PhD Student/ Postdoc Position in Meta-Science — Universität Bern
NewCHF 68'500 - 104'000
Universität Bern · Bern (BE)
- Location
- Bern
- Contract
- full-time
- Posted
- 2 days ago
SalaryCHF 68'500 - 104'000
Role overview
UniBE is interconnected.
Aufgaben: In this role, you will help drive the next phase of RegCheck's development, leading empirical work on how RegCheck performs in practical settings and shaping where the tool goes next.
- UniBE is interconnected.
- Aufgaben: In this role, you will help drive the next phase of RegCheck's development, leading empirical work on how RegCheck performs in practical settings and shaping where the tool goes next.
- Depending on your interests and strengths, your responsibilities could include:
- Leading studies evaluating RegCheck's usability and real-world performance, including field trials with journals and editorial teams.
- Education: A Master's degree or PhD in Metascience, Psychology, Human-Computer-Interaction, Medicine, Epidemiology, Economics, Research Methods, Statistics, or a related field.
- Technical skills: Working knowledge of R for data management and statistical analysis; an understanding of how LLMs work and experience using them programmatically (e.g. via an API) or a strong willingness to learn.
Main responsibilities
- Depending on your interests and strengths, your responsibilities could include:
- Leading studies evaluating RegCheck's usability and real-world performance, including field trials with journals and editorial teams.
- Developing and testing extensions to RegCheck.
- Contributing to RegCheck's open-source codebase and reproducible analysis pipelines.
- Preparing publications and presenting at international conferences.
- Collaborating on projects connected to RegCheck and optionally co-supervising student projects connected to RegCheck.
- You will build expertise in large language models and metascience as part of our international team, with scope to pursue other collaborative research projects.
- Teaching opportunities are available in English and/or German.
- This position is available as either a Postdoc or PhD position (the postdoc position will be an 18 months contract; the PhD position is an initial 18-month contract, with extensions of up to 4 years in total for the entire PhD).
Key requirements
- Education: A Master's degree or PhD in Metascience, Psychology, Human-Computer-Interaction, Medicine, Epidemiology, Economics, Research Methods, Statistics, or a related field.
- Technical skills: Working knowledge of R for data management and statistical analysis; an understanding of how LLMs work and experience using them programmatically (e.g. via an API) or a strong willingness to learn.
- Research interests: A deep interest in meta-science, open science practices, and trustworthiness assessment/quality management of research.
- Familiarity with the principles of open and reproducible research.
- Language: Strong written and spoken English.
- Availability: While this position is in-person, there is great flexibility in working hours.
- The ideal start date is November 1st. Anforderungen:
- Competitive salary: PhD salary is approximately CHF 50,000 Gross including 13th month (~EUR 54,000 /~USD 63,000).
What the company offers
- With us, you're part of an international community and benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration. International reputation
Application process
- We also offer support for fellowship/grant applications, or developing an independent research line.
- Quality of life: Bern is one of the world's safest cities.
- It is walkable and UNESCO-listed with excellent public transport links, outdoor recreation, and a lively international academic community.
- Switzerland consistently ranks among the top countries in the world for quality of life.
- Our department has experience supporting international hires and has a streamlined process in place for residence permit applications (B-permit).
- Diversity & inclusion: We are committed to building a diverse research group and especially welcome applications from women and people underrepresented in metascience and the computational social sciences.
- We are happy to discuss flexible working and support needs.
Additional details
- The ideal start date is November 1st.
- Note: PhD students in Switzerland hold dual status as both employees and enrolled students; annual student fees are approximately CHF 200. Wir bieten: International reputation
Notes and original content
- PhD students in Switzerland hold dual status as both employees and enrolled students; annual student fees are approximately CHF 200.
- Postdoc salary for an early Postdoc is approximately CHF 91,000 Gross including 13th month (~EUR 98,000 /~USD 111,000).
- Thriving intellectual environment: Bern is fast becoming a hub for metascience, with active metascientists working across psychology, medicine, epidemiology, and economics.
- You would join a community of metascientists within and beyond the university, with strong international connections, and a team that produces cutting edge open-source research tools, and genuinely cares about improving science.
- Career development: Access to training in research methods, scientific writing, and university pedagogy.
- Learning and collaboration opportunities with approximately 10 other researchers, postdocs, and faculty in our research group.
- Teaching experience opportunities are available (in English or German).
- With us, you're part of an international community and benefit from interdisciplinary collaboration.
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