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Ph.D. Agricult. EconomicsThe professorship for “Governance in International Agribusiness” affiliated with the TUM School of Management and the TUM School of Life Sciences offers a Ph.D. position in Agricultural Economics (f/m/d) on the Freising-Weihenstephan Campus (start September 2026). Initial appointment will be 2 years with the possibility of extension. Salary is in accordance with the Collective Agreement for the Civil Service of the Länder (TV-L E13) (75%). TU MünchenGermany30-06-2026
Ph.D. Climate Co-CentreThis scholarship is part of the Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water, a €41 million cross-border research programme launched in 2024. This project aims to develop an integrated framework to evaluate the environmental, economic, and resilience impacts of sustainability measures in beef production systems. The research will combine Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) with farm systems modelling to provide a holistic assessment of mitigation and adaptation strategies.University College Dublin and Agri-Food and Biosciences InstituteIreland and Northern Ireland14-05-2026
PhD in ECORISK RTGPhD on "Participatory Interventions to Foster Cooperation in the Face of Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk": focuses on participatory governance arrangements and capacities to overcome collective-action challenges among heterogeneous stakeholders. Specifically, it seeks to (co-)design a suitable participatory intervention for bridging social distance/polarization and promoting collective action skills in a context of sustainable agriculture/food systems, supervise its implementation and assess it.Osnabrueck UniversityGermany30-04-2026
PhD in ECORISK RTGPhD "Regime Shifts and Human Behavior in Agricultural Systems": an experimental and behavioral economic study on the suitability of various agri-environmental policy instruments for regulating farmer behaviour under uncertainty and systemic risk will be carried out. The subproject B1b uses a behavioral economic lens to evaluate a set of agri-environmental policy instruments both theoretically and empirically with an economic experiment.Osnabrueck UniversityGermany30-04-2026
Research associateResearch associate in Resource economics with research interests in environmental governance, stakeholder deliberation, and game theory ZHAW Zurich University of Applied SciencesSwitzerland30-04-2026