Research professor in Landscape and Urbanism (BOFZAP

Organisation/Company KU LEUVEN Research Field Architecture » Landscape architecture Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Final date to receive applications 1 Sep 2026 - 23:59 (UTC) Country Belgium Type of Contract To be defined Job Status Full-time Offer Starting Date 1 Sep 2027 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Reference Number BZI-2026-2 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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It is part of the assignment of the appointed candidate to develop, within the domain of landscape architecture, urbanism and design, an international, competitive research programme, to pursue excellent scientific results at an international level and to support and promote national and international research partnerships. The candidate must meet a strong research profile or have the potential to do so. In addition, the candidate is expected to have a multidisciplinary attitude and a willingness to cooperate intensively with other researchers of the unit Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning (UULP) at the Department of Architecture of KU Leuven, as well as other research units and departments.

• Is an excellent, internationally oriented researcher and develops a research programme at the forefront in the field of landscape architecture, urbanism and design. Today, advanced landscape architecture research is located at the crossroads of the landscape urbanism thesis (landscape as the framing structure for urbanism), eco-engineering, the transformation of human-nature relations, and the capacities of landscape architecture, urbanism and design to deal with the social-ecological crisis (global warming, de-colonization, social-environmental justice, biodiversity loss, strong heat and drought waves, high levels of soil and air contamination, recurrent flooding, etc.).
  
  The candidate will develop interdisciplinary theoretical, methodological and practical approaches for understanding, modeling, designing and implementing innovative nature- and landscape-based solutions for these contemporary challenges.
• Would need to have fundamental knowledge on aspects of landscape and urban design, ecology, building and water engineering, human-nature relations and ways to synthesize these through projective design of possible urban, rural and territorial futures.
• Will develop a top-level agenda of fundamental and applied research on research questions such as (1) the spatial, structural and functional characteristics of ecosystem elements; (2) the integrity of natural and human-produced ecosystems; (3) the integration of nature-based solutions in architecture and urbanism scenarios; (4) the creation of feedback loops between engineering and projective design scenarios of green, blue and built infrastructures, architecture, landscape and urbanism;
  
  (5) the role of landscape architecture, urbanism and design in addressing socio-ecological challenges and injustices; (6) the dynamics of strategic landscape projects and potential spatial policies that substantially contribute to a more sustainable society.
• Strengthens existing research lines and brings complementary and/or new expertise by working closely with the members of the research unit Urban Design, Urbanism, Landscape and Planning.
• Publishes at the highest scientific level in journals such as Journal of Landscape Architecture, Landscape Journal, Landscape and Urban Planning, Nature Sustainability, Nature Climate Change, Nature, Landscape Architecture Frontiers, Environment and Planning B:
  Urban Analytics and City Science, Environment and Planning E:
  Nature and Space, Urban Forestry and Urban Greening, Urban Studies, Urban Planning, ….. The researcher would also be involved in organizations such as IFLA (international Federation of Landscape Architects), ECLAS (European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools).
• Is capable of contributing to, developing and leading a research group of various researchers.
• Supervises master students, PhD students and postdoctoral researchers at a high international level.
• Aims to acquire competitive research funding from national…