Full professorship Transdisciplinarity for Sustainability Transformation (W2/W3)

24.08.2023THE SCHOOL OF SUSTAINABILITY AT LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG INVITES APPLICATIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING FULL PROFESSORSHIP:

TRANSDISCIPLINARITY FOR SUSTAINABILITY TRANSFORMATION (W2/W3)

You explore transdisciplinary transformation science with a deep methodological understanding and have a strong background in sustainability science, documented by an excellent peer-review publication record in international journals. You are emerging as a central player in a larger interdisciplinary faculty and establish a central hub on transdisciplinary research. We would like to see experience in the implementation and/or conceptualization of real-world laboratories as experimental fields to promote transdisciplinary research that add to existing topics at Leuphana, School of Sustainability. You aim for larger research funding schemes, are well able to integrate and investigate the diversity of researchers under your lead in (regional) transdisciplinary research projects, and you have an already proven track record in acquiring external or third-party funding for such projects.

In teaching you educate students (on Bachelor and Master level) in future methodologies and concrete inter- and transdisciplinary research projects that aim on transformational change and rigorous research procedures. Your teaching experience and research are tenets of future research in sustainability science and beyond, and aim to educate and mentor future change agents in sustainability science. You have a strong emphasis to develop methodological and conceptual approaches of transdisciplinary research at a leading international level and you fill a leadership role on establishing transdisciplinary research in the international research landscape. While your research is radical in its focus, you are deeply commited to a collaborative connection to diverse colleagues and disciplinary perspectives in the School of Sustainability at Leuphana and beyond.

For this position, we are seeking a committed researcher with an outstanding international research profile in combination with a track record of unique ideas put into action, impacting research as well as society. Your academic work gives evidence of innovative contributions to transdisciplinary approaches both in teaching and research and your profile proves your ability for leading interdisciplinary collaboration and transdisciplinary commitment. Specifically, you have proven experiences in the supervision of students (Bachelor, Master) ideally also PhD and consider gender- and diversity aspects. You have initial experience in the acquisition of external funded projects, ideally you have successfully acquired renowned third-party funding on your own.

The professional position will be filled in accordance with pay grade W2/W3 (university full professorship). Formal requirements are based on § 25 of the Lower Saxony Higher Education Act (NHG) and include a university degree in a discipline relevant to the open position and a doctoral degree in sustainability sciences or related fields; your aptitude for teaching and your ability to engage in independent academic research as demonstrated by the outstanding quality of your dissertation, and additional academic achievements obtained, i.e. in the course of being an assistant professor, during your postdoctoral lecture qualification (German: Habilitation) or other achievements recognized as being equivalent to a postdoctoral qualification.

At Leuphana you will find an academic community that is open to changes in perspective and cultivates the dialogue among the different disciplines as well as between research and practice. With spirit and initiative, we address the challenges of civil society in the 21st century. Pursuing our idea of liberal education, our students are enabled to think, question and act upon it. Our professors foster the awareness of gender and diversity aspects in teaching as well as research.

For further information, please contact the dean of the School of Sustainability, Prof. Dr. Stefan Schaltegger (stefan.schaltegger@leuphana.de), or head of center for methods at Leuphana, Prof. Dr. Henrik von Wehrden (henrik.von_wehrden@leuphana.de).

Leuphana University is an equal opportunities employer. The university aims to increase its number of female professors. Qualified women are especially invited to apply.

Please submit your application (without submission of an application photo) consisting of the following materials in two separate PDF files: a) motivation letter, CV, full publication list, copies of academic degrees, b) a research and cooperation concept (approx. three pages) and three relevant publications. Your research and cooperation concept is outlining a strategy for the development of methodological approaches, possible research topics, cooperation potentials within the School of Sustainability and the university as a whole as well as with practice partners inside and outside academia and possible funding formats. The concept should demonstrate how you will contribute to the university’s dynamic profile in the field of sustainability transformation. Please enclose the completed application form (as Excel file) with your documents. Guidance on the required application materials can be found here.

Applications should be sent preferably by email using the key word Transdisciplinarity (W2/W3) to beko@leuphana.de or to the President of Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Post Box 2440, Lüneburg D-21314 by October 15, 2023. Please be aware that we cannot return application documents sent physically.

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