PhD position in Global Trade, Supply Chains and Climate Shocks

Academic Positions • Stockholm, Stockholm County • Posted July 11, 2026

About the Role

PhD position in Global Trade, Supply Chains and Climate Shocks

of ETH Zurichs KOF Swiss Economic Institute is seeking a PhD candidate to study the propagation of weather and climate shocks in quantitative trade network models. The position is part of the National Centre of Competence in Research project Climate Extremes and Society: Strengthening Resilience (NCCR CLIM+). NCCR CLIM+ is a new, interdisciplinary, Switzerland-wide climate research community involving multiple investigators at ETH Zurich and other Swiss institutions.

Job description

  • The project at KOF Lab will center around assessing and promoting the resilience of supply chains by building and solving quantitative global equilibrium models of trade networks.
  • We will use firm-level data to estimate the industry/country-level effects of various weather and climate shocks and input the estimated impacts into the model.
  • To this end, the doctoral candidate wil...