Prof. Dr. Pim Martens

Professor for Global Dynamics and Sustainable Development

Member of the Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research

Pim Martens is Director of the International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS), Maastricht University. He holds the chair  'Sustainable Development' at Maastricht University, is a guest-professor at Leuphana University Lüneburg, and is a Leverhulme honorary professor at the Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences at Aberystwyth University, Wales.

Vita

Academic Degrees and Positions

• 2010: Guest Professor ‘Global Dynamics and Sustainable Development’, Leuphana University Lüneburg
• 2008: Honorary Professor Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University
• 2008-2010: Research Professor of Globalisation, KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich
• 2008: Full Professor of Sustainable Development, Maastricht University
• 2004-2008: Extraordinary Professor of Sustainable Development, Maastricht University, Open University, Zuyd University
• 1997: Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, Maastricht University
• 1993: M.Sc., Environmental Health Sciences, Maastricht University
• 1991: M.Sc., Biological Health Sciences, Maastricht University

Professional Experience

• 2010 - present: Member Health Council (Advisory Council for the Dutch Government, Advisory Group Health and the Environment).
• 2007 - present: Vice-dean, Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, University Maastricht.
• 2004 - present: Director International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS)
• 2004 - 2010: Member Board of Directors ‘KNAW-Researchschool’ SENSE (Socio-Economic and Natural Sciences of the Environment)
• 2001 - 2004: Deputy Director International Centre for Integrated Assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS)
• 2001 - 2003: Honorary Senior Lecturer,London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
• 1998 - 2004: Senior Researcher International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS)
• 1997 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Maastricht University, Department of Mathematics
• 1993 - 1997: Researcher project ‘Global Dynamics and Sustainable Development’, RIVM
• 1993 - 1997: PhD-student, Maastricht University, Department of Mathematics

Editorial and Advisory Boards

• 2010 - present: Member The Integrated Assessment Society (TIAS) Advisory Board
• 2009 - present: Member Editorial Board International Journal ‘Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability’ , Elsevier
• 2007 - present: Member Editorial Board International Journal ‘Sustainability: The Journal of Record’
• 2007 - present: Member Committee of Recommendation International Research by Students Programme (IRSP)
• 2007 - present: Member Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Integrated Research in the Rural Environment (CIRRE), Wales
• 2007 - present: Member Committee of Recommendation, Change Magazine
• 2007 - present: Member Editorial Board International Journal ‘Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy’
• 2003 - present: Editor International Journal ‘Ecohealth: Human Health, Conservation Medicine, Ecosystem Sustainability’, Springer

Awards and Distinctions

• 2007: As a member of the IPCC, joint Nobel-Price Winner for Peace
• 2006: Nominated for the Rachel Carson Award, VVM
• 2005: As a member of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the Zayed international environmental prize
• 2005: Nominated for ‘Most Famous Health Scientist’ at Maastricht University’
• 2004: Nominated for ‘Innovation and Sustainability: Most Sustainable Educational Programme’, ‘Egg of Columbus’, Netherlands Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
• 2003: Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis, Humboldt Foundation, German Ministry of Research and Education
• 2003: Winner scoping paper competition ‘Potential applicability of integrated environmental assessment in ‘new’ areas’. European Forumon Integrated Environmental Assessment (EFIEA)
• 2001 - 2002: Fulbright New Century Scholars Award, The New Century Scholars Program ‘Challenges of Health in a Borderless World’
• 1998: Winner essay competition ‘Important but underrepresented topics in climate change research and policy’, Dutch National ResearchProgramme (NRP)
• 1994: Award for the best M.Sc.-thesis, Maastricht University, Faculty of General Sciences
• 1993: Award for the best paper. VSB Masterclass: Greenhouse effect and climate change: causes, effects and measures