About the position
There is a PhD position for 3 years available at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management – Section Managerial Economics, Finance and Operation Research. The position is resident at NTNUs campus in Trondheim. This is an educational position, which will provide promising research recruits the opportunity for professional development through studies towards a PhD-degree. The position is connected to the PhD program at the Faculty of Economics and Management and the faculty will be your employer.
The mission of Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management is to carry out education and research activities at a high international level in the intersection between technology/natural sciences and business economics, management, and HSE to promote sustainable value creation in technology-based areas in industry, business, and public sector organizations in Norway.
Project Description
This PhD position is part of the newly funded VISTA Centre for Norwegian Transformative Energy Policy Development (NOTRAP) (https://www.ntnu.edu/notrap), which will operate from 2025 to 2029. The center develops Energy Policy Incubators (EPIs) to co-create transformative, context-sensitive energy policies together with policymakers, industry stakeholders, citizens, and researchers.
NOTRAP is a cooperation between eight departments from four different NTNU faculties, and will house eight PhD students to be recruited in 2025, in the fields of design, psychology, sociology, social anthropology, economics and political sciences. This vacancy concerns one of these eight PhD positions and is allocated to the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management.
Within NOTRAP, the IØT department contributes with macroeconomic and environmental policy analysis through the application of the REMES-Norway CGE model. The PhD project will contribute to the economic and environmental assessment of policy scenarios developed in the EPIs, focusing on macroeconomic analysis, and the labor market and environmental impacts of energy policies.
For this position, we aim to recruit a PhD student who will contribute to the project by addressing the following research questions:
• How do energy transition policies affect different socio-economic groups and regions, and what are the implications for energy justice and policy acceptability?
• How can macroeconomic insights be effectively integrated into participatory co-creation activities within the Energy Policy Incubators (EPIs)?
• To what extent do behavioral and efficiency-based policies trigger rebound effects, and how can policy design mitigate these unintended consequences?
The candidate will work closely with a cross-disciplinary research team and will contribute to the development of policy-relevant outputs, such as policy briefs, academic publications, and stakeholder workshops.
Practicalities related to the position
The candidate will be based at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management and have access to co-working facilities shared with other NOTRAP PhD candidates at the Department of Psychology. The primary supervisor will be Dr. Paolo Pisciella (Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management), with co-supervision from Associate Professor Pedro Crespo Del Granado (Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management), and Professor Colin Green (Department of Economics) depending on the candidate’s profile and interests.
Required selection criteria
• The qualification requirement is completion of a master’s degree or second degree (equivalent to 120 credits) in Economics, Optimization, Econometrics, or related disciplines. Applicants should have a strong academic background with a grade of B or better in terms of NTNU’s grading scale. Applicants with no letter grades from previous studies must have an equally good academic foundation.
• Strong background in quantitative economic analysis.
• Fluency in English (written and oral).
Preferred selection criteria
• Experience in applied macroeconomic modeling.
• Experience with CGE models or similar tools.
• Familiarity with the Norwegian or European energy policy context.
• Interest in policy co-creation, stakeholder engagement, and sustainability transitions.
• Knowledge of a Scandinavian language is an advantage but not a requirement.
Please read more here: https://www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-stillinger/stilling/280442
Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management
IØT has challenging and inspiring educational programmes and research projects in the cross-disciplinary field of technology management. Through its programmes of study, IØT educates candidates with a solid technological basis in methodology and theory on how to develop and manage technologically based organisations.
Participation in, and development of, research projects in close co-operation with Norwegian industry, the department is also developing models, tools and methods for how to manage Norwegian industry.
