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The University of Zurich, Switzerland's largest university, offers a range of attractive positions in various subject areas and professional fields. With around 10,000 employees and 12 professional apprenticeship streams, the University provides an inspiring working environment focused on cutting-edge research and top-class education.

Tasks

  • Develop and validate agent-based policy models representing relevant decision-makers and institutions in EU policy contexts, including the Common Agricultural Policy, Nature Restoration Law, and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
  • Quantify ecological and socio-economic trade-offs among policy options that influence RD, such as land-use intensification versus diversification, restoration investments, and risk-reduction schemes.
  • Parameterise behavioural rules using empirical evidence, literature, and stakeholder input to represent how information, trust, incentives, and resource constraints shape policy responses.
  • Run governance and policy scenarios targeting RD maintenance, for example subsidies for multi-species cropping, mixed-provenance restoration, or age-structured fishery management.
  • Compare outcomes such as ecosystem stability, social equity, cost-effectiveness, and policy feasibility across scales.
  • Produce peer-reviewed publications, policy-relevant outputs, and recommendations for integrating socio-economic realities into RD-based biodiversity policy.
  • Participate actively in ReDiLEEP network training, secondments, dissemination, reporting, and cohort activities.
  • Complete 5 months of planned secondments, including 4 months in non-academic settings, to strengthen the science-policy-practice interface: BioAgora (2 months), ThinkNature (1 month), Advanced Invasives (1 month), Swansea University (1 month).

Requirements

  • A Master's degree, or equivalent, in ecology, environmental science, geography, sustainability science, environmental policy, socio-ecological systems, economics, computational social science, data science, or a closely related field.
  • Strong interest in biodiversity, ecosystem resilience, sustainability policy, and the translation of ecological science into decision-making.
  • Experience with quantitative analysis, modelling, simulation, or programming, preferably in R, Python, NetLogo, Julia, or comparable tools.
  • Interest in agent-based modelling, behavioural modelling, governance scenarios, stakeholder-informed research, or policy analysis.
  • Ability to work independently while contributing constructively to an international, interdisciplinary doctoral network.
  • Excellent written and spoken English and strong scientific writing skills.
  • Experience with EU biodiversity or sustainability policy, spatial modelling, social-science methods, stakeholder engagement, corporate sustainability reporting, or restoration governance is an advantage.
  • Applicants must not already hold a doctoral degree.
  • Applicants must be doctoral candidates and be enrolled, or eligible to be enrolled, in a doctoral programme at the University of Zurich.
  • Applicants must work full-time and exclusively for the ReDiLEEP project during the appointment, in accordance with the applicable MSCA and UZH rules.
  • Applicants must not have resided or carried out their main activity, such as work or studies, in Switzerland for more than 12 months during the 36 months immediately before the recruitment date (exceptions apply for compulsory national service, refugee status, and temporary protection).

Benefits

  • Flexible working models such as part-time positions, mobile working, and job-sharing.
  • Childcare at the kihz foundation of UZH and ETH.
  • Wide range of continuing education courses of UZH and the Canton of Zurich.
  • Language Center run jointly with ETH Zurich.
  • Food and drinks at reduced prices in the UZH cafeterias.
  • Lunch-Check-card with UZH contribution.
  • Special conditions on the Academic Sports Association ASVZ.
  • Free seasonal flu vaccinations.
  • Rest and relaxation at the quiet room in the university tower.
  • Discounts on carsharing, vehicle rental, parking space, hardware, software, and mobile phone subscriptions.
  • Support for people from outside Switzerland through International Services.
  • Gross salary in accordance with the regulations of the Marie Curie Fellowship and UZH salary rates for the last 12 months.
  • Duration: 48 months, full-time.
  • Place of work: University of Zurich, Irchel campus, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Start of employment: Between February 1st and June 30th 2027.
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Die Universität Zürich ist eine öffentliche Universität des Kantons Zürich und bietet Lehre, Forschung und Weiterbildung in einem breiten Spektrum wissenschaftlicher Disziplinen an. Sie umfasst sieben Fakultäten und verbindet akademische Ausbildung mit Grundlagenforschung, angewandter Forschung, Nachwuchsförderung und Wissenstransfer. Die UZH arbeitet mit nationalen und internationalen Hochschulen, Forschungsinstitutionen, Spitälern, Unternehmen und öffentlichen Stellen zusammen und leistet Beiträge in Bereichen wie Medizin, Naturwissenschaften, Wirtschaft, Recht, Gesellschaft, Geisteswissenschaften und Theologie.
Das Team

The successful candidate will join an interdisciplinary cohort of doctoral researchers and benefit from ReDiLEEP training in response diversity methods, data management, reproducible code, R/Tidyverse, machine learning and AI for ecologists, visualisation, evidence-based policymaking, science-policy communication, and policy brief writing.

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