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

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

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

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

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