Martin Schmid

Career

• 2025 - 2026 "VWprofessor" for students of the Master in Environment and Society at LMU Munich (Rachel Carson Center, LMU Munich)
• 2024 - 2025 Visiting Fellow (KLI - Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research)
• 2018 Transfer Institute of Social Ecology to University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
• 2016 - 2018 Deputy Director of Studies (“Studienprogrammleiter”) of the Doctoral Program (Dr. phil.) at Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Wien, Graz
• 2014 - 2017 Deputy director of the Institute of Social Ecology, Alpen-Adria Universität
• 2014 Associate professor for environmental history at the Institute of Social Ecology
• 2014 Habilitation in Environmental History, IFF Faculty, Klagenfurt University
• 2011 Carson Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society, LMU and Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany
• 2010 - 2011 Deputy Director of Studies (Studienprogrammleiter) at the Faculty for Interdisciplinary Studies (IFF) incl. Master program in Social and Human Ecology
• 2010 - 2011 Head of the Center for Environmental History in Vienna
• 2009 - 2012 Leader of the iff-programme on interdisciplinary communication (“Studium Integrale”)
• 2007 - 2014 Assistant professor for environmental history, Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, Vienna, Austria
• 2007 Researcher Institute of Social Ecology
• 2007 PhD in Environmental History, University of Vienna
• 2003 Founding member of the Center for Environmental History [ZUG- Zentrum für Umweltgeschichte] at the IFF in Vienna
• 2002 Master in History, University of Vienna

Awards

• Year: 2023 Awards: Anerkennungspreis für außergewöhnliche Leistungen in der Lehre an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien (für die Vorlesung "Die Soziale Ökologie des Anthropozäns")
• Year: 2019 Awards: Distinguished Book Award of SMH, the Society for Military History for: Tucker RP, Keller T, McNeill JR, and Martin Schmid (Eds.): Environmental Histories of the First World War. Cambridge UP. 2018.
• Year: 2010 Awards: 3. Platz beim Sustainability Award 2010 im Handlungsfeld "Lehre und Curricula" für die Universität Klagenfurt, BMWF
• Year: 2008 Awards: Best oral presentation at the 37th International Association for Danube Research IAD-Conference