2 Post-Doc positions in Computational Social Science (TV-L 13, 100%, 4 years)
The GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research and service institution that is part of the Leibniz Association in Germany. It is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal States.
Our research offices in Cologne are seeking candidates to fill
2 Post-Doc positions in Computational Social Science
(TV-L 13, 100%, 4 years)
in collaboration with the Web-Science and Web Technology Institute (WeST) at
University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.
The department for Computational Social Science is looking for candidates with a background in applied mathematics, physics, computer science or related fields and an interest in social phenomena and modeling. Strong programming skills and experience in one or several of the following fields are desirable:
Analysis and mining of web data, social media and/or social streams
Large-scale data processing tools and studies
Machine learning, clustering and classification algorithms and methods
Software and framework development
Social modeling and log mining algorithms and techniques
The candidate is expected to conduct cutting-edge research and to develop services in one or several of the following domains:
Computational social science
Social network analysis, network simulations and diffusion
Web-Science and Web observatories
Data mining and knowledge discovery
The candidates should have completed (or should soon complete) a PhD. The ideal candidate has a demonstrated record of independently designing and conducting research and publishing results in competitive conferences and journals. The open position is intended to serve as a platform for promising young researchers (i) to strengthen and develop their own research profile, (ii) to conduct and publish highly competitive research, (iii) to acquire research grants and (iv) to build and lead their own research group.
GESIS offers an exciting environment for interdisciplinary and competitive research on the intersection between computer- and social sciences. GESIS is a research and service organization that provides a research-driven infrastructure for the social sciences and closely collaborates with computer science and social science departments at top universities in Europe and Northern America. Strong candidates can qualify for extensive allowances for research visits and collaborations with partnering universities. Cologne is a culturally diverse and vibrant city (the 4th largest city in Germany with about 1 Mio. people) in the heart of Europe attracting young and creative people from all over the world.
GESIS guarantees that guidelines regarding employment laws for the disabled and handicapped as well as laws and regulations governing part-time employment will be observed. GESIS is an equal opportunity employer and is certified by the European work & family audit.
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For more information and details, please feel free
to contact Prof. Dr. Markus Strohmaier at
strohmaier@uni-koblenz.de or
markus.strohmaier@gesis.org.
We only process online applications. Please
apply here until the position is filled.
The key number is: CSS-10