Postdoc: AI-Driven Political Language & Data Analytics

Syddansk Universitet; Odense; On-site; DKK 420,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

The Digital Democracy Centre at Odense, Denmark, seeks Computational Political Communication Postdoc(s) to advance research on AI-influenced political language and discourse. The project embeds postdocs in an interdisciplinary team at SDU with emphasis on rigorous computational methods and broad dissemination.

Applicants should hold a PhD and have strong expertise in computational social sciences, ML, NLP, and data analysis.

Qualifications

• Research profile grounded in computational methods to answer social science questions.
• Experience with text-as-data or natural language processing is a plus.
• Interest in large language models and their use in digital communication.

Responsibilities

• Involved in all aspects of the research from conception to publication and dissemination.
• Collaborate with interdisciplinary project team and external scholars.
• Translate technical details across disciplines and communicate results in English (Danish/German a plus).

Skills

Computational social sciences

Machine learning

Data science

R

Python

Education

PhD degree

Job description

The Digital Democracy Centre at Odense, Denmark, seeks Computational Political Communication Postdoc(s) to advance research on AI-influenced political language and discourse. The project embeds postdocs in an interdisciplinary team at SDU with emphasis on rigorous computational methods and broad dissemination.

Applicants should hold a PhD and have strong expertise in computational social sciences, ML, NLP, and data analysis.