PhD Position in Agricultural Economics, Sustainability, and Digital Transformation at Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich in Germany

Funded M.S. research assistantship in Environmental and Resource Economics at Virginia Tech (Department of Sustainable Biomaterials), USA. The student will work with Dr. Ching-Hsun Huang on the economics of forest-based bioenergy and sustainable forest utilization as part of an interdisciplinary team. Research directions include economic valuation and benefit-cost analysis , social welfare and public-health externalities , and uncertainty and sensitivity analysis with policy interpretation. This...

The University of Helsinki’s Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry, is inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics . The position is based in the Agricultural Economics research group at the Viikki campus in Helsinki, Finland, and is part of the research project Intergenerational Transitions in the Nordics (NEXT) . The project is funded by the Peter Wallenberg Foundation and is led by Professor Lucia Naldi (Jönköping University) and Prof...

North Carolina State University is advertising a fully funded PhD Research Assistantship in Spatial Modeling of Forest Growth & Resource Economics within the Department of Forestry and Environmental Resources. The project sits at the intersection of quantitative forestry , forest biometrics , remote sensing , GIS , resource economics , and spatial modeling . The selected student will study how site-specific silvicultural interventions—especially fertilization and understory vegetation control—af...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Economics at the University of Helsinki , Department of Economics and Management, Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry. The position is part of the research project Intergenerational Transitions in the Nordics (NEXT) , funded by the Peter Wallenberg Foundation and led by Professor Lucia Naldi (Jönköping University) and Professor Pia Nilsson (University of Helsinki). The project examines how inheritance and gift taxation shape intergenerational farm succession and the de...

PhD position in Economics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) , Campus Weihenstephan near Munich, in the WETTER project supported by the Joachim Herz Prize 2026 (Joachim Herz Stiftung). The project studies household water conservation in Germany using large-scale randomized field experiments and high-frequency smart-meter data . The research sits at the intersection of environmental economics and behavioral economics , with a strong empirical and experimental focus. The successful candid...