Martin Schmid
Assoc. Prof. Mag.Dr. Martin
Schmid
Institute of Social Ecology
Location Schottenfeldgasse 29, 1070 Wien
Email martin.schmid@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-73716
ORCID: 0000-0002-0440-9802, opens in new window.
ResearcherId : A-4979-2016
AuthorId : 58745381700, opens in new window.
classifications according to Statistics Austria:
Environmental protectionEnvironmental researchHuman ecologyHistorical regional studiesCultural landscape researchScience of historySocial ecologyEnvironmental history
Environmental protectionEnvironmental researchHuman ecologyHistorical regional studiesCultural landscape researchScience of historySocial ecologyEnvironmental history
Research Focus
Environmental History
keywords
- LTSER - Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research
- Environmental History
- Environmental History of Rivers (i.p. the Danube)
- Urban Environmental History
- Environmental History of Wars
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