Sd-26141 Phd Student In Consumption-Based Foot-Printing Of Competitiveness Policies

About this position

You will be embedded in the SUSTAIN unit at LIST and enrolled as a doctoral candidate at the University of Luxembourg. You will work closely with a diverse cohort of 12 PhD researchers across the social, economic, and environmental sciences, contributing to a shared research agenda on how Luxembourg can thrive within its fair share of planetary limits

You will be mainly in charge of:

• Conducting a systematic review and critical assessment of existing multiregional input-output (MRIO) analysis based projection methods and demand-side modelling approaches (taxation/subsidies, bans, income elasticities, rebound effects)
• Developing a methodological framework for the prospective quantification of environmental impacts of policy scenarios, integrating input-output analysis, scenario modelling, and micro-economic methods
• Applying the framework to Luxembourg and the Greater Region under a range of beyond-growth and climate policy scenarios (e.g. carbon fee-and-dividend schemes, ICE phase-out, 4-day workweek, housing construction codes, mobility subsidies), producing quantitative footprint estimates at territorial scale
• Building and maintaining an open, modular, Python-based policy toolbox enabling the testing of individual and combined policy measures and their environmental outcomes across all relevant planetary boundary dimensions
• Collaborating with other C-SOS doctoral researchers — in particular those working on social foundation and economic systems — to ensure that policy scenarios are grounded in socially realistic and economically coherent assumptions
• Publishing results in peer-reviewed journals and presenting at international conferences
• Contributing to C-SOS training activities, workshops, and stakeholder engagement events