Postdoctoral Researcher for Socio-economic and Environmental Impact Modelling of Circular Technologies

Are you an aspiring researcher with an interest in environmental science? And are you eager to understand how to make carbon capture and circular processes more sustainable? Then join the Radboud Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences as a postdoctoral researcher! 

You will conduct multi-regional input-output modelling to look into the potential generation of shared economic, social and environmental benefits of shifting to novel symbiotic processes to produce valuable products from waste gasses. The research will be performed in close collaboration with the Strategic Business Analysis unit of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and is embedded in the EU H2020 project INITIATE, which focuses on innovative industrial transformation of the steel and chemical industries in Europe. You will carry out research on sectors important for carbon capture utilisation and storage, such as the chemical industry and steel sector. Included in the modelling should be the environmental emissions and subsequent environmental impacts, as well as economic and social impacts. You will therefore work with environmental extensions in input-output modelling.

• It concerns an employment for 0.8 - 1.0 FTE.
• The gross monthly salary amounts to a minimum of €3,226 and a maximum of €5,090 based on a 38-hour working week, depending on previous education and number of years of relevant work experience (salary scale 10).
• You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
• It concerns a temporary employment for 12 months with possible extension to 21 months.
• You will be able to use our Dual Career and Family Care Services. Our Dual Career and Family Care Officer can assist you with family-related support, help your partner or spouse prepare for the local labour market, provide customized support in their search for employment and help your family settle in Nijmegen.
• Working for us means getting extra days off. In case of full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the legally allotted 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

The main focus of the Environmental Science group of the Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences is on quantifying, understanding and predicting human impacts on the environment, to provide high-quality scientific knowledge that can help the world move towards greater sustainability. To this end, we employ a variety of research methods, including process-based modelling, meta-analyses, field studies and lab work. In our research we cover multiple pressures, species and spatial scales, searching for overarching principles that can ultimately be applied to better underpin environmental management and biodiversity conservation. This enables us to explore and develop wide-ranging sustainable solutions for the environmental challenges the world faces today. RIBES as such is internationally unique, as its research encompasses three major groups of organisms (microorganisms, plants and animals) and spans nearly all levels of biological organisation. In addition to developing world-class research, the institute is dedicated to first-rate education in its Biology BSc, MSc and international PhD programmes.

This postdoctoral position will involve close collaboration with TNO, the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research. TNO aims to ensure that the knowledge it develops, integrates and applies has real social and economic impact. The TNO research group in Economics, part of TNO’s Strategic Business Analysis unit, is one of Europe's leading research groups on the topic of environment, innovation and sustainability. Its main area of competence is economic analysis and modelling based on a vast array of databases, including the global input-output dataset of the EXIOPOL, CREEA and DESIRE research projects (EXIOBASE). Our modelling tools include input-output (IO) and computable general equilibrium (CGE) models, as well as sectoral and macro-econometric models (e.g. EXIOMOD). The Economics team works with clients at national and international levels in the areas of regional innovation and environmental and economic policy impact assessment.



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