Senior Scientist: Transport Energy & Emissions (Hybrid)

VTT; Espoo; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Six weeks paid holidays

Exercise and culture benefits

Hobby clubs

Versatile well-being services

Job summary

VTT invites applications for a Senior Scientist to join the Transport and Mobility team in Espoo, with hybrid work and options to consider Tampere or Oulu. The role focuses on transport energy, emissions, and system-level impact assessment, using data from statistics, fleets and models, and engaging across road and multimodal transport.

The candidate will lead methodologies and projects, collaborate with industry and authorities, and contribute to research and innovation with strong English

Qualifications

• Master’s or Doctoral degree in a suitable field.
• Knowledge and previous experience of transport energy use, emissions and decarbonisation, and understanding of their theoretical background.
• Experience in transport modelling, scenario analysis and impact assessment, preferably related to emission and energy scenarios, uptake of new transport technologies, policy measures, and multimodal transport chains.
• Strong understanding of road transport systems. Experience or knowledge of rail and/or maritime transport is considered an advantage, particularly for analysing emissions, energy use and impacts across multimodal transport and logistics chains.
• Good data analysis and modelling skills, for example using Python, R or similar tools.
• Experience in transport economics, cost-benefit analysis and/or environmental and socioeconomic impact assessment is considered an advantage.
• Previous experience of research and innovation projects.
• Ability to identify customer needs and new opportunities and contribute to proposal preparation, offering development and building new projects with customers and partners.
• Good teamwork and project management skills.
• Good written and spoken English language skills. Proficiency in Finnish is considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Contribute as an active and collaborative member of our research team.
• Develop methodologies, models and analytical tools to assess transport-system impacts of changes in transport energy use, emissions, and related system-level impacts, using data from e.g. transport statistics, vehicle fleets, transport models and traffic simulations.
• Assess the environmental, economic and societal impacts of new transport technologies, services and policy measures, including their costs, benefits and trade-offs.
• Work primarily with road transport while contributing to assessments of multimodal transport covering road, rail, aviation and maritime transport.
• Identify and develop new research and business opportunities, helping translate research and capabilities into customer value and new offerings in transport energy, emissions and system-level impact assessment.
• Act as project manager or work package leader in national and international research and innovation projects and support the work of less experienced colleagues.
• Collaborate with industry, authorities, policymakers and research partners, and communicate research results through reports, peer-reviewed publications and presentations.

Skills

Transport modelling

Python

R

Data analysis

Project management

Education

Master’s or Doctoral degree

Tools

Python

R

Job description

VTT invites applications for a Senior Scientist to join the Transport and Mobility team in Espoo, with hybrid work and options to consider Tampere or Oulu. The role focuses on transport energy, emissions, and system-level impact assessment, using data from statistics, fleets and models, and engaging across road and multimodal transport.

The candidate will lead methodologies and projects, collaborate with industry and authorities, and contribute to research and innovation with strong English