Senior Transport -Energy Modelling Expert - Climate Policy Focus

<h2>Overview</h2> <p><strong></strong></p> <p><strong>Role: </strong>Senior Transport-Energy Modelling Expert - Climate Policy Focus</p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>Athens, Greece - Hybrid </p> <p><strong>Role ID:</strong> 2025-2969</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.</strong></p> <p>Ricardo plc is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>About Us</strong> </p> <p>Our Digital Modelling Practice is a cornerstone of our Climate, Energy &amp; Environmental Services (CE&amp;ES) division, delivering complex quantitative modeling and impactful economic insights across Europe and the world. We are a team of world-class researchers and modellers dedicated to addressing the most pressing economic and environmental challenges of our time. Our contributions are featured in IPCC reports, published in top-tier scientific journals, and frequently peer-reviewed at the highest level. At the same time, we provide high-end evidence-based support to national and international organizations.</p> <p>The successful candidate will contribute to the advancement of quantitative<strong> transport modelling</strong>, working directly with integrated energy-transport models such as PRIMES and PRIMES-TREMOVE. This role supports research and development activities focused on simulating transport demand, analysing energy use in mobility systems, and evaluating the impact of transport policies on decarbonisation pathways.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Data Collection &amp; Analysis</strong>: Source, structure, and maintain large-scale datasets from scientific, technical, and market domains related to transport activity, vehicle technologies, energy consumption, emissions, and socioeconomic indicators.</li> <li><strong>Demand Modelling</strong>: Apply and adapt transport demand modelling techniques within the PRIMES modelling suite, focusing on vehicle stock evolution, modal shifts, and behavioural responses to policy interventions.</li> <li><strong>Scenario Assessment</strong>: Interpret model outputs by examining causal mechanisms, identifying key drivers and trends in transport systems, and communicating insights through visualisation tools and written reports.</li> <li><strong>Tool Enhancement</strong>: Operate, calibrate, and further develop specific modules of our transport modelling frameworks, ensuring technical robustness and consistency with established modelling protocols.</li> <li><strong>Policy Integration</strong>: Translate real-world transport operations into quantitative modelling components that assess the effects of decarbonisation policies, infrastructure planning, and vehicle technology regulations.</li> <li><strong>Innovation &amp; Methodology</strong>: Propose and test new modelling strategies, including behavioural modelling, multi-modal networks, and interlinkages with land use and energy systems to enhance the predictive power and transparency of transport analysis</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Key Competencies and Experience</strong></p> <ul> <li>Hold an MSc and/or PhD in engineering, applied mathematics, computational modelling, operations research, mathematical economics, or physics.</li> <li>Proven experience in energy systems modelling, mathematical programming, optimization, transport economics, and related quantitative methods.</li> <li>Skilled in quantitative modelling, with experience developing models and scenarios, particularly related to transport systems or modes.</li> <li>Proficient in using analytical and modelling tools, with programming knowledge in R, Visual Basic, Python, Matlab, C, or preferably GAMS.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, consistently meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality results.</li> <li>Strong writing skills, with experience in academic articles, technical reports, or policy reports in English (desirable).</li> <li>Advanced MS Office skills, particularly in Excel.</li> <li>Fluent in verbal and written communication in English.</li> <li>Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset, with a collaborative attitude and eagerness to learn.</li> <li>Ability to work independently and as part of a project team to deliver high-quality work.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Working here</strong></p> <p>You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place.</p> <p> </p> <p>We will encourage yo