PhD in Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change at University of Basel University of Basel in Switzerland

ETH Zurich is advertising a doctoral position on cognitive and moral heuristics in lay people’s reactions to climate change adaptation . The project sits at the intersection of psychology , environmental science , social sciences , and climate change adaptation , with a focus on how mental shortcuts shape risk perception, moral considerations, private adaptation behavior, and public support for technologies and regulations. The doctoral thesis aims to generate insights into how cognitive heurist...

A PhD opening is available in Urban Provisioning Systems, Sufficiency Behaviour, and Well-Being at EPFL , in collaboration with the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . The project examines how urban planning interventions and changes in provisioning systems influence citizens’ perceptions, behavioral choices, and subjective well-being, and how these changes affect resource demand and urban socio-metabolic profiles. The research is interdisciplinary and combines spatial/quantitative analysis wit...

PhD opening at ETH Zürich in the area of perceptions of population decline , with a focus on how people perceive the potential opportunities and risks of demographic decline. The project is hosted by the consumer behavior research group at ETH Zürich in Switzerland . The doctoral research will examine public perceptions of population decline, including how these perceptions are shaped and what factors influence them. The topic connects sociology , economics , environmental science , and psycholo...

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...

ETH Zurich is advertising three postdoctoral positions in Circular Engineering for Architecture at the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture (CEA), led by Prof. Dr. Catherine De Wolf in the Institute of Construction and Infrastructure Management (IBI), Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering (D-BAUG). The research theme is digitalization towards a circular built environment , combining circular economy principles with digital innovation in construction. The three pos...