As one of Europe’s leading research universities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching. Building on its more than 500-year-long tradition, it offers a broad spectrum that covers all areas of knowledge within its 18 Faculties, ranging from the humanities, law, economics and social sciences, to medicine and the natural sciences.

The Faculty of Geosciences invites applications for a

Professorship (W2) (6 years/tenure track)
of Physical Geography and Land-Atmosphere Coupling

commencing as soon as possible.

LMU Munich’s Department of Geography plays the leading role in Germany in research and teaching in the field of Geography of Sustainability. In order to complement its scientific strengths in the fields of global change research, land-use dynamics, climate research, remote sensing, human-environment relations, economic geography and water-land-ecosystem nexus, the department seeks a scientific personality in the field of interactions between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere under global change with an excellent research and publication record in this field that matches his/her career stage. Topics include, from a perspective of Physical Geography, research on planetary boundary processes over heterogeneous and novel types of land use, weather extremes feedbacks with the Earth's surface, or land-based energy meteorology. Methodological focus lies on numerical modeling, with a strong component of crossing scales to high-resolution applications that link to observational data. The successful candidate will find a rich environment for collaboration at department, faculty and university level, particularly within LMU’s profile area “Earth and Environment”. 

LMU Munich seeks to appoint a highly qualified junior academic to this professorship and, therefore, especially encourages early-career scholars to apply. Prerequisites for this position are a university degree and a doctoral degree or a comparable specific qualification. With an excellent record in research and teaching to date, prospective candidates will have demonstrated the potential for an outstanding academic career.

The initial appointment will be for six years. After a minimum of three years, it can be converted into a permanent position pending a positive evaluation of the candidate’s performance in research and teaching as well as his or her personal aptitude and if all legal conditions are met.

Under the terms of the “LMU Academic Career Program”, in exceptional cases and subject to outstanding performance in research and teaching, the position may be converted from a W2 into a W3 Full Professorship at a later date.

LMU Munich makes a point of providing newly appointed professors with various types of support, such as welcoming services and assistance for dual career couples.

LMU Munich is an equal opportunity employer. The University continues to be very successful in increasing the number of female faculty members and strongly encourages applications from female candidates. LMU Munich intends to enhance the diversity of its faculty members. Furthermore, ddisabled candidates with essentially equal qualifications will be given preference.

Please submit your application comprising a curriculum vitae, documentation of academic degrees and certificates as well as a list of publications to the Dean of the Faculty of Geosciences, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Luisenstrasse 37, D-80333 Munich, Germany, no later than November 30th, 2021. Please submit your application online via https://dekanat.geographie-muenchen.de/en/.