Fully Funded PhD in Economics and Health Economics on Sustainable Mobility and Sufficiency Strategies Université catholique de Louvain in Canada

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Economics / Health Economics at Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain), Belgium.

The position is part of the interdisciplinary ARC project LESS4MORE – Leveraging Individual and Collective Engagement in Sufficiency Strategies for Mobility. The PhD researcher will contribute to the economics and health economics work package, focusing on the welfare and health impacts of sufficiency-oriented mobility scenarios, especially their distributional effects across population groups and their implications for health and social inequalities. A second major objective is to assess the economic sustainability of these measures through a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis integrating healthcare, environmental, and welfare outcomes.

The project is strongly interdisciplinary and connects economics with engineering, psychological sciences, constitutional law, public economics, and broader sustainability research. The successful candidate will work with the outputs and infrastructure of the BEAMM platform (Belgian Arithmetic Microsimulation Model), an open-access tax-benefit microsimulation model used to simulate mobility and fiscal scenarios with socioeconomic, health, and behavioural data.

Research themes and keywords include health economics, public economics, mobility policy, sustainable mobility, welfare analysis, health inequalities, social inequalities, microsimulation, and environmental outcomes.

The post is advertised by Sandy Tubeuf, Professor in Health Economics at UCLouvain, together with Hélène Latzer. The project is embedded in UCLouvain’s Louvain4Sufficiency platform, which links academic research with societal actors working on sufficiency-oriented transitions.

Funding: fully funded 4-year PhD position.

Deadline: 1 June 2026.

Start date: 1 October 2026.

Location: UCLouvain, Belgium.

Interested candidates should consult the full announcement and follow the application procedure via the provided link.