Two Tenure-Track-Professorships at the Geography Department of HU Berlin

[Kai Zhu]

Please help spread the word about the tenure-track faculty positions at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Thank you.

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Kai Zhu, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Global Change Biology
School for Environment and Sustainability
University of Michigan
https://zhulab.seas.umich.edu

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From: Tobias Kuemmerle <tobias.k...@hu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, Mar 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Two Tenure-Track-Professorships at the Geography Department of HU Berlin
To: Ivette Perfecto <perf...@umich.edu>, <gre...@umich.edu>, <nhca...@umich.edu>, <she...@umich.edu>, arun...@umich.edu <arun...@umich.edu>, <meha...@umich.edu>, <pre...@umich.edu>, <iib...@umich.edu>, <zhu...@umich.edu>
Cc: Jonas Ostergaard Nielsen <jonas.osterg...@hu-berlin.de>

Dear Michigan colleagues,

I hope this email finds you well despite the challenging and turbulent times we find ourselves in. You might wonder about the somewhat random list of people in email - I am reaching out to you either because we know each other, I admire your work, or your work and leadership aligns with the positions we seek to fill (often all three points apply).

I am reaching out to you as we are currently advertising two tenure track professorships in our department at HU Berlin. Both positions are broad and focus on global change and sustainability, one with a more human-geography profile and one with a more physical-geography profile. We expect strong expertise in quantitative research methods for both positions, with clear links to (one or more of) our research foci - land-use change, climate change, biodiversity loss, urbanities.

These positions are perhaps interesting for some of the postdocs in your groups or at SEAS, the Centre for Sustainable Systems, Institute for Global Change Biology, or at the University of Michigan more widely. We would be most grateful if you could spread these calls in your department and networks. Please also do let us know if you have particularly suitable candidates in mind. Many thanks in advance!

Both positions are W1 (assistant/junior professorship) with tenure track to W3 (full professorship). Candidates need a PhD and an excellent profile fitting the description of the position, and should academically not be 'older' than 6 years after the PhD (period extends for candidates with kids). There are no internal candidates and we hope to internationalize through these broad calls. The Geography of Global Environmental Change professorship is funded through an equal opportunity funding line to increase the number of female professors at HU Berlin.

Here are descriptions of these professorships - I am also attaching PDFs:

• TT-Professorship Geography of Global Environmental Change (W1 with tenure track to W3) --> https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibungen/jp00125-e
  
  
• TT-Professorship Human Geography and Global Transitions (W1 with tenure track to W3): https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibungen/jp00225-e

The application deadline for both positions is April 11.

Please forward this email to candidates you might have in mind. If there are questions, they can contact me for the physical geography position and Jonas Nielsen (in CC) for the human geography position.

A BIG thank you in advance for your help! We know this is some work, but these are outstanding opportunities.

Warm regards.
Tobias

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Prof. Dr. Tobias Kuemmerle
Conservation Biogeography
Geography Department | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

e-mail: tobias.k...@hu-berlin.de
phone: +49 (0) 30 2093 9372
fax: +49 (0) 30 2093 6835
mail: Unter den Linden 6 | 10099 Berlin | Germany
web: www.geographie.hu-berlin.de
https://hu.berlin/biogeography