economic impacts. Research that provides value to consumer health and dairy product development, or economical and environmental sustainability, are also of great interest.

The ideal candidate will produce high-impact, relevant research that can be meaningfully applied to the dairy industry and complement existing departmental strengths in food and nutritional sciences. We value scholars who demonstrate a strong commitment to public engagement and real-world impact. We seek a faculty member who will combine rigorous research with a deep interest in outreach that engages communities, stakeholder, industries, and institutions.

This position offers an outstanding opportunity to participate in interdisciplinary research, influence dairy food manufacturing, and teach in a world-class academic setting.

Key

Job Responsibilities:

• Develop a nationally competitive, extramurally funded research program focused on functional dairy products with the goal of increasing the consumption, sustainability, nutritional value, and health impact of dairy products and dairy-derived components in concert with RISE-THRIVE and EARTH initiatives. This work will address the growing need to generate compelling evidence of dairy's health benefits within an increasingly competitive landscape of alternative ingredients,…