PhD in Agricultural Economics and Climate Change Policy at ETH Zürich ETH Zürich in Switzerland

PhD research in environmental economics and sustainable food systems is available at the University of Hohenheim in Germany, within the Department of Ecological-Economic Policy Modelling. The thesis will investigate organic food demand, biodiversity-friendly choices and information interventions. The project examines how consumers make food choices, how demand for organic products can be understood, and how information may encourage decisions that support biodiversity and more sustainable food s...

EPFL’s Policy & Sustainability (PASU) lab in Lausanne is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a new SNSF-funded project on Managing a Just Transition to Net Zero . The project combines economics , public policy , political science , computational social science , and environmental science to study the social and economic consequences of the clean energy transition. Research tasks include measuring economic and job vulnerabilities at the individual and regional level, collecting original survey d...

The Policy & Sustainability (PASU) lab at EPFL invites applications for a postdoctoral fellow to join a new SNSF-funded project on managing a just transition to net zero. The project combines applied and theoretical research on the economics and politics of sustainable development, with a strong focus on how decarbonization policies affect workers, regions, and public preferences. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to three main strands of work: measuring economic and job vulnerabilitie...

The Department of Economics at the University of Zurich is inviting applications for a Pre-Doctoral Program – Global Talent Common Application (70% employment, temporary). This is a pre-doctoral research position in economics designed for qualified applicants from low- and middle-income countries and/or applicants with a refugee background. Selected pre-docs work with a professor in the economics department and gain hands-on experience across the research process: brainstorming, literature revie...

Agroscope is advertising a postdoctoral researcher position in Wädenswil, Switzerland on the topic of metabolites of pesticides in groundwater . The role sits in the research group Plant Protection Products – Effects and Assessment , which combines expertise in plant protection products, their environmental behavior, and assessment methods. The project focuses on processing monitoring data on pesticide metabolites in groundwater, compiling Predicted Environmental Concentrations (PEC) from the Eu...