Research Professor in Climate, Nature and Resilience Economics

We seek a Research Professor in Climate, Nature and Resilience Economics at Luke to advance research on climate change, biodiversity loss, natural resources, food systems, land use and the bioeconomy through economic modelling.

Global environmental and economic changes such as climate change, biodiversity loss and pressures on natural resource use require societies and value chains to adapt. Environmental, geopolitical and market shocks increasingly disrupt food systems, land use and the bioeconomy. A central question is the form and magnitude of public interventions given the inherent uncertainty of the global economic system: resilient systems need less anticipation; irreversible changes in environmental, market and institutional structures must be anticipated in policy design.

The research analyses multi-objective decision-making in which climate, biodiversity and economic viability objectives interact, developing approaches that identify and quantify trade-offs and synergies, supporting coherent policy across environmental, climate and economic domains. It applies economics to these challenges, formulating problems in a context of uncertainty, making the most of weak data and signals, and applying dynamic, stochastic and other quantitative methods to yield new insights into welfare-maximising coherent policies at national, EU and international levels.

The workplace is located in Helsinki, Oulu or Joensuu.

Please note that the call closes on 28 September 2026 at 4 pm (EEST). Applications submitted after the deadline will not be accepted.

The Research Professor (tenure track: associate or full professor) leads high-level research on the economics of climate change, biodiversity loss and natural resource use, with a focus on food systems, land use and the bioeconomy. You will examine how environmental, geopolitical and market shocks affect sustainable resource use, and how policy, investment and governance can strengthen adaptation and resilience in conditio