<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif";min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:large">The project </span><i><font size="4">Optimal Strategies in Networked Labour Markets </font></i><span style="font-size:large">at the Center for Humans and Machines, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is seeking applications for a </span><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif";min-height:14px"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4">Postdoctoral Research Position </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4">(E 13 TVöD; 39 hours/week) </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><br></font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">Funding for the postdoctoral position is available for two years. The position is available from 1 January, 2020, or later. </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4"><br></font></b></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4">Job Description </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">The <i>Machines and the Future of Work </i>project (PI: Dr. Alex Rutherford) investigates <i>Optimal Strategies in Networked Labour Markets</i>. The postdoc will work closely with the CHM director Prof. Iyad Rahwan, and with the principal investigator of the Machines and the Future of Work theme, Dr. Alex Rutherford. </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><br></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">Future research will advance research into how individual skills retraining can protect workers from the negative effects of automation. We expect that the post-doctoral researcher will undertake novel research into the network structure of skills and jobs, possible strategies for navigating this network through retraining and implications for the workforce as a whole. </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">The successful candidate may supervise students who assist him/her during data analysis and data collection. There are no formal teaching requirements. The project is part of the Center for Humans and Machines (director: Iyad Rahwan) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development (MPIB) in Berlin. </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><br></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4">Requirements </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">We are searching a postdoc with a strong interest and established expertise in computational modelling and data analysis of social systems. </font></p><p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><br></font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4">Required Experience </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>PhD in computer science, physics, applied maths, economics or related fields. </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Network analysis (e.g. modularity, path length, diameter, assortativity) </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Graph algorithms (e.g. greedy search, depth first search) </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Data science (data cleaning and munging using e.g. pandas, numpy, scipy) </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Network simulation in Python/R (e.g. graph-tool, networkX, igraph) </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Previous publications in interdisciplinary journals (PLoS One/EPJ Data Science) </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><b><font size="4">Highly Desirable Experience </font></b></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Preparing manuscripts for publication in interdisciplinary and high impact journals (e.g. Nature/Science) </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Analytic methods (e.g. differential equations, evolutionary game theory) </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Use of quantitative methods to model social systems </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>Monte-Carlo simulation </font></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4"><span style="font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">- </span>High performance computing </font></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. </font><span style="font-size:large">Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. </span></p>
<p style="margin:0px;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;font-family:"Agfa Rotis Sans Serif""><font size="4">To apply, please send (as ONE FILE and via email) a statement of research interests, a CV, a copy of relevant certificates, (p)reprints of two publications, and a list of two references to Dr. Alex Rutherford, MPI for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin (<a href="mailto:sekrahwan@mpib-berlin.mpg.de" target="_blank">sekrahwan@mpib-berlin.mpg.de</a>) Receiving of applications will continue until the position is filled and evaluation of applicants will start on a first-come-first-serve basis. </font></p></div></div>