Organisation/Company: Ecole Normale Supérieure
Research Field: Economics
Researcher Profile: First Stage Researcher (R1), Recognised Researcher (R2), Established Researcher (R3)
Positions: PhD Positions
Country: France
Application Deadline: 4 Dec 2025 - 12:30 (Europe/Paris)
Type of Contract: Temporary
Job Status: Full-time
Hours Per Week: 37.5
Offer Starting Date: 1 Feb 2025
Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme
Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description The Space Chair at ENS-PSL expands its research team with the recruitment of a post-doc in Economy.
Work environment and research topics:
First axis: diversification of uses of outer space, evolution of representations of space, in particular in connection with these new uses (commercial, military, scientific, etc).
Second axis: how can we conceive of space as a "territory or common good" for humanity, and what are the resulting tensions? The Chair is particularly interested in the following double tension: tension between the ambition of a common good and the logic of commercial appropriation (of natural resources and of space as a circulation zone); tension between the ambition of a common good and the use of space as a stake and lever of sovereignty. In other words, how can we ensure that space emerges as a common good, in the economic and legal sense, in the face of, on the one hand, the multiplication of private uses of space and, on the other, the ambitions of states?
Third axis: What contribution can space make to preserving the planet? And what sustainable uses of space?
The post-doc is expected to contribute to the third axis of research of the Chair, in particular by developing research on sustainable pathways for development of human activities in the Earth's orbital space.
Where to apply E-mail: ******
Requirements Research Field: Economics
Education Level: PhD or equivalent
Skills/Qualifications:
Candidate profile:
Candidates must hold a PhD (or have one by January 2024 at the latest) in economics or other disciplines or another relevant academic field for contribution to the third axis.
Please note: Candidates may, but need not, have already worked on research topics related to space. The Chair is also intended to encourage researchers to take space as a new field of study.
Ability to work within a multidisciplinary project is expected.
Duration: 2 years – Full time
Contract start date: From February 2025
Salary (gross salary): Between 3012 and 3580 euros depending on which year the PhD was obtained.
The post-doc will work in Paris, at the Ecole normale supérieure. The Space Chair offices are located on the ENS rue d'Ulm campus, in the fifth arrondissement of Paris, with prospects for collaboration with members of the Paris School of Economics.
Application materials:
a short research project (5 to 8 pages maximum) describing how you will contribute to the work of the Chair and the suitability of your profile.
two letters of recommendation.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited by December 4, 2024 for a visio audition to be held during the week of December 9, 2024.
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