Robert Bosch Junior Professorship
Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources
Each year the Robert Bosch Stiftung invites applications for the Robert Bosch Junior Professorship “Research into the Sustainable Use of Renewable Natural Resources“, granting up to one million euros for independent research over a period of five years. The chair of the Advisory Board and the selection committee is former German Minister for the Environment and Executive Director of UNEP, Klaus Töpfer. The deadline for applications for the Junior Professorship 2010 was June 10, 2009. The earliest possible date for a successful applicant to take up the position is February 1, 2010. For more information see "Announcement and Guidelines".
We welcome applicants from all areas. For this year's call for applications, we encouraged especially applications in the following area of research: Global Environmental Change and Health - Increased environmental change caused by drivers such as climate or land use change, environmental pollution of urbanization has consequences for human health that are poorly understood. Studies should focus on the effect of change on the epidemiology of (a) human desease(s) and the potential for adaptation.
Eligible are scientists of all nationalities in all relevant disciplines, from agriculture, forestry, biology and environmental sciences, to economic science, mathematics, political science, sociology, and medicine. If the applicant so wishes, the foundation may support him or her in negotiating a tenure track option at the host institution.
The first Junior Professorship was awarded to Dr. Nina Farwig on March 27, 2008, in Berlin. The second Junior Professorship was awarded to Dr. Asia Khamzina on March 6, 2009, in Berlin (see links on the left hand menu bar).
We welcome applicants from all areas. For this year's call for applications, we encouraged especially applications in the following area of research: Global Environmental Change and Health - Increased environmental change caused by drivers such as climate or land use change, environmental pollution of urbanization has consequences for human health that are poorly understood. Studies should focus on the effect of change on the epidemiology of (a) human desease(s) and the potential for adaptation.
Eligible are scientists of all nationalities in all relevant disciplines, from agriculture, forestry, biology and environmental sciences, to economic science, mathematics, political science, sociology, and medicine. If the applicant so wishes, the foundation may support him or her in negotiating a tenure track option at the host institution.
The first Junior Professorship was awarded to Dr. Nina Farwig on March 27, 2008, in Berlin. The second Junior Professorship was awarded to Dr. Asia Khamzina on March 6, 2009, in Berlin (see links on the left hand menu bar).
