Wageningen University, part of Wageningen UR, has announced the appointment of two extraordinary professors on 1 June 2010. Dr J.B. Luten and Dr W. Hazeleger will assume the newly created Chairs of Seafood and Climate Dynamics respectively.
Seafood
Professor Luten’s teaching and research remit will involve the relationship between the diet of fish on the one hand and the nutritional and sensory (taste and smell) characteristics of fish as health-promoting food for humans on the other. He will focus on the fish production methods – primarily aquaculture – that reflect the consumer preference for fresh, nutritious, high-quality fish and on innovative market research in this area.
The Seafood Chair is funded by IMARES, the institute for marine ecological research at Wageningen UR, and falls under the Product Design and Quality Management Group at Wageningen University.
Photo: Frank Gregersen, Nofima
Joop Luten (Utrecht, 1948) graduated in Analytical and Food Chemistry from Utrecht University in 1973. He gained his PhD at the same university in 1977. Luten combines his position as European Business Developer at Nofima (research institute for food, fisheries and aquaculture) in Tromsø, Norway, with his work at IMARES in IJmuiden. He is a member of the management team of WEFTA (European association of research institutes for fish technology) and vice-president of the SEAFOODplus research platform.
Climate dynamics
Professor Hazeleger’s teaching and research will focus on the study of processes that determine circulations in the earth’s atmosphere and oceans, including changes caused by natural and human influences. Hazeleger uses climate models to gain a clearer understanding of the relationship between small-scale physical and biogeochemical processes and large-scale circulation and the influence of climate change on the human living environment.
Professor Hazeleger will work in collaboration with the Meteorology and Air Quality Group and the Earth System Science and Climate Change Group. The extraordinary Chair in Climate Dynamics is funded by the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.
Photo: KNMI
Wilco Hazeleger (Barneveld, 1971) graduated with distinction from Wageningen University in 1994 and was awarded a PhD in Physical Oceanography at Utrecht University in 1999. Since 2006 he has headed the Global Climate Department at the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute. Amongst others, he is Chair of the European Consortium for Climate Modellers and a member of the Global Change Committee of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.