Pim Martens holds the chair 'Sustainable Development' at Maastricht University, and is a professor extraordinary at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He is the (founding) Director of the Maastricht University Graduate School of Sustainability Science (MUST).

Prof. Martens is project-leader and principal investigator of several projects related to sustainable development and sustainability science in the context of e.g. man animal relationships, globalisation, environmental change and health. Pim Martens is editorial advisor of the International Journal Ecohealth, and member of several editorial boards (e.g. BioScience, EcoHealth, Sustainability Science, Practice & Policy, Sustainability: The Journal of Record and Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability). 

Apart from his scientific work, Pim Martens is also a scientivist, intending to contribute to a better, more sustainable society.

Dr. Martens is a Fulbright New Century Scholar within the programme ‘Health in a Borderless World’ and winner of the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel-Forschungspreis. Pim Martens has been a research professor at ETH Zürich, Switzerland, Leverhulme professor at Aberystwyth University, Wales, and visiting scholar at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (UK), Harvard University (USA), Heidelberg University, (Germany), ETH Zürich (Switzerland), Aberystwyth University (Wales), and Leuphana University Lüneburg (Germany).

Pim Martens is founder of AnimalWise, a “think and do tank” integrating scientific knowledge and animal advocacy to bring about sustainable change in our relationship with animals.