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.  

Prof. Martens is project-leader and principal investigator of several projects related to sustainable development and sustainability science, globalisation, environmental change and society. 

Pim Martens is co-editor-in-chief of the International Journal Ecohealth. Dr. Martens is a Fulbright New Century Scholar within the programme 'Health in a Borderless World' and winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis.

Furthermore, has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), Harvard University (USA), Heidelberg University (Germany),  and ETH Zurich (Switzerland).