Research Scientist in Economics of Sustainability (m/f)

Description: Language: English (UK) Location: Esch-sur-Alzette Country: Luxembourg Organisation data: Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems Job Number: UOL08508 Contract Type: Permanent Expected Start Date: 01/11/2026 Job Level: level 1 Functions: Researcher Role Type: Cluster Expertise: Researcher / Postdoctorant Job (internal): Research scientist Your role: The successful candidate will establish internationally visible research at the interface of economics, sustainability science and global environmental change, developing new quantitative approaches to understand and steer transformations across food, land, water and natural-resource systems. The candidate's research will combine economic theory, fine-scale spatial data, empirical evidence and computational modelling to explain trade-offs, synergies and spillovers that remain hidden in single-scale analyses. Relevant research may address at least three of the following fields: agricultural production, labor markets, natural-resource scarcity, food security, climate change, technological change, impacts of demographic transition, social cohesion, resilience of supply chains, environmental policy, and the distributional consequences of sustainability transformations. A key ambition is to move beyond diagnosing unsustainable trajectories towards designing effective and equitable transformation pathways, exploring how policy, innovation and global interconnectedness can reconcile environmental sustainability with food security, livelihoods and economic development. Your profile: The successful candidate holds a strong academic background in economics, agricultural or environmental economics, together with an internationally recognized research record. They have demonstrated expertise in economic theory and quantitative modelling, complemented by experience with spatially explicit data, empirical estimation, computational methods or other approaches capable of linking processes across scales. Additionally, they can translate theoretical concepts into transparent, empirically grounded models and integrate economic analysis with insights and data from other disciplines. Experience in interdisciplinary research on food, land, water, climate, natural resources or related sustainability challenges can be proven by documented participation within interdisciplinary networks and projects. The successful candidate is an intellectually independent researcher with the ambition to build a collaborative,...

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