Postdoc in Digital Democracy, Political Science, and Computational Social Science at University of Zurich University of Zurich in Switzerland

PhD position at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG), University of St. Gallen, in AI governance and regulatory foresight . The project examines national AI regulatory portfolios, instrument mixes, predictability of regulatory environments, and early warnings of policy misfit. The doctoral researcher will help develop an openly available dataset, codebook, and an LLM-assisted methodology for analysing EU and national regulation. The position is embedded in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Acti...

PhD opportunity in Political Science at Lund University, Sweden , within the research project “A Divisive Spiral? Elite Communication, Voter Engagement, and Algorithmic Amplification of Affective Polarization.” The project examines how political communication , social-media engagement , algorithmic amplification , and affective polarization interact. It uses a mix of innovative methods, including automated text analysis , audio analysis , experiments , large-scale social-science data , and AI/LL...

Fully funded PhD position on AI, political economy, welfare state politics, and social policy at the University of Lucerne (ZIBR), starting in 2027. The project is part of ERC Starting Grant (Re)distributive Politics after the AI Revolution (REPAIR) . It studies how artificial intelligence is reshaping welfare state politics across OECD countries, including how political actors respond to AI-driven labor market change and which social policies and reforms citizens support. This opening is for a ...

PhD opportunity at EPFL Lausanne: Measurement and modeling of urban verticality in Africa. This full-time PhD position is part of the Vertical Africa: Visualizing Urban Change, Negotiating Power, Designing Sustainable Cities (VERTICAF) project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and hosted at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) . The project is co-led by Professors Didier Péclard and Armelle Choplin (University of Geneva) and Jérôme Chenal (EPFL), in partnership with the...

EPFL’s Policy & Sustainability (PASU) lab in Lausanne is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a new SNSF-funded project on Managing a Just Transition to Net Zero . The project combines economics , public policy , political science , computational social science , and environmental science to study the social and economic consequences of the clean energy transition. Research tasks include measuring economic and job vulnerabilities at the individual and regional level, collecting original survey d...