DTU Tenure Track Researcher in Food Allergy and Immunology - DTU Food

If you have knowledge within the area of allergy and immunology as well as experience working with mechanistic studies, and if you are establishing your career as scientist and are looking for an opportunity to put your skills into practice, you have it right here.
Do you want to contribute to the development of new solutions for prevention and treatment of food allergy?

If you have knowledge within the area of allergy and immunology as well as experience working with mechanistic studies, and if you are establishing your career as scientist and are looking for an opportunity to put your skills into practice, you have it right here. The Research Group for Food Allergy at DTU Food is looking to recruit a talented and highly motivated tenure track researcher with a high potential for creative and cutting-edge research.

As our new colleague in the Research Group for Food Allergy at DTU Food, you will be part of a social, dynamic and highly ambitious research and innovation environment, with many national and international collaborators from both academia and industries. We offer a vibrant, collegial, and team-oriented research environment with an international atmosphere encouraging creativity and ambitious research.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your overall responsibility will be to strengthen the group’s competences in mechanistic studies within food allergy prevention, management and treatment. In your new position you will be involved in research, publication, and scientific dissemination as well as in teaching and advisory work. You will take part in a research and innovation project, concerning development of new and improved solutions for food allergy prevention and treatment. You will work with nearby colleagues, and with both academic and industrial partners in Denmark as well as abroad.

Your primary tasks will focus on:

• Developing, optimising and implementing methodology for mode-of-action studies in food allergy prevention and treatment in vivo models
• Designing and conducting in vivo and ex vivo experiments of food allergy
• Data analysis and interpretation of results
• Participating and co-managing research and innovation projects in food allergy
• Teaching and supervising BSc and MSc student projects, and co-supervising PhD students
• Performing advisory work within food allergy risk assessment and immunotoxicology
• Participating in attracting external funding

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field (e.g. allergology or immunology).

We are looking for a team player with the motivation and drive needed for making a difference that matters. As you will join an international team good command of written and spoken English is necessary.

Other essential qualifications are:

• Experience with independent scientific research
• Experience working with animal experiments
• Solid knowledge in allergy and immunology
• Experience working with mechanistic studies in disease models
• Experience in designing and performing cell-based analyses such as flow cytometry and single cell transcriptomics
• Experience working with bioinformatic analysis
• Knowledge in proteomics

You must contribute to the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both.

You will be assessed against the responsibilities and qualifications stated above and the following general criteria:

• Research experience
• Experience and quality of teaching
• Research vision and potential
• International impact and experience
• Societal impact
• Innovativeness, including commercialization and collaboration with industry
• Leadership, collaboration, and interdisciplinary skills
• Communication skills

Your new team
The Research Group for Food Allergy, headed by Professor Katrine Lindholm Bøgh, researches the relationship between different physicochemical features of food proteins and their capacity to induce either allergy or tolerance with an aim to deepen the understanding on why certain food proteins are more allergenic than others and to develop new and improved preventive, management and treatment strategies. We are part of the Danish National Food Institute where we conduct research at the forefront of healthy, safe and sustainable food. Read more at https://www.food.dtu.dk/english

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

Starting date is 1 March 2025 or according to mutual agreement. The position is a full-time position.

The position is part of DTU’s Tenure Track program. Read more about the program and the recruitment process here.

You can read more about career paths at DTU here.

Further information
Further information may be obtained from Head of Research Group, Professor Katrine Lindholm Bøgh, [email protected] and at Research Group for Food Allergy - DTU Food

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark.

Application procedure
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 30 November 2024 (23:59 Danish time).

Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Apply now", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter)
• Vision for teaching and research for the tenure track period
• CV including employment history, list of publications, H-index and ORCID (see http://orcid.org/)
• Teaching portfolio including documentation of teaching experience
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD)

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply. As DTU works with research in critical technology, which is subject to special rules for security and export control, open-source background checks may be conducted on qualified candidates for the position.

The National Food Institute (DTU Food)
DTU Food conducts research into and disseminates - through advice, innovation and teaching - sustainable and value-creating solutions in the area of food and health for the benefit of society. The institute’s vision is to make a difference by generating future prosperity through research into food and health. The institute prevents disease and promotes health, develops new and better food products for a growing population and creates sustainable technological solutions. The institute’s tasks are carried out in a unique interdisciplinary cooperation in e.g. nutrition, chemistry, toxicology, microbiology, epidemiology, modelling and technology.

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.

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