Position 2: Junior Excellence Chairs in Computational Social Sciences
(five years) at PSL university (Paris).


PSL University (Paris) is inviting applications for a a five years
Junior Excellence Chairs in computational social science inside the
CultureLab project.

The applicant's research should focus on the development and
application of computational methods to analyse social and contemporary
data. The successful candidate will have a background in sociology,
computational social sciences, or a related field, and will develop a
research program to answer questions of wide relevance to our
contemporary cultures and societies, in relation with several (or all)
of the program axes (see below). They will also be involved in the
development of new algorithms and techniques for processing and
analysing large-scale datasets of social and contemporary data, such as
texts and images from websites, social media platforms etc. Beyond
natively digital sources, the candidate will be expected to integrate
non-natively digital sources (i.e. digitised sources) to its analysis,
to put contemporary data into a longer-term perspective (e.g., from the
industrial revolution to our days). The successful candidate will also
be expected to collaborate with other researchers on the project to
integrate these computational methods with decision support tools and
research-society interfaces, and to use these methods to inform
decision-making and promote social impact.

This position is part of a PSL-funded project, "CultureLab", which aims
to fund computational research in the humanities and social sciences
across all relevant PSL labs. The postdoctoral will have privileged
access to CultureLab resources (research engineers, computational
resources, PhD or master student grants, etc.).


The main project axis are:

Axis 1: Harvesting and annotating large scale cultural datasets,
        from texts to images

Axis 2: A theory-driven approach to computational humanities and
        social sciences

Axis 3: Inferring historical & social processes from data across
        timescales

Axis 4: Social impact through computational analysis of culture and
        heritage data

The position's duration is five years. The salary is competitive and
comes with a package of 40,000 euros for research funding. The
candidates must be early career researchers, either about to obtain
their PhD or having obtained it between 2020 and now. Starting date
will be in Autumn 2025 or thereabout.

PSL University, consistently ranked among the top 50 universities
worldwide, is an interdisciplinary research university built on a
collegial model. PSL partner institutions include the École Normale
Supérieure and the École des Chartes.


Contact:

Jean-Baptiste Camps Jean-Baptiste.Camps@chartes.psl.eu

Olivier Morin olivier.morin@ens.psl.eu


Please send:

-   A resume with a list of publications
    (maximum two A4 pages);

-   A research statement and description of the project
    (maximum two A4 pages);

-   Contact information for two senior scientists who agree to
    recommend you.


The deadline for applications is November 15, 2024.


PSL University
60, rue Mazarine, Paris
https://www.psl.eu/