He has held the Chair of Economics, Public Finance and Industrial Organization at Technical University of Munich.

[2] From 2003 to 2020, he has been full professor of economics, public finance and industrial organization, and since 2020 he is Emeritus of Excellence at Technical University of Munich.

He was a visiting scholar at Cambridge University, Université Catholique de Louvain, London School of Economics, Stanford University, Oxford University, and the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. Robert von Weizsäcker is research fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research in London, the Ifo Institute for Economic Research in Munich, and the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn.

In addition he held positions as faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, as member of the managing board of the Institute for Mittelstand-Research in Mannheim, and as board member of the Carl von Linde Academy in Munich.

[5] Robert von Weizsäcker holds an international Amateur Radio license with the call sign DL1BOB.