[UCR_DataScience] Fw: Postdoc positions

[Kevin M Esterling]

Dear data science list,

Please circulate this postdoc position announcement to your interested PhD students.  This is a great and interesting data science position, and David has an excellent track record of placing his postdocs in industry and academia. See below.

Best,
Kevin



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From: david lazer <davelazer at gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 6:25 AM
Subject: Postdoc positions


Looking for postdocs interested in the internet and democracy! please circulate!

David


JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Postdoc positions at the Lazer Lab at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. The postdoc position will involve working on a variety of computational social science projects, with a particular focus on internet-based behaviors and the role that the internet plays in the functioning of US democracy. Responsibilities include leading the writing of academic papers; managing data collection and curation; helping supervise doctoral students.

Must have a Ph.D. or equivalent; be able to undertake full-time research or scholarship; interest in working with a senior scholar. Relevant disciplines include computer and information science, political science, communication, psychology, sociology, and economics, among others. Successful candidate(s) must have some (but need not have all) of the following: computational skills to work with complex data; applied statistical skills; experience in developing surveys and analyzing resulting data; demonstrated interest around social media, auditing online algorithms, and studying the interplay of online behaviors and politics more generally; demonstrated ability to develop theory-driven research questions to produce academic publications.

Applicants should send Resume and Cover Letter, as well as a list of 3 references, to: j.briceno at northeastern.edu<mailto:j.briceno at northeastern.edu>. Consideration of applications will begin January 5, 2023.

David Lazer (pronounced Lazar)
he/him/his

Fernand Braudel Fellow, European Union Institute, 2022
University Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
Visiting Scholar, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
Director of the Lazer Lab<https://lazerlab.net/> (pronounced Laser)
Co-founder, Volunteer Science<https://volunteerscience.com/>, a behavioral research lab in the cloud

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