Chair groups of Wageningen University & Research
The fundamental research at Wageningen University & Research is conducted by chair groups. Each chair group, under leadership of a professor, has its own area of expertise. All chair groups share a common research domain: healthy food and living environment. Wageningen University & Research is comprised of one faculty that is divided into five departments.
Agrotechnology and Food Sciences
Cluster Food Sciences
- Food Chemistry (FCH)
- Food Microbiology (FHM)
- Food Process Engineering (FPE)
- Food Quality and Design (FQD)
- Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foods (FPH)
Cluster Nutrition Science
Cluster Biobased Sciences
Cluster Biomolecular Sciences
Animal Sciences
Environmental Sciences
- Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management (AEW)
- Cultural Geography Group (GEO)
- Environmental Systems Analysis Group (ESA)
- Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group (FNP)
- Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group (FEM)
- Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management (HWM)
- Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing (GRS)
- Landscape Architecture and Spatial Planning (LSP)
- Meteorology and Air Quality Group (MAQ)
- Plant Ecology and Nature Conservation Group (PEN)
- Soil Biology Group (SBL)
- Soil Chemistry and Chemical Soil Quality (SOC)
- Soil Physics and Land Management Group (SLM)
- Soil Geography and Landscape Group (SGL)
- Water Resources Management Group (WRM)
- Water Systems and Global Change Group (WSG)
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation Group (WEC)
Plant Sciences
- Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MOB)
- Laboratory of Nematology (NEM)
- Laboratory of Phytopathology (PHP)
- Laboratory of Plant Physiology (PPH)
- Laboratory of Plant Breeding (PBR)
- Laboratory of Virology (VIR)
- Mathematical and Statistical Methods (Biometris)
- Plant Production Systems Group (PPS)
- Plant Developmental Biology (PDB)
Social Sciences
Section Business Science
- Business Economics Group (BEC)
- Business Management and Organisation (BMO)
- Information Technology Group (INF)
- Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group (MCB)
- Operations Research and Logistics Group (ORL)
Section Economics
- Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group (AEP)
- Development Economics Group (DEC)
- Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Group (ENR)
- Rural and Environmental History Group (RHI)
- Urban Economics (UEC)
Section Space, Place and Society
Section Sustainable Governance
Section Communication, Philosophy and Technology
- Knowledge, Technology and Innovation Group (KTI)
- Philosophy Group (PHI)
- Strategic Communication Group (COM)
Sectie Healthy and Sustainable Living & Learning
And also
Functioning very much like a chair group, but standing separate from the above divisions is Gender Studies.