PhD Position in Social Data Science on Digital Influence Operations and Online Manipulation Economy Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in Netherlands

PhD opportunity in social data science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam , linked to Jon Roozenbeek’s Vidi project, The economy of digital influence operations . The project studies the market infrastructure behind influence operations in online environments, including the buying and selling of fake accounts, engagement, and bot services. The successful candidate will work on a fully funded four-year PhD and investigate the “online manipulation economy” through a mix of interviews with key actors ...

PhD position at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) on assessing private climate change adaptation effectiveness and limits . This project is part of the European ADELE initiative and focuses on policy-relevant research on climate change adaptation , especially the effectiveness of private household adaptation across different European contexts. The work combines survey development , data analysis , and agent-based modeling (ABM) to study how households adapt to climate-induced hazards and...

Postdoc position in detecting cognitive strategies in EEG data at the University of Groningen , Faculty of Science and Engineering, in collaboration with Utrecht University . This project focuses on EEG , cognitive strategies , computational cognitive neuroscience , and machine learning . The goal is to detect cognitive operations in single-trial EEG data using the HMP method, label those operations, and train transformer models to predict sequences of cognitive events in unseen data. The work a...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is recruiting a Postdoc for a 3-year project on Nihilistic Violent Extremist (NVE) groups . The position is based in the Faculty of Behavioural and Movement Sciences and is part of an NWO-funded proposal. The project combines criminology , psychology , and data science to study radical online groups, especially adolescents and young adults, and to analyze large volumes of social media data using quantitative and statistical methods. The postdoc will map the literatur...

PhD position in Neuroscience at the University of Groningen (Groningen, Netherlands) focused on understanding how patterns of neural activity give rise to behavior. The project combines miniaturized calcium imaging , RFID tracking , multi-camera recordings, deep-learning-based behavioral analysis, computational analysis of neural population activity, stereotaxic surgery, pharmacological manipulations, and histology. You will study freely behaving mice across environments ranging from standardize...