Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Housing and Migration in the long run - Ref: 26-16

The Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER)

is recruiting a

Research Associate (Post-doc, f/m) in Housing and Migration in the long run

• Ref : 26-16
• 24 month fixed-term working contract at LISER
• Full-time, 40 hours/week
• Department: Urban Development and Mobility
• Work location: Belval (Luxembourg)
• Deadline to submit applications: May 17th, 2026 at midnight CET

Project description

LISER is looking for a Research Associate (Post-doc) who will play a key role in developing high quality, scientific and policy-relevant work within the Urban Development and Mobility department, in the framework of the FNR-funded P(R)OP2 project – Property Data Meets Population Data in Past and Present: Migration and Property Relations in the Long Run (1910-2024) – a collaboration between the C2DH at the University of Luxembourg and LISER.

The P(R)OP2 project aims to better understand how migrant integration and segregation operate through housing, and whether this has changed over the last hundred years. It departs from the often-neglected fact that migration necessarily entails finding a new place to live and has thus always depended on local property owners making housing for rent or purchase available to migrants. To study this issue, P(R)OP2 brings together historians and social scientists to work with the rich datasets produced over the last decade by the partner research teams (land registry archives, population censuses, migrant arrival sheets, administrative population registers, etc.) for the city of Dudelange, Luxembourg’s fourth biggest city, in the period between 1910 and 2024. The project aims to problematise the common idea that the success or failure of migrants to integrate through housing is due to their choices, behaviours or culture – instead, we focus on how the quantity and quality of housing made available to them sets the context for their actions and possibilities in the host country.

The Urban Development and Mobility department brings together researchers from a number of different disciplines (including geography, economics, sociology, and urban planning) who draw on both quantitative and qualitative methodologies, with a strong spatial analysis component. The department has two research teams: Living with Urban Dynamics, focused on individual behaviors related to flexible living, health & space and urban analytics, and Governance of Urban Dynamics, working on cross-border integration, housing, land & planning and networks of finance. The department offers tailored support for those interested in developing research proposals for competitive funding opportunities. More information on the department can be found here: https://www.liser.lu/fr/urban-development

Your role

In this context, the successful candidate will have the following missions:

• Contribute to the analyses planned in the P(R)OP2 project (migrant integration and segregation through housing in Dudelange for the 1910 to 2024 period) ;
• To produce research outputs in line with the broad scientific interests of researchers in the Urban Development and Mobility department.

Your profile

The successful candidate is expected to have:

• A Ph.D. (or to be close to the completion thereof) in housing studies, geography, urban history, sociology, or other relevant social sciences ;
• Previous research in the field of housing studies, migration studies or urban history as well as a demonstrable social impact in research outputs ;
• Excellent written and oral communication skills in English. Proficiency in French or German will be considered as an asset.

LISER particularly encourage female researchers to apply

What we offer

• A dynamic, stimulating and international research environment with attractive working conditions ;
• Flexibility in the organisation of the working hours and the possibility of teleworking ;
• Competitive remuneration according to the Collective Bargaining Agreement in force (half of a 13th month salary, meal vouchers, etc.) ;
• Investment in career support and development (trainings, seminars, participation to international meetings and conferences) ;
• 32.5 days of annual leave for a full-time contract.

How to apply

Please submit your complete application in English via https://jobs.liser.lu/jobs by including the following documents before May 17th, 2026 :

• Curriculum vitae ;
• Motivation letter ;
• Recent piece of research ;
• Copy of your PhD diploma ;
• Two reference letters (to be uploaded with the application documents or sent separately to recruitment@liser.lu).

Deadline to submit applications: May 17th, 2026 at midnight CET

Would you have any work-related question, please contact Dr Antoine PACCOUD at antoine.paccoud@liser.lu

For administrative matters, please contact Mrs. Vanya KIROVA at recruitment@liser.lu

Why LISER?

LISER is a publicly funded research institute located in Luxembourg and dedicated to applied empirical research in economic, social and spatial sciences. The Institute attracts top researchers from all over the world and high-level student training is a vibrant part of the Institute’s activities. LISER staff consists of approx. 200 employees, about 60% of the staff being researchers; mainly from the fields of economics, geography and sociology. The vision of the institute is to be a socio-economic research institute internationally recognised, focused on scientific excellence and societal impact, able to contribute through multi-disciplinary and intersectoral research, in an active and inclusive way to a sustainable and inclusive society at national and international level.

The institute is located on the new Belval campus in the south of Luxembourg (Cité des Sciences, Luxembourg), which hosts the University of Luxembourg and a substantial part of the country’s publicly funded research facilities, i.e. LISER, the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) cross-national data centre, the Luxembourg institutes of Health (LIH) and of Science and Technology (LIST). Information on research in Luxembourg is accessible via the national EURAXESS platform.

LISER is an Equal Opportunity Employer