PhD Position: Nutrition, Exercise and Biological Ageing

Wageningen University & Research
📍 Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands 💼 Full time 🕒 Posted June 28, 2026

Job Description

Are you interested in how nutrition and exercise can be used to slow biological ageing? Do you want to contribute to an ambitious national research programme that combines nutrition science, exercise physiology, omics technologies and data science to improve healthy ageing?

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Are you interested in how nutrition and exercise can be used to slow biological ageing? Do you want to contribute to an ambitious national research programme that combines nutrition science, exercise physiology, omics technologies and data science to improve healthy ageing?

As a PhD candidate in the BIO-COMPaSS consortium, you will investigate how nutrition and exercise influence biological ageing and how personalised lifestyle interventions can be developed using biological age indicators, biomarkers and advanced omics technologies. You will combine data analysis with intervention research and collaborate with researchers, healthcare professionals and societal partners across ...

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Job Details

  • Location Wageningen, Gelderland
  • Job Type Full time
  • Category Life Scientists
  • Posted Date June 28, 2026
  • Application Deadline August 07, 2026