PhD Students in Circular Economy and Climate Change Resilience
ETH Zurich · MTEC - Department of Management, Technology, and Economics
The Group for Circular Economy within the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich investigates the role that technological innovations, policy interventions, and business strategies play in transitioning towards a sustainable circular economy. To expand our research on circular transition pathways we are looking for: 2 PhD Students in Circular Economy and Value Chain Resilience for Decarbonisation and Climate Adaptation (100%). The PhD is embedded in the consortium project, which investigates how to tackle less-easy-to and hard-to-abate greenhouse gas emissions in Switzerland. Your research will focus on understanding the role of circular economy measures in reducing emissions across challenging sectors, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, and waste treatment. Building on this, you will combine qualitative and quantitative methods to assess the implementation of circular economy measures from firm-level, policy, and value-chain perspectives, examining adoption pathways, policy requirements, and how these measures create new intersectoral linkages and reshape material flows. The supports Switzerland in the transformation towards a climate-resilient society. Together with stakeholders, the interdisciplinary NCCR CLIM+ research community tackles unexplored solution spaces to the climate crisis and develops a blueprint for actionable climate research worldwide. NCCR CLIM+ broadly communicates and shares knowledge, and trains a new generation of experts with the necessary domain and transdisciplinary knowledge. Your research will focus on understanding how climate-induced disruptions, such as supply chain shocks, raw material shortages, or infrastructure failures, drive lasting structural changes in firms, industries, and policy. You will combine qualitative and quantitative methods to analyse historical and contemporary cases of industry restructuring in response to climate and environmental shocks, and develop forward-looking scenarios…