Tenure-Observe Professorship in Conservation and Improvement

The School for Arithmetic and Pure Sciences of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin), Geography Division, has an open place for a tenure-track professorship in Conservation and Improvement.

Beginning as quickly as doable. This can be a Junior Professorship (W1 degree, 100%) with a tenure observe to a everlasting professorship (W2 degree, 100%). To confirm whether or not the person efficiency meets the necessities for everlasting employment, an analysis course of will probably be opened not later than 4 years of the Junior Professorship. Tenure observe professors on the HU Berlin are anticipated to do analysis and instructing, in addition to to be energetic in college administration, within the promotion of younger scientists, and in buying management and administration abilities. The concrete necessities out of the framework catalogue will probably be specified in the middle of the appointment course of.

We search candidates with an excellent analysis report in biodiversity conservation and sustainable improvement, with expertise in working within the World South. Profitable candidates are rooted in conservation science and will need to have a doctoral diploma in conservation science, improvement geography, environmental science, political ecology or associated fields. We anticipate a demonstrated skill to work interdisciplinary, throughout the social and pure sciences to grasp conservation challenges and and develop options.

We search people with the imaginative and prescient, management and enthusiasm to construct an internationally recognised analysis program. We anticipate collaboration with different analysis teams on the division, at HU Berlin and past, and a dedication to selling a constructive, numerous, and inclusive institutional tradition. Expertise in translating conservation science into motion and/or work on the science/coverage interface are useful.

We provide a tenure-track place in a world, younger and vibrant division with a wonderful scientific and training observe report. The profitable candidate will be a part of an interdisciplinary group of school targeted on human-environment relations, world change, and sustainability.

The wage will probably be in keeping with W1 degree, and after profitable tenure analysis W2 degree. Employment at HU Berlin provides all advantages of the German public service system, together with medical insurance, a sexy pension plan, and social advantages.

Commonplace professorial duties embrace analysis (together with advising PhD and postdoctoral researchers), instructing (together with examinations and thesis supervision), and administration (together with administration and management). In the course of the first six years, the professorship can have a decreased instructing load and a decrease administrative load. The institute is altering in direction of a departmental construction wherein the brand new professorship will take part to the identical extent as all different professorships within the widespread pool of employees and analysis infrastructures.

HU Berlin hosts one among Germany’s and Europe’s main geography departments, with analysis foci in local weather change, land-use change, sustainability science, and concrete research. The division contributes to the Built-in Analysis Institute for Transformations in Human-Atmosphere Programs (IRI THESys) and is intently linked to analysis establishments within the Berlin-Brandenburg analysis space, together with the Potsdam Institute for Local weather Impression Analysis, Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Museum of Pure Historical past, Mercator Analysis Institute on World Commons and Local weather Change, and the German Analysis Centre for Geosciences. Berlin is Germany’s largest metropolis with an inspiring metropolitan aptitude, a vibrant cultural scene, massive inexperienced areas, and a family-friendly setting.

HU is looking for to extend the proportion of ladies in analysis and instructing, and particularly encourages certified feminine students to use. The Geography Division strives to internationalise its college crew and strongly encourages people from overseas and/or with numerous cultural backgrounds to use.

We might be notably excited to welcome a brand new colleague originating from the World South. Severely disabled candidates with equal {qualifications} will probably be given preferential consideration. Folks with an immigration background are particularly inspired to use.

The candidates should meet the authorized necessities for professorial appointments along with §102c mixed with §102a of the ‘Berliner Hochschulgesetz’.

Please ship your software inside 6 weeks, quoting the reference quantity JP/001/23 to: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dean of School of Arithmetic and Pure Sciences, Prof. Dr. Caren Tischendorf, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany.

As well as, candidates are requested to ship their software electronically in a single PDF file. Please submit your copies of your paperwork solely as a result of we is not going to return them to you.

Purposes ought to embrace a (1) a canopy letter, (2) a CV (most 3 pages), (3) a instructing idea together with a abstract of instructing expertise (most 2 pages), (4) a analysis idea describing the candidate’s present analysis program and proposed analysis on the intersection of conservation and sustainable improvement sciences (most 3 pages), (5) an inventory of as much as 10 chosen publications, together with brief explanations why these have been chosen, (6) a press release (most 1 web page) figuring out earlier and future contributions to fairness, variety and inclusion, and the candidates skill to work in culturally numerous teams, (7) copies of certificates, and (8) contact particulars of as much as three references.

Software deadline: 8 March 2023

For questions relating to this place please contact: Prof. Tobias Kuemmerle.

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