Who wouldn't want this as their office? #applynow #plantscience #communication

This is a chance to build something new, make science accessible, and put an institute with global impact on the map.
📍28–38 h/week, scale 11 (€4,537–€6,209) + holiday & year-end bonus
📅Apply by 14 Sept 2025
🔗https://www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/science-communication-lead

As Science Communication Lead you’ll:
✨ Shape and execute JII’s communication strategy
✨ Turn complex science into clear stories for diverse audiences
✨ Lead media outreach, events, web & social content
✨ Work with partners to expand our communication capacity

#ScienceCommunication #CommsJobs

📍 38 h/week, scale 10 salary (€3,378–€5,331) + holiday/year-end bonuses.
📅 Apply by 7 Sept 2025.
🔗 www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/re...
#Postdoc #PlantScience #Photosynthesis #Hiring

What you will do: co-develop methods & sensors to measure photorespiration traits, uncover genetic mechanisms, and collaborate across biochemistry, physiology, engineering & data science.

💡 Both roles: competitive pay + holiday/year-end bonus. Join our international team improving the most important process on Earth.
📅 Apply by 7 Sept 2025 👉 jii.org/vacancies
#Photosynthesis #PlantScience #PhDOpportunity

🔬 Photosynthetic Electron Transport & Alternative Sinks (PEAS)
Investigate plant energy use via rapid photosynthesis measurements during CO₂ changes. Method dev + physiology training.
More info: www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/re...

🔬 Genomic Selection for Photosynthesis (GSP)
Use quantitative genetics, physiology & high-throughput phenotyping to boost crop photosynthesis. Lit review + small experiments → your PhD proposal.
More info: www.jan-ingenhousz-institute.org/vacancies/re...

Read more about the project #REAP2SOW on the website of @w-u-r.bsky.social :

www.wur.nl/en/news-wur/...

"We are involved in photosynthesis measurements on the three protein crops involved - #lupin, #aardaker and #quinoa - so we will get the chance to apply our newly developed methods and equipment for the high-throughput screening of limitations of #photosynthesis," she concludes.

Thekla: "It is pretty cool that it is such an interdisciplinary project, from plant science, agriculture all the way to consumer acceptance and societal impact. And so much more!"

Luckily, those of us still in Wageningen are not left out; two of our amazing interns are wrapping up their projects this week and are presenting them today as well.
Congrats to Sophie Tolboom and Nikita Monteban!

Also a special shoutout to Mauricio Tejera-Nueves, who is even celebrating his birthday while presenting at the #SEB2025. If you see him, congratulate him! 😜🍻

Thanks to the technical expertise of Ludovico and others at JII – Atsuko Kanazawa – and Jingcheng Huang, Robert Zegarac and team at partner organization @michiganstateu.bsky.social, we can quickly iterate and improve on the sensors and test them out. We’re looking forward to seeing the results!

Ludovico placed two sensors: one in the full sun with a solar panel, and one in a shady area on batteries. Over the coming months, he will check how they are doing and add more sensors as they become available.

“This is a great location for a test run with these sensors,” Ludovico says, “because it’s actually quite desert-like. It can get over 50 °C here on some days! A perfect place to see if plants react to high temperatures similar to those in Australia, where we want to set up bigger experiments.”

JII Research fellow Ludovico Caracciolo has been one of the people working on the ‘Ambit’ sensor, and here we see him placing one of the sensors in an area within the Hoge Veluwe that is known to be very dry and hot. #hogeveluwe

To really understand #photosynthesis, we need to capture those changes by measuring plants continuously. That’s why we’re working on a #sensor that can remain in the field. And this week we’ve started the first tests during hot weather, at National Park De Hoge Veluwe in the Netherlands.