The Department of Communication Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam currently searches for a post-doctoral researcher. This position will be part of a consortium funded by an ERC infrastructure grant (https://opted.eu/). In this project, you will be part of WP7, where we are developing infrastructure and tools for multilingual text analysis, dealing with various interesting challenges such as integrating data sets from various sources, dealing with proprietary and/or private data, and building tooling for dealing with various European languages.
What makes this position special is that you are developing tools within a large project that is eager to use and disseminate those tools. There are also many opportunities for learning new technologies within the team and through outside courses. We are strongly committed to open source and open science.
In this position you will be embedded in the Computational Communication Science & Political Communication research group at the department of Communication Science. Female and minority candidates are particularly encouraged to apply as we strive for optimal diversity in our team.
Your duties
- develop tools and infrastructure in the OPTED project
- maintain server infrastructure
- communicate with (prospective) users to make sure tools are optimally designed and used
- present progress (verbally and written) to the project leadership