Chair groups of Wageningen University
The fundamental research at Wageningen University 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 is comprised of one faculty that is divided into five departments.
Agrotechnology and Food Sciences
- Laboratory of Food Chemistry
- Laboratory of Food Microbiology
- Food Process Engineering Group
- Food Quality and Design
- Physics and Physical Chemistry of Foods
Cluster Nutrition Science
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Biomass refinery and Process Dynamics
- Sub-department of Environmental Technology
- Biobased Commodity Chemicals
Cluster Biomolecular Sciences
Animal Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management
Cultural Geography Group
Department of Soil Quality
Earth System Science Group
Environmental Systems Analysis Group
Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group
Forest Ecology and Forest Management Group
Hydrology and Quantitative Water Management
Laboratory of Geo-information Science and Remote Sensing
Land Use Planning Group
Landscape Architecture Group
Meteorology and Air Quality Group
Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology Group
Resource Ecology Group
Soil Physics and Land Management Group
Soil Geography and Landscape Group
Water Resources Management Group
Plant Sciences
Social Sciences is divided in Sub-Departments
- Education and Competence Studies Group
- Law and Governance Group
- Management Studies Group
- Marketing and Consumer Behaviour Group
Sub-Department Management Decision Support
- Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group
- Development Economics Group
- Economics of Consumers and Households
- Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Group
Sub-Department Sociology & Governance
- Environmental Policy Group
- Health and Society
- Public Administration and Policy Group
- Rural and Environmental History Group
- Sociology of Consumers and Households
Sub-department Communication, Technology and Philosophy
And also
Functioning very much like a chair group, but standing separate from the above divisions is Gender Studies.