Assistant Professor in Economics for Global-Local Analysis on Sustainable Devel.(m/f)

Assistant Professor in Economics for Global-Local Analysis on Sustainable Development(Valid from 22/10/2026 to 08/04/2027) Language: English (UK)Location Esch-sur-AlzetteCountry: Luxembourg Organisation data: Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental SystemsJob Number: UOL08556Contract Type: Professorial - PermanentSchedule Type: Full TimeWork Hours 40.0 Hours per WeekExpected Start Date: 01/05/2027 Job Level: MonolevelJob (internal): Assistant ProfessorExpertise: ProfessorsRole Type: Open PositionFunctions: Associate / Assistant ProfessorAbout usThe University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.The Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems strives to grow into an internationally recognised research hub for a sustainable and equitable world. Our goal is to help societies to transition to environmentally friendly and just conditions. At the core is the recognition that global environmental disruptions such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and resource depletion are closely linked with societal systems. To address these complex issues, we take a systemic approach and study the interconnectedness of human activities and the environment. Our mission is to develop sustainable, socially just, and environmentally friendly solutions by bridging disciplines and fostering collaboration between researchers, policymakers, and society. Your roleThe successful candidate will establish and lead 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. A distinctive ambition of the professorship is to develop a multi-scale global–local–global perspective on sustainability by investigating how local decisions by producers, consumers and other actors are shaped by global markets, trade, technology, climate and policy – and how their aggregate effects feedback to landscapes, ecosystems and societies.Consequently, 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...

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