PhD Position 100% – AI Governance & Regulatory Foresight (m/w/d)

Universität St.Gallen; Sankt Gallen; Vor Ort; CHF 60.000 - 75.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

International mobility

Network training

Intersectoral secondment

Zusammenfassung

The Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG) at Universität St.Gallen invites applications for a doctoral position within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network REGULAIRE. You will join an international cohort and work on AI governance, law and technology, with intersectoral secondments.

Responsibilities include analyzing regulatory portfolios, developing open datasets, and preparing your doctoral thesis under expert supervision, with opportunities for training and network-wide

Qualifikationen

• : Master’s degree completed by start date.
• : Experience with policy analysis and data handling.
• : Ability to work in English and collaborate internationally.

Aufgaben

• Analyse national AI regulatory portfolios and instrument mixes.
• Develop openly available dataset, codebook, and LLM-assisted method.
• Create regulatory sensing framework and guidance for learning capacities.
• Refine research questions with supervision; prepare ethics and open-science materials; complete thesis.
• Participate in MSC-DN REGULAIRE training, reviews, dissemination, and seminars.

Kenntnisse

Comparative policy analysis

Computational text analysis

Qualitative assessment

English proficiency

Ausbildung

Master's degree in law, economics, data science, or related field

Tools

LLM-assisted methods

Jobbeschreibung

The Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG) conducts research at the interface of law (tax law and public law) and business (corporate governance, reporting and tax & trade). www.ile.unisg.ch.

We offer

• A doctoral position within the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network REGULAIRE, with an international cohort of 15 doctoral candidates across ten European universities.
• Cross-institutional supervision, network-wide methods training, three residential summer schools, monthly paper development seminars and practitioner engagement.
• A stimulating interdisciplinary research environment at the University of St.Gallen with opportunities to contribute to national and international research and policy networks.
• A planned three-month intersectoral secondment as part of the doctoral project.
• The opportunity to complete a doctoral thesis and develop an independent research profile in AI governance, law and technology, and regulatory learning.

Documents

Motivation letter; CV; academic credentials/transcripts; at least two reference letters; a short research proposal engaging with the doctoral project.

Your tasks

• Analyse national AI regulatory portfolios as combinations of policy measures, focusing on instrument mixes, predictability of regulatory environments, and conditions under which regulatory adaptation creates early warnings of policy misfit.
• Work with the available datasets and develop an openly available dataset, codebook and LLM-assisted methodology for analysing EU and national regulation.
• Develop a methodology and framework for regulatory problem sensing and translate findings into guidance for building regulatory learning capacities.
• Refine the research questions and design with the supervision team; prepare ethics, data-management and open-science materials; complete a doctoral thesis and related publications.
• Participate in MSC-DN REGULAIRE training, network reviews, dissemination, practitioner engagement, summer schools and monthly paper development seminars.

Secondment

Within the position, a secondment to a partner organization is planned.

Supervision

Primary supervision by Prof. Aurelia Tamò-Larrieux (HSG), co-supervision by Prof. Sebastian Schwemer (BI Norwegian Business School), plus a sectoral mentor at the secondment host.

Your profile

• Master's degree (or equivalent qualification giving access to doctoral studies at the Unviersity of St. Gallen) in law, economics, data science, or a related social science/interdisciplinary field, completed by the start date.
• Skills or demonstrable interest in comparative policy analysis, computational or LLM-assisted text analysis, and qualitative assessment.
• Strong interest in AI governance, law and technology, and interdisciplinary research.
• Excellent written and spoken English; reliable, independent and analytical working style.
• Willingness to engage in international mobility and network-wide activities, including the planned secondment.
• Fulfillment of the doctoral admission requirements of the University of St.Gallen and the MSCA eligibility conditions.

Eligibility

• Applicants may be of any nationality and must not hold a doctoral degree at the start of MSCA employment.
• Applicants must comply with the MSCA mobility rule: they must not have resided or carried out their main activity in Switzerland for more than 12 months during the 36 months immediately preceding the start date (subject to the standard MSCA exclusions).
• Applicants must be eligible for timely enrolment in the relevant doctoral programme at the University of St.Gallen.

"A place where knowledge is created" - As one of Europe's leading universities of economics and business administration, the University of St.Gallen (HSG), Switzerland, is committed to the education of over 10'000 students. The HSG is one of the largest employers in the region and provides an attractive and innovative environment for more than 3'800 researchers, educators and professional staff.