PhD fellowship in Cropping systems and Climate Change

Your job

Are you passionate about shaping the future of circular agriculture? Are you excited about exploring and quantifying the sustainability of bio-based business models? Then join us to embark on an exciting PhD journey filled with research, collaboration, and meaningful impact.

The Business Economics Group at Wageningen University is looking for a PhD student to contribute to their research on the sustainability impact assessment for replicable and scalable fair business models in the bio-based economy. The position is part of the EU financed C4B project which aims to conceptualise and promote diverse forms of cooperation among primary producers and suitable business models to create high-value bio-based products in vertically integrated value chains.

Your activities will include:

• Assessing the economic feasibility and the social and environmental sustainability of investments in different biorefinery concepts;
• Developing a multi-criteria decision analysis framework for assessing the integrated environmental-social-economic sustainability of different biorefinery concepts.