PhD Student in Human Biology

PhD student m/f Human Biology/NUTRIM Universiteit Maastricht NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism Maastricht, 6200 MD (Limburg), 38 hours per week

Job description
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Focus will be on the underlying mechanisms in experimental human studies as well as the long term dietary intervention studies. Next to the physiological measurements also molecular techniques will be applied on tissue and blood samples to study the underlying molecular mechanisms.

Requirements
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Required education/skills:University Graduate Master degree in Medicine, Nutrition, Biology or Life Sciences. Experience with human intervention studies is recommended.
Job type: Research / Advising
Workfield(s):
- Teaching & Research(Scientific discipline: Health)

Organization
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Universiteit Maastricht

NUTRIM School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism Universiteit Maastricht (UM) the youngest university in the Netherlands, is renowned for its unique, innovative, problem-based learning system, which is characterized by a small-scale and student-oriented approach. Research at UM is characterized by a multidisciplinary and thematic approach, and is concentrated in research institutes and schools. Currently UM has around 11500 students and 3,000 employees. Reflecting the universitys strong
international profile, a fair amount of both students and staff are from abroad. The university hosts 6 faculties: Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Faculty of law, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Faculty of Psychology.

NUTRIM is the School for Nutrition, Toxicology and Metabolism of the Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences of Maastricht University (UM) in co-operation with the University Hospital Maastricht (azM). Within NUTRIM 15 biomedical, clinical, and behavioural-science departments co-operate in the implementation of scientific research projects in the fields of nutrition and toxicology and in the education of PhD-students. NUTRIM participates in the Graduate School VLAG (Food Technology, Agrobiotechnology, Nutrition and Health Sciences), accredited by the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW). NUTRIM also participates in the Top Institute Food & Nutrition (TIFN), one of five Leading Technological Institutes established on the initiative of and with financial support from the Dutch Government. TIFN is an alliance of research and food industry partners to carry out strategic and non-competitive fundamental research regarding the mechanisms involved
in food functionality.

Conditions of employment
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Maximum salary amount in Euro's a month 2502 Employment basis: Temporary for pecified period Duration of the contract: 48 months
Maximum hours per week: 38

Additional conditions of employment:
After each year an evaluation takes place. Your salary would be ? 1.956,- gross per month in the first year up to ? 2.502,- gross per month in the fourth year according to the PhD-student salary.

Additional Information
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Additional information about the vacancy can be obtained from:

Prof. Dr. W.H.M. Saris, Human Biology
Telephone number: 31 043-3881308/ 3
E-mail address: w.saris@HB.unimaas.nl
Or additional information can be obtained through one of the following
links:

- About the department (http://www.nutrim.unimaas.nl)

Application
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You can apply for this job before 29-10-2007 (dd-mm-yyyy) by sending your application to:

Universiteit Maastricht
FHML, afd PZ
P.O.Box 616
6200 MD Maastricht
The Netherlands
E-mail: pzfdgw@facburfdgw.unimaas.nl
subject=ApplicationAT2007.203.PhD%20student%20m/f%20HumanBiology/NUTRIM>

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