Postdoctoral Fellow: Meta-Research & Open Science

Carnegie Mellon University; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Bus pass

Family concierge

Fitness center

Job summary

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries seeks a Postdoctoral Associate in Meta-Research to develop a research and teaching agenda in meta-research, evidence synthesis, and open science. The role balances 50% research and 50% teaching/community-building, collaborating across CMU units to advance transparent and reproducible research practices.

The successful candidate will lead open science initiatives, teach workshops on evidence synthesis, and contribute to living evidence syntheses using open

Qualifications

• Ph.D. in a STEM or social science discipline.
• Strong interest in building an open science community across disciplinary boundaries and advancing the quality and rigor of research and open scholarship.
• Familiarity with or interest in learning about evidence synthesis and/or bibliometrics methods.
• Experience with coding and programming in R or Python.
• Enthusiasm for working collaboratively with library personnel on research projects, instructional design, and developing services.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research in meta-research and open science, including evidence synthesis and computational methods.
• Teach workshops and develop curriculum on topics like LLM-assisted evidence synthesis and open source tools.
• Serve on organizing committees for open science events and a meta-research hackathon in 2027.
• Assist in outreach for the Libraries' Evidence Synthesis Program and support research tools such as Sysrev and OpenAlex.
• Contribute to international research communities with posters or talks on open synthesis and meta-research.

Skills

Academic research

Teaching

Open science

Evidence synthesis

R/Python

Git/GitHub

Jupyter Notebook

Docker

Collaboration

Education

Ph.D. in STEM or social science

Tools

Git/GitHub

Jupyter Notebook

Binder

Docker

Open Science Framework

Sysrev

OpenAlex

Job description

Carnegie Mellon University Libraries seeks a Postdoctoral Associate in Meta-Research to develop a research and teaching agenda in meta-research, evidence synthesis, and open science. The role balances 50% research and 50% teaching/community-building, collaborating across CMU units to advance transparent and reproducible research practices.

The successful candidate will lead open science initiatives, teach workshops on evidence synthesis, and contribute to living evidence syntheses using open