Much of CropXR’s exciting and important work is carried out by our founding institutions and private partners at various locations in the Netherlands. CropXR’s activities are managed and facilitated from a central support office in the city of Utrecht.

At present, the career opportunity below is open for application at CropXR.

Job openings

PhD Candidate Plant Root Development

This four-year PhD position is dedicated to the subproject “The role of root plasticity in resilience”. It will run under supervision of Prof Christa Testerink in Wageningen. You will be working in a team together with other experimental and computational plant scientists. The focus of this research is on key genes and molecular pathways and developmental plasticity of Arabidopsis roots under drought stress. Using novel mathematical modelling, network inference approaches and existing knowledge we will identify networks downstream of drought perception and establish how these
impinge on and are integrated with basal root development.

Location: Wageningen (Netherlands)
Employer: Wageningen University & Research (WUR)
Contract type: Working hours can be discussed for optimal work-life balance
Application Deadline: before 19 November, 2024