Apply as a Professor in Wageningen University and Research

Application Deadline: March 24, 2025

Wageningen University & Research is inviting applications for an Assistant/ Associate professor. This position is a for a behavioural economist, environmental psychologist, or someone with a similar relevant background who can contribute to advancing insights to these kinds of questions via the research and teaching within the Urban Economics group.

This position is part of the Academic Career Framework (ACF) at Wageningen University & Research, which has replaced the traditional Tenure Track. This new career framework for all academic staff at Wageningen University starts on 9 March 2025. One of the 3 career paths is the Professor Career Path. The aim of this ACF is to achieve a new balance in recognising and valuing academics where both team collaboration and the unique talent of individual scientists are seen, by creating more differentiation in career paths, putting the emphasis on the quality of work and less on quantitative results, doing justice to the individual qualities and ambitions of academics as much as to team performance, promoting all aspects of open science and encouraging high-quality leadership in the academy.

Benefits

sabbatical leave, study leave, and partially paid parental leave;
working hours that can be discussed and arranged so that they allow for the best possible work-life balance;
there is a strong focus on vitality, and you can make use of the sports facilities available on campus for a small fee;
a fixed year-end bonus of 8.3%;
excellent pension scheme.

Eligibility

background in behavioural economics, environmental psychology, or a similar field;
experience with (heterodox) economics;
experience in one of our three domains: energy transition, circular food systems, health & wellbeing (including the relevance of urban green);
experience in supervising msc and/or phd students;
experience in teaching bsc and/or msc courses;
interest in working in transdisciplinary teams: with scientists from different (social and environmental) disciplines, with citizens and public stakeholders;
have a connecting leadership style.