The Assistant Professor hired for this position will join the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis (EPA) at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). The successful candidate will have the responsibility to develop and implement innovative research related to the complexity of environmental governance across different levels of policy-making and across different policy fields, including climate and energy, biodiversity, food and agriculture, fresh water resources and oceans.
In addition to research, the successful candidate will be teaching at Bachelor and Master levels within the field of environmental policy and governance as well as supervising PhD dissertations, Master and Bachelor theses. Teaching and research at IVM are strongly linked, allowing for mutual cross-fertilization. While working closely with colleagues within the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, the candidate is also expected to engage in interdisciplinary research establishing collaborations with researchers from other scientific disciplines, such as economics, geography, ecology, hydrology and climatology.
The successful candidate should have excellent empirical and analytical skills, a strong record with quantitative research methods, and experience working at the science-policy interface. The candidate should show academic leadership, maintain a high publication output, and raise competitive research funding. Teaching, research and management are respectively distributed following a 40%-40%-20% time and effort allocation. The desired starting date is February 2020.
Your duties
- conduct innovative research by further developing existing research lines at EPA
- write research proposals for external funding
- teach and coordinate courses in BSc and MSc programmes, in particular in the Global Environmental Change and Policy (GEC&P) programme of our Earth Sciences Master
- teach and supervise PhD students as part of the nation-wide graduate school Netherlands Research School for Socio-Economic and natural Sciences of the Environment (SENSE)
- recruit and co-supervise PhD researchers
- fulfil limited managerial duties at the department and institute level, including managing European consultancy contracts for the department