Professional Experience

Matthias Ruth, Ph.D.

Roy F. Weston Chair in Natural Economics
Director, Environmental Policy Program
Co-Director, Engineering and Public Policy

School of Public Policy
University of Maryland
3139 Van Munching Hall
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-6075
Fax: 301-403-4675
Email: mruth1@umd.edu

March 2008

2004-present Roy F. Weston Chair of Natural Economics, Maryland School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2004-present Founding Co-Director and Professor , Engineering and Public Policy Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2004 Visiting Professor, Departamento de Biologia, Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

2003-present

Professor and Director, Environmental Policy Program, Maryland School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

2003-present

Co-Director and Professor, Joint Program in Conservation Biology, Sustainable Development and Public Policy, College of Chemical and Life Sciences and School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.

2000-2003

Associate Professor and Director, Environmental Policy Program, Maryland School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

2002-present

Faculty Member, Marine Estuarine Environmental Science Graduate Program, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

2002-present

Faculty Member, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

2000-2002

Adjunct Professor at the Department of Geography and the Center for Transportation Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

1998-2000

Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, and the Center for Transportation Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

1998-1999

Visiting Scholar at the International Environment and Resource Policy Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

1992-1998

Assistant Professor at the Department of Geography and at the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

1991

Teaching Associate, Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1987-1989

Research Assistant at the Department of Economics, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Federal Republic of Germany


Affiliate Professorships and Related Appointments
2007 – present Faculty member, University of Maryland Energy Research Center, A. James Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
2005 – present Affiliate Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
2002 – present

Affiliate Professor, National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland

2000 – 2002

Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography and the Center for Transportation Studies, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts


Visiting Professorships

2007 – present Member of the University Faculty, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany.
2006-2007 Visiting Professor, artec, Research Center for Sustainability Studies ,and Division of Technology Development and Assessment, School of Engineering, Universität Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2005 Visiting Professor, Landcare Research and the Centre for Ecological Economics, Massay Univeristy, Palmerston North, New Zealand
2004 Visiting Professor, Departamento de Biología , Universidad de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1998 – 1999

Visiting Professor, International Environment and Resource Policy Program, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and the Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA

1998 Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius