Requirements at a glance

Publications in leading journals (Required)
Securing research funding (Required)
Economic valuation of environment (Required)
Social scientific valuation (Required)
Economic instruments for conservation (Required)
Markets for ecosystem services (Required)
Macroeconomic approaches (Required)
Public finance (Required)
Institutional economic approaches (Required)
Empirical methods (Required)

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Vacancy ID 12950

At the International Institute Zittau, a Central Academic Unit of TUD, the

Chair (W3) of Ecosystem Services

is to be filled as of October 1, 2027.

Key Duties and Academic Responsibilities

The chair will represent the field of ecosystem services with an environmental-economic or ecological-economic focus in research and teaching, with a teaching assignment of eight semester hours per week (LVS). Priority of teaching lies in the international master's program "Ecosystem Services", which is conducted in English. The chair includes responsibility for the academic coordination and further development of this degree program.The master's program combines the expertise in natural sciences, economics, and social sciences of the International Institute Zittau (IHI), the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at TUD, the Senckenberg Museum of Natural History in Görlitz, and the Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development in Dresden. Membership in the Faculty of Environmental Sciences at TUD is intended.

Research and teaching focus on the principles and methods used to assess and evaluate biodiversity and ecosystem services, as well as integrating their values into private and public decision-making processes. The chair encompasses the strategic development of this interdisciplinary field in collaboration with neighboring areas of biodiversity and environmental research, as well as corporate sustainability and biodiversity management. Further responsibilities include the acquisition of competitive external research funding to support collaborative research initiatives and the promotion of early-career scholars. The chair is positioned at the intersection of business and economics, environmental sciences, and biology, engaging in interdisciplinary research and teaching. In addition, the chair involves active collaboration within TUD, including the Faculty of Environmental Sciences and the Faculty of Business and Economics, the cross-faculty Center for Sustainability Assessment and Policy (PRISMA) at TUD, the DRESDEN-concept research alliance, the TUD Campus Lausitz, the Hi! Lusatia network, the Academic Coordination Centre (ACC) of the Euroregion Neiße, and other local and international partners. The chair actively participates in academic self-administration and in the university’s committees.