Jobs and positions

tuomo · March 10, 2024, 6:47pm

Hey everyone,

I’m looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in digital humanities to my ERC-funded project “A Foundation for Empirical Multimodality Research”, starting in September 2024 or as agreed. The project is based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

In addition to interest in multimodality, the appointee should have previous experience in developing structured representations for diverse forms of data. Previous experience or interest in crowdsourcing or citizen science is considered a benefit.

For more details, please see the announcement: Post-doctoral researcher in digital humanities

If you have any questions about the position, feel free to send me a DM. You can also find my e-mail address in the announcement above.

Best,
Dr. Tuomo Hiippala
Associate Professor in English Language and Digital Humanities
University of Helsinki, Finland

melvin.wevers · April 10, 2024, 1:34pm

There will be four Ph.D. positions at the University of Amsterdam relating to AI, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage.

ptinits · July 25, 2024, 10:19am

Post doc job(s) available for text and data mining and social history / sustainability transitions. Thank you for sharing the offer in potentially interested circles.

The project “The Crisis and Transformation of Industrial Modernity, 1900-2055”, is a five-year project at the University of Tartu. It is based on the Deep Transitions framework which theorizes industrialization as a long-term co-evolution of various socio-technical systems.

Website: https://www.deeptransitions.ut.ee/
Job description: Jobs
Job call PDF: http://tiny.cc/dt_postdoc_call_2024

1,5 FTE available for jobs. Some flexibility in workload and work location based on the exact focus. Contact laur.kanger@ut.ee for more details.

Thank you for sharing!

Peeter

IzaRomanowska · September 10, 2024, 8:41am

Some good news from Aarhus, Denmark!

We have launched a new lab and are advertising four positions (see below). The Social Resilience Lab’s vision ties our research lines to where we think archaeology and history really need to pull some weight in the future: the resilience of social networks and urban systems to shocks and stresses like climate change, pandemics and conflict. In particular, the 2 year postdoctoral position in urban data indexes heavily on data management and analysis and it goes over into history so it would be appropriate for DH folks who are not archaeologists by training.

We offer fantastic working conditions both in terms of formal arrangements (well-paid position, 30 days of holidays a year, healthcare, pension, and all the other perks of living in socialist heaven) and soft conditions - a great lab atmosphere, a big team of nerds, career development packages, very generous travel budget, etc.

Always happy to answer any questions about the lab and the positions. You are welcome to get in touch with the lab PIs for any questions about the positions or the lab’s work: Iza Romanowska (iromanowska@cas.au.dk) and Tom Brughmans (t.b@cas.au.dk).

Please note the short deadline: 18th September.

We are delighted to launch the new Social Resilience Lab at Aarhus University - a fresh and dynamic research group whose aim is to leverage historical and archaeological data to explore the sources of resilience across a vast range of past and present societies against stresses (e.g. climate change) and shocks (e.g. conflict, natural disasters, pandemics). The lab is a working environment in which all of its members can thrive, upholding values such as work-life balance, kindness, putting people over product.

Current projects include the emergence of monetization in early Medieval Scandinavia (DFF SCEATTAS), the long-term development of urban systems (ERC MODELCITY), the development of new methods for archaeological network research (VILLUM ROMNET) and for participatory democracy (HORIZON EUROPE), and the Past Social Networks Project (Carlsberg Foundation).

We are currently advertising four positions in the lab (deadlines 15-18 September):

4-year Assistant Professor in archaeological simulation:

https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/assistant-professorship-in-archaeological-simulation-at-the-social-resilience-lab-department-of-culture-cognition-and-computation-aarhus-university

2-year urban data analysis Postdoc:

https://www.au.dk/om/stillinger/job/postdoctoral-position-in-archaeological-urban-data-analysis-at-the-social-resilience-lab-department-of-culture-cognition-and-computation-aarhus-university

We also have two more positions that you can find on the AU websites.

22-month network analysis Postdoc
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jeri.elizabeth · September 18, 2024, 7:41pm

The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton is looking to hire a Research Software Engineer (RSE)! Interest in Data Visualization and machine learning would be great!

For details, see: https://main-princeton.icims.com/jobs/19738/research-software-engineer-ii/job

andreasvc · September 27, 2024, 8:40am

PhD position (4y) on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage

The Computational Linguistics group (GroNLP) of the Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG) is looking for a PhD student in “Language technology for cultural heritage: New discoveries with little data” within the HAICu research project. The HAICu project is a large-scale Dutch research project by universities and cultural-heritage institutions into new forms of Artificial Intelligence-based access to multimodal Cultural-Heritage data, both contemporary and historical. Within HAICu, AI researchers, Digital Humanities researchers and a wide range of public and private partners will co-develop scientific solutions to unlock the true societal potential of the current heterogeneous digital heritage collections. It will provide easier, richer and more reliable data access to citizens, journalists, civic organisations, and various other stakeholders.

HAICu is funded by the NWO National Science Agenda (NWA) and has a budget of about EUR 10 million. HAICu has started in January 2024 and will last 6 years (until Jan 2030).
For more information about HAICu, please see https://www.haicu.science/

The PhD Project

This specific PhD position is about effectively dealing with missing and sparse labels in humanities datasets such as literature, history, philosophy. Cultural heritage institutions, and especially the National Library of the Netherlands, offer access to a lot of digitized data which can be leveraged through computational approaches. However, it is very common that the data is incomplete. This is a challenge for typical machine learning methods that rely on being fed with representative and complete data, leading to systems that cannot handle distribution shifts or extrapolating beyond their training set.

Recent developments in artificial intelligence have shown that large language models are able to learn from small amounts of training data, or even none at all (few shot and zero shot learning). Paired with more and more accessible techniques for specializing existing models for target domains and tasks, a lot of new possibilities open up for cultural heritage data, which will be explored within this project. Examples of possible topics include

Investigating literary reception and prestige over time.
Detecting and mapping intertextuality within texts.
Uncovering the influences and biases over time in datasets.
Monitoring the evolution of concepts in textual datasets.
Improving the robustness of models to out-of-distribution data.

The project will, in collaboration with the National Library of The Netherlands, be coordinated by Andreas van Cranenburgh, Tommaso Caselli, and Malvina Nissim at the University of Groningen. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (NLP) and the humanities.

For more information, see PhD in HAICu: Language technology for cultural heritage 1.0 FTE (V24.0458) | Job opportunities | University of Groningen

tuomo · September 27, 2024, 8:57am

Hi again,

I’m looking to hire a post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities to my ERC-funded project “A Foundation for Empirical Multimodality Research”, starting in January 2025 or as agreed. The project is based at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

In addition to an interest in multimodality, the appointee should have previous experience in information retrieval and/or working with knowledge graphs.

For more details, please see the announcement: Post-doctoral researcher in computer science or digital humanities

If you have any questions about the position, feel free to send me a DM. You can also find my e-mail address in the announcement above.

Best,
Dr. Tuomo Hiippala
Professor of English Language and Digital Humanities
University of Helsinki, Finland

mxp · November 9, 2024, 7:18pm

The Department of Language and Information Sciences in the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) invites applications for a position of

graduate assistant in computer science for the humanities
(assistant·e diplômé·e en informatique pour les sciences humaines)

This is an 80% doctoral position for a maximum of 5 years, starting February 1, 2025.
The application deadline is December 8, 2024.

Offical job posting (in French) and application link

A good knowledge of French is required (you don’t have to be a native speaker, but you should be comfortable teaching in French).

For further information, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Giovanni1085 · November 28, 2024, 8:37am

We invite applications for a postdoctoral position in Machine Learning with a focus on Large Language Models and Generative AI applications in the Humanities, available from April 1st, 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position is a fixed term position for 2 years.

Scope
The postdoc will join Professor Giovanni Colavizza at the Department of Communication and the Centre for Digital and Computational Humanities at the University of Copenhagen. The postdoc is to lead in the research, development, and evaluation of novel AI applications in support of Humanities research. The focus will be on applications developed using the latest Large Language Models (LLMs) and Generative AI techniques. The specific topic is left open to match the interests of the researcher. Topics of interest include:

Pushing the boundary in the automatic text recognition of printed and handwritten primary sources using LLMs.
Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) applications, for example to support sifting and better understanding scholarly literature, and for reliably querying large collections of primary sources.
Agent orchestration systems to query cultural heritage collections across the endpoints of different organizations and their collections.
Automatic metadata generation for the fast indexation of cultural heritage artefacts, primary and secondary sources.
Developing benchmarks and probing what LLMs know about Humanities knowledge and cultural heritage.

Every application poses distinct challenges and open research questions. Therefore, a significant component of research and development is expected. Furthermore, emphasis is put on the evaluation of results (e.g., by developing novel benchmarks) and the open-source publication of the outcomes. The candidates are encouraged to state their preferred topics and/or propose their own topics of interest.

Tasks and responsibilities
You are expected to:

conduct independent research on any of the above topics, drawing on approaches from Machine Learning/AI, Digital/Computational Humanities, and relevant Humanities disciplines;
publish and present research results in leading international conferences and journals;
participate in the Centre for Digital and Computational Humanities activities and other relevant networks.

This position is fully focused on research, there will be no teaching obligations.

Salary and terms of employment
Terms of appointment and salary will be in accordance with an agreement between the Ministry of Finance and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations (AC). The salary range starts at DKK 38,576 (EUR 5,213) + a 17,1 % contribution to the pension scheme. The salary can be negotiated based on qualifications. It is also possible to negotiate salary supplements on an annual basis.

Additional information about the position can be obtained from Professor Giovanni Colavizza, email: colavizza@hum.ku.dk.

Deadline for applications: January 5th, 2025. Please apply via the portal: Postdoctoral position in Machine Learning for the Humanities at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Olga · November 28, 2024, 10:30am

2 Junior Excellence Chairs Positions available for September 2025 at Université Paris Sciences et Lettres

Position 1: Junior Excellence Chairs in Computational Humanities (five years) at PSL university (Paris) - CultureLab team

PSL University (Paris) is inviting applications for a five years Junior Excellence Chairs in computational humanities inside the CultureLab project.

The applicant’s research will focus on the development and application of computational methods to analyse cultural and historical data, with a focus on materials predating the industrial revolution and on human sciences questions. The successful candidate will have a background in digital humanities, computer science, cultural evolution, or a related field. Their research project will deal with the long-term evolution of cultures and societies, and will concern several (or all) of the program axes (see below). They will also be involved in developing new algorithms and techniques for processing and analysing large-scale datasets of cultural data, such as texts or images from historical periods. They will be expected to collaborate with other PSL researchers on the project to integrate these computational methods with other approaches, such as document-based modelling of historical and social processes, and to use these methods to test hypotheses and make predictions about the long-term evolution of cultures and societies.

This position is part of a PSL-funded project, “CultureLab”, which aims to fund computational research in the humanities and social sciences across all relevant PSL labs. The postdoctoral will have priority access to CultureLab resources (research engineers, comptuational resources, PhD or master student grants, etc.).

The main project axis are:

Axis 1: Harvesting and annotating large scale cultural datasets, from texts to images

Axis 2: A theory-driven approach to computational humanities and social sciences

Axis 3: Inferring historical & social processes from data across timescales

Axis 4: Social impact through computational analysis of culture and heritage data

The position’s duration is fiveyears. The salary is competitive and comes with a package of 40,000 euros for research funding. The candidates must be early career researchers, either about to obtain their PhD or having obtained it between 2020 and now. Starting date will be in Autumn 2025 or thereabout.

PSL University, consistently ranked among the top 50 universities worldwide, is an interdisciplinary research university built on a collegial model. PSL partner institutions include the École Normale Supérieure and the École des Chartes.

Contact:

Jean-Baptiste Camps Jean-Baptiste.Camps@chartes.psl.eu

Olivier Morin olivier.morin@ens.psl.eu

Please send:

A resume with a list of publications (maximum two A4 pages);
A research statement and description of the project (maximum two A4 pages);
Contact information for two senior scientists who agree to recommend you.

The deadline for applications is November 15, 2024.

PSL University

60, rue Mazarine, Paris

Position 2: Junior Excellence Chairs in Computational Social Sciences (five years) at PSL university (Paris).

PSL University (Paris) is inviting applications for a a five years Junior Excellence Chairs in computational social science inside the CultureLab project.

The applicant’s research should focus on the development and application of computational methods to analyse social and contemporary data. The successful candidate will have a background in sociology, computational social sciences, or a related field, and will develop a research program to answer questions of wide relevance to our contemporary cultures and societies, in relation with several (or all) of the program axes (see below). They will also be involved in the development of new algorithms and techniques for processing and analysing large-scale datasets of social and contemporary data, such as texts and images from websites, social media platforms etc. Beyond natively digital sources, the candidate will be expected to integrate non-natively digital sources (i.e. digitised sources) to its analysis, to put contemporary data into a longer-term perspective (e.g., from the industrial revolution to our days). The successful candidate will also be expected to collaborate with other researchers on the project to integrate these computational methods with decision support tools and research-society interfaces, and to use these methods to inform decision-making and promote social impact.

This position is part of a PSL-funded project, “CultureLab”, which aims to fund computational research in the humanities and social sciences across all relevant PSL labs. The postdoctoral will have privileged access to CultureLab resources (research engineers, computational resources, PhD or master student grants, etc.).