Postdoctoral Researcher in Political Psychology, Persuasion, and Democratic Attitudes at LMU Munich Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany

LMU Munich is hiring for two PhD positions and one postdoctoral position in a research program on democracy research, political psychology, and computational social science . The positions are part of two DFG-funded projects in Alexander Wuttke’s group: “Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for Democracy” and the Emmy Noether group “Predictably Paradoxical: Mapping the Democratic Mind with AI.” The research combines causal inference , survey experiments , field experiments , LLM-based per...

LMU Munich’s Unit Digitalization and Political Behavior and the Geschwister-Scholl Institute for Political Science are advertising a PhD Researcher position focused on computational text analysis , democratic belief systems , political psychology , persuasion research , and large language models . The project sits at the intersection of political science, psychology, and computational social science. The position connects two DFG-funded projects: Democratic Persuasion: How to Make the Case for D...

Postdoctoral position at the Chair of Digital Governance, Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich School of Politics and Public Policy, affiliated with the Content Moderation Lab (a joint TUM and University of Oxford initiative). The project focuses on content moderation, AI governance, and platform regulation, including fairness and accountability of platform decisions, freedom of speech in the algorithmic age, AI/LLMs in automated moderation, EU Digital Services Act and Section 230 compli...

University of Zurich, Department of Political Science, Gilardi Research Group is advertising a 3-year postdoc (80%) starting January 2027 and running through December 2029 , focused on digital technology and politics . The project emphasizes quantitative methods , computational social science , experimental design , and causal inference . The postdoc will also teach 1.5 classes per semester in English or German and is expected to develop an independent research agenda. Funding includes support f...

Yannis Theocharis, Professor of Digital Governance at the Technical University of Munich, is hiring a postdoc for a 3+2 year full-time position in Munich, Germany . The position sits in the Chair of Digital Governance and focuses on content moderation , platform governance , AI governance , and platform regulation . The post is especially suitable for candidates with a strong quantitative and/or computational social science background. The planned start date is January 2027 , and the application...