Postdoctoral Researcher Digital Media And Politics)S - C050

.Detalles del empleoTipo de empleo:Jornada completaContrato en prácticasUbicación: Barcelona, Barcelona provinciaDescripción completa del empleoJob Reference: 539_24_DIR_CSS_R2Position: Postdoctoral researcher Digital Media and Politics (R2) - AI4SClosing Date: Tuesday, 01 October, 2024About BSC: The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress.We are particularly interested in the strengths and lived experiences of women and underrepresented groups to help us avoid perpetuating biases and oversights in science and IT research. In instances of equal merit, the incorporation of the under-represented sex will be favoured.Context And Mission: The Computational Social Science and Humanities program envisions preparing the social sciences and humanities for the era of data, artificial intelligence (AI), and Exascale supercomputing. Our mission is to foster collaboration between social scientists and computer scientists, making high-performance computing (HPC) accessible to all researchers in the field.Key Duties:Conduct original research on the impact of digital media use on political attitudes, cognitions and behaviors.Coordination and assistance of data collection and analysis.Guiding other team members in applying computational methods to their grants proposals and research papers.Leadership in writing grant proposal applications and co-authorship and lead authorship of research papers.Assistance in team coordination and PhD supervision.Communication of projects' results in conferences and workshops.Organization of expert workshops, conferences, seminars.Collaboration with members from other departments and disciplines will be encouraged.Requirements:Education: PhD in the social sciences or computational (social) science.Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience: Experience in quantitative empirical analysis and computational methods, familiarity with online experiments, machine learning and text analysis, network analysis, agent-based modeling.Some experience in collecting online behavioral data.Some experience in analyzing and integrating large datasets from diverse sources.Programming skills and eagerness to work in multiple languages.Interest in researching social media use and public opinion.Willingness to move to Barcelona and eagerness to travel internationally.Conditions:The position will be located at BSC within the Computational Social Sciences Department.We offer a full-time contract (37.5h/week), a good working environment, and a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure.Duration: 4 years.Salary: 45.000,00€