Student Research Assistant for Sustainable Consumption

10%-30%, Zurich, fixed-term

The Centre for Energy Policy and Economics (CEPE) at ETH Zurich is seeking a student research assistant to work on the project ‘Sustainable Consumption’. The objective of this project is to identify factors that impact sustainable consumption.

Job description

The student will assist in searching data sources and assembling a database. They will work closely with the research team on the following activities:

Writing scripts for the automated collection and cleaning of data, and organizing it into a database
Computing simple statistics
Preparing graphical representations
Testing surveys.

Profile

Enrollment as a student at ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich in a relevant field, such as computer science, engineering, economics and mathematics
Intermediate coding skills in R, Stata, or Python
Basic knowledge of databases (i.e., SQL) and JavaScript language is a plus

Workplace

We offer

Starting in July or August and continuing until December 2025 with possibility to extend.
The anticipated workload per week may vary between 4 and 10 hours, hourly wage.

You’ll have a workplace in our offices in the ZUE building (D-MTEC, Zurichbergstrasse 18).

Working, teaching and research at ETH Zurich

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Curious? So are we.

We look forward to receiving your application email at rwellauer@ethz.ch with the following documents:

CV
Transcript of Records
Letter of Motivation

Further information about the Chair of Energy and Public Economics can be found on our website. For further information, please contact Ms. Ricarda Wellauer at rwellauer@ethz.ch.

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