Postdoctoral Position

Postdoctoral Position

(fulltime, Salary Scale E 13 TV-L, 2 years)

Reference Number 2022/144. We invite applications for a postdoctoral position funded by the Cluster of Excellence “The Politics of Inequality” for a duration of 24 months starting in September 2022. In principle this position can be divided into two part-time positions. The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007, it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy. We are an interdisciplinary team composed of Juhi Kulshrestha (Jun. Prof. of Computational Social Science), Peter Selb (Prof. of Survey Methodology), Nils Weidmann (Prof. of Comparative Politics of Non-democratic States), Andreas Spitz (Jun. Prof. of Data and Information Mining), and our external partner Denis Bonnay (Associate Prof. of Philosophy, Universite Paris Nanterre). We seek a postdoctoral researcher to join our project that focuses on examining online information seeking for making policy judgements. By combining passive observation of real world web browsing traces with surveys and incentivized experimental tasks, we aim to understand how inequities in the online information consumption and seeking behavior lead to inequities in political knowledge and judgment about welfare policy proposals. Interested candidates may contact Jun. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Juhi Kulshrestha, juhi.kulshrestha@uni-konstanz.de for further information. Please submit your application (compiled as a single PDF) by August 6th 2022 via our Online Application Portal. The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme (https://www.uni-konstanz.de/en/equalopportunities/family/dual-career/). Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact + 49 7531 884016).