The candidate should have a strong background in agricultural and environmental economics, quantitative methods including survey based research and experimental economics.

The research team is composed by three experienced agricultural economists, namely Roberta Raffaelli (full professor), Simone Cerroni (associate professor), and Sandra Notaro (associate professor), and two environmental economists (Carlo Fezzi and Michela Faccioli). They have extensive experience in carrying out discrete choice experiments (both in field and online) and economic experiments in the lab. The team is deeply involved in the PhD program in Sustainability: Economics, Environment, Management and Society (SUSTEEMS). It is an interdisciplinary doctoral program which addresses the complex issue of sustainability form an economic, environmental, and managerial point of view. This PhD program involves economists, agricultural economists, engineers, professors in business and management, jurists, and a sociologist. This program offers to PhD students 300 hours of advanced courses and a stimulating and supporting environment for carrying out their research. The Department of Economics and Management also hosts the Cognitive and Experimental Economics Laboratory (CEEL). CEEL is an interdisciplinary research hub, involving scientific competences from economics, cognitive psychology, consumer and business research. CEEL provides a computer network of 24 terminals located in isolated cubicles. Ad-hoc software solutions are adopted to design and run the experiments. 12 cubicles are also endowed with a system to collect physiological measures like galvanic skin response. The latter is measured via the BIOPAC MP 160. CEEL also employs a lab technician who oversees all lab-related activities. In the CEEL the PhD students can design and carry out economic experiments.