PhD: Urban provisioning systems, sufficiency behaviour, and well-being EPFL in Switzerland

This PhD project at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), within EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, investigates how urban provisioning systems can support low-carbon futures while maintaining or improving human well-being. The research connects urban systems, human behaviour, perceptions, and subjective well-being with socio-metabolic analysis. The doctoral researcher will examine how urban planning interventions and changes in...

EPFL’s HERUS Lab in Lausanne, Switzerland is recruiting a PhD researcher for a project on urban provisioning systems, sufficiency behaviour, and well-being . The research examines how urban planning and provisioning systems can reduce resource use and carbon emissions while improving well-being. Methods mentioned include surveys, interviews, choice experiments, spatial analysis, synthetic household populations, resource demand analysis, and urban material/energy flows . Relevant study areas incl...

ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, invites applications for two doctoral researcher positions in the SNSF-funded project “From Homes to Habitats – Swiss Housing Cooperatives as Agents of Socio-Ecological Transition.” The project investigates how housing cooperatives in Switzerland can support more sustainable ways of living. It moves beyond their established role in providing affordable housing to examine innovative social, spatial, and ecological practices a...

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 opportunity at EPFL Lausanne: Measurement and modeling of urban verticality in Africa. This full-time PhD position is part of the Vertical Africa: Visualizing Urban Change, Negotiating Power, Designing Sustainable Cities (VERTICAF) project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) . The project is co-led by Professors Didier Péclard and Armelle Choplin (University of Geneva) and Jérôme Chenal (EPFL), in partnership with the...