Job Market Candidates

The UiS School of Business and Law presents the following job market candidates for employment.

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Placement Director: Professor Mari Rege, mari.rege@uis.no

Job Market Candidates 2025/2026

Sufyan Ullah Khan, Postdoctoral Fellow

Sufyan Ullah Khan
Sufyan Ullah Khan

Fields of Interests:

  • Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Energy Economics
  • Ecosystem Services Valuation
  • Agricultural and Applied Economics

Job Market Paper:

"Pharmaceutical and Personal Care Products on the Loose: A Multi-Country Analysis of Citizen Awareness, Behaviors, and Preferences for Emission Reduction"

Supervisor: Professor Gorm Kipperberg

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Fuchen Zhang, Doctoral Research Fellow

Fuchen Zhang
Fuchen Zhang

Fields of interests:

  • Production, technology, and misallocation
  • Environmental economics

Job market paper:

"Misplaced Confidence: Estimating Substitution Structures in Production Functions"

Supervisors: Professor Torfinn Harding and Professor Anders Akermann

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Banovsha Ibishova, Doctoral Research Fellow

Banovsha Ibishova
Banovsha Ibishova

Fields of interests:

  • Sustainable Finance
  • ESG and Corporate Governance
  • Carbon Pricing and Climate Policy
  • Green Bonds and Sustainable Investment

Job market paper:

“Navigating the Green Path: Unveiling the Financial Impact of Green Management”

Supervisors: Professor Bård Misund and Professor Ragnar Tveterås

Jon-Sander Amland, Doctoral Research Fellow

Jon-Sander Amland
Jon-Sander Amland

Fields of interests:

  • Management and Organizational Behavior
  • Labour Economics
  • Personnel Economics
  • Behavioral Economics.

Job market paper:

“Leader Gender and Employee Retention: The Role of Supportive Leadership”

Supervisor: Professor Mari Rege
Co-supervisors: Simone Häckle-Schermer, Hammad Shaikh and Aldijana Bunjak

Recent Placements

2024

  • Guro Hognestad Haaland: Researcher, Stavanger University Hospital
  • Seth Ayisi Junior Addo: PostDoc at Karolinska Institutet - a Medical University
  • Rudresh Pandey: Accosiate Professor at OsloMet
  • Harald Braut: General Practitioner
  • Erika Christie Berle: Senior Manager Deloitte
  • Xian Quan: Researcher/Project Manager, NTNU

2023

  • Eli Svensen, Researcher UiS School of Business and Law
  • Raj Kuma Thapa: Senior Researcher, Nordland Research Institute
  • Jason Deegan: Senior Researcher, NORCE

2022

  • Maximiliaan W.P. Thijssen: Accosiate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Education, Knowledge Centre for Education at the University of Stavanger
  • Andreas Østbø Fidjeland: Associate Professor, Norwegian Centre for Learning Environment and Behavioural Research

2021

  • Murshid M. Ali, Entrepreneur and Founder
  • Saeed Maghadam Saman, Researcher at the Western Norway University of Applied Science
  • Kwadwo Atta-Owusu, Reserahcer NIFU
  • Jonathan Muringani: Researcher at Basic Internet Foundation, UiO
  • Utku Ali Riza Alpaydin: External Funding and Innovation Adviser, University of Stavanger

2020

  • May Linn Auestad: Senior Manager at EY
  • Ana Faia Lopes: Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Denmark
  • Nina Hjertvikrem: Head of the Department of Quality and Health Technology at the University of Stavanger
  • Olaug Øygarden: Senior Researcher at NORCE

2019

  • Silje Haus, Reve: Head of Department of Innovation, Management and Marketing at the UiS School of Business and Law
  • Valeriia Klova: Actuary A.S.R
  • Kjersti Berge Evensen, Associate Professor at BI and UiS School of Business and Law
  • Bjørnar Laurila, Senior Analyst at Sparebank 1 SMN