[agents] 3-Year Research Fellowship in Social Networks for Social Good, University of Warwick

[Turrini, Paolo]

3-Year Research Fellowship in Social Networks for Social Good.

University of Warwick, UK.

Status: Full-time, Fixed-term, September 2023 start.

Grade 6: Salary in the range of £33,348-£43,155 depending on experience and qualifications.

Closing dates for applications: May 16th, 2023.

Interviews of shortlisted applicants: May 26th, 2023.

Call link: https://tinyurl.com/socialnetworksforsocialgood

This is a 3-year Postdoctoral Fellow role within the project “Promoting Social Good Using Social Networks”, led by Dr. Paolo Turrini (https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~pturrini/) and funded by the Leverhulme Trust.  The project studies the conditions under which social networks promote desirable social behaviour, integrating theoretical analysis, computer-aided simulations and experiments with humans. Your job is to undertake cutting edge research in the project areas, with the aim of publishing the results in leading conferences and journals.

Based in the Computer Science Department of the University of Warwick and within the multi-agent systems research group, you will be collaborating with Dr Paolo Turrini (Computer Science, Warwick), Professor Thomas Hills (Psychology, Warwick), Dr Fernando P. Santos (Computer Science, University of Amsterdam) and Dr Giulia Andrighetto (Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, Italian National Research Council). You will be expected to work closely with the PI and the project partners, remotely and with research visits to Amsterdam and Rome, as well as with masters and PhD students tackling related challenges.

You will have the unique opportunity to work on theoretical models that are backed by real-world experiments and use them to make accurate predictions about human behaviour. The project will investigate the properties of partner selection and decision-making in dynamic social networks, generalising classical evolutionary game theory models and working towards reconciling seemingly contradictory experimental findings. The aim of the research is to establish the conditions on the network dynamics such that ​``social good" – understood as cooperation in an underlying public goods game - will emerge and stabilise even in complex and highly dynamic environments.

We seek candidates with proven ability in research and evidence of top-quality research output in one or more of these research areas: graph theory; algorithmic game theory; evolutionary game theory; behavioural game theory; multiagent reinforcement learning; social network analysis.

Warwick has one of the leading Computer Science departments in the UK (ranked 4th in the 2021 and 2nd in the 2014 Research Excellence Framework) with a highly regarded research and teaching culture. The Department is particularly well-known for its research in algorithms and their applications, including algorithmic game theory and graph theory, which are directly relevant to this project. Warwick has excellent relevant expertise inside and outside the CS Department, particularly Psychology, Economics, Statistics and applied Mathematics. We are one of the stakeholders of the Alan Turing institute, the UK institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

We particularly welcome applications from underrepresented minorities. All applicants will be judged on merit, according to the specified criteria.

You should apply by submitting, with your application form, a CV, including a list of publications, a research statement, and a short statement highlighting your suitability for this post.

For a full description of the project and your duties, as well as the application link, please consult the link below.

https://tinyurl.com/socialnetworksforsocialgood

To find out more or arrange an informal conversation about the role, please contact: Dr. Paolo Turrini (P.Turrini at warwick.ac.uk).

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