Job opportunity Assistant Professors, tenure track, qualification agreement at Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Jobportal

Context

This tenure track position will be allocated to the research group Global Resource Use at the Institute for Ecological Economics. The research group assesses societys use of natural resources especially raw materials energy land and water and its environmental social and economic consequences from production trade and consumption perspectives. The group develops innovative methods to analyse resource flows along international supply chains and trace products and related impacts from the location of resource extraction via manufacturing to final consumers. The group thereby supports the design of science-based and target-oriented policies for sustainable production and consumption and the transition towards an economy operating within planetary boundaries.

Your responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Conduct cutting-edge research: You will perform research on the use of natural resources on the global scale with a particular emphasis on raw materials essential for sustainability transitions in the energy mobility and construction sectors. The research will include the development and advancement of methods to assess the environmental impacts of resource extraction incorporating spatially explicit analyses and the integration of Earth observation data.
• Publish in international journals: The candidate is expected to publish regularly in international peer-reviewed journals including in high-level interdisciplinary journals in the fields of ecological economics industrial ecology sustainable production and consumption and environmental sustainability.
• Apply for third-party research funding: You will be active in acquiring highly competitive research funding at national European and international levels including from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) and European research programs.
• Engage with academic communities: The candidate will present research results as well as organize sessions and workshops at leading international conferences in the respective fields and will participate in professional association committees.
• Teach at undergraduate and graduate levels: You will enroll in the teaching program of the institute at the Bachelor and Master levels including courses in the specialization areas offered by the Institute. You will also actively contribute to the further development of study programs and the teaching profile of the Institute.
• Supervise theses and PhD students: The candidate will serve as supervisor for Bachelors and Masters theses and support and guide PhD students in their research.
• Engage in Third Mission activities: You will actively pursue activities to cooperate with non-academic actors such as NGOs or international organizations and communicate your research to a wider audience including the general public.
• Contribute to administration of the Institute: The candidate will take over leadership positions at the Institute in particular in the area of research coordination across the various research groups.

We expect that the successful candidate fulfills the following criteria:

• Academic qualification (PhD degree) in industrial ecology ecological economics or a closely related field.
• Strong methods knowledge in economy-wide material flow analysis environmentally extended physical and monetary multi-regional input-output modelling and geodata analysis for assessing environmental impacts of resource extraction.
• Excellent publication record in high-ranking international peer-reviewed journals.
• Demonstrated leadership skills particularly in supervising students and early-career researchers.
• Proven potential to obtain top-level research funding including from the European Research Council and similar excellence funding schemes at the national level.
• Extensive international network that fosters high-impact interdisciplinary research including through collaborations with global institutions international organizations and civil society actors.
• Teaching experience in relevant areas in English and German at Bachelor- or Master-level and willingness to use multimedia teaching methods and learning formats.
• Proven administration and coordination skills at the level of academic units.
• Academic mobility: Candidates who completed their PhD/doctoral degree at WU Vienna must present proof that they have completed an uninterrupted employment period at a postdoc/Assistant Professor level of at least two years (with a minimum of 20h/week employment) at another university or non-academic research institution without simultaneous employment at WU.

Required submission materials:

• Cover letter
• C.V.
• Research statement
• Teaching statement

For details of the position please contact the Head of the Recruiting Committee Professor Sigrid Stagl Institute for Ecological Economics by phone: 43 or email: .