3 Postdoc positions

Three postdoctoral positions in computational social science are available with dual appointments at Northeastern and Harvard Universities, to work in the lab of David Lazer. Candidates will be expected to work on a combination of their own research and collaborative projects within the lab. The collaborative projects are wide ranging, including experimental data on interaction patterns and group performance, large scale, society-spanning communication data, social media data, political contribution data, and large corpora of unstructured political text. Key conceptual foci will range from understanding societal networks, to collaboration in groups and organizations, to political communication and collective action.

A wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds will be considered (current/past disciplines represented in the lab include computer science, communication, organizational behavior, psychology, physics, design, economics and political science) but facility with handling and analysis of large data sets, a taste for novelty, and an interest in working collaboratively across disciplines a must. Additional skills of particular relevance include: advanced statistics (especially network related), and experience with experimental research. Compensation will be competitive. The positions are fully funded, and length of appointment is expected to be 18-24 months.

_Contact_:
If you are interested, please send a cover letter, CV, and two letters of reference to: m.lee@neu.edu by September 21 (note new deadline).

Questions should be sent to David Lazer at d.lazer@neu.edu or david_lazer@harvard.edu. Please label application materials with POSTDOC APPLICATION: firstname lastname.

David Lazer

• Professor of Political Science and Computer Science, Northeastern University
• Director, Northeastern Center for Computational Social Science (NECSS)
• Director, Program on Networked Governance, Harvard Kennedy School

• davidlazer.com
• twitter.com/davidlazer
• blogs.iq.harvard.edu/netgov/
• scholar.google.com/citations?user=gMndACUAAAAJ&hl=en
• www.researchgate.net/profile/David_Lazer/