Postdoctoral Position | Center for Adaptive Rationality

The Center for Adaptive Rationality (ARC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, seeks applicants for 1 Postdoctoral Position on LLM Applications to the Behavioral and Social Sciences (E 13 TVöD; 39 hours/week)

The position is for three years and is available from January 1st, 2025, but later start dates are possible.

The Position

The Center for Adaptive Rationality takes an interdisciplinary approach to behavioral and social science. The position is funded through a grant from the German Research Foundation. It focuses on applying (open-source) large language models (LLMs) to research data from the behavioral and social sciences to understand psychological mechanisms and anticipate the generalizability of findings. The goal is to develop LLM-based methods and tools to improve generalizability in these fields. The successful candidate will join the Search and Learning research area headed by Dr. Dirk Wulff.

Your Profile

Applicants should have programming skills in Python or R and an interest in meta-science perspectives on behavioral and social science. Prior experience with natural language processing and (open-source) large language models is desirable. Applicants should also hold or anticipate receiving, as shown in supporting documents, a doctorate in psychology, cognitive science, computer science, or a related field.

Our Offer

The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de) offers an excellent infrastructure, including support staff and state-of-the-art GPU computing clusters. It provides an international and interdisciplinary research environment, with English being the working language of the Center for Adaptive Rationality.

Your Application

The Max Planck Society strives for gender and diversity equality. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such individuals.

We look forward to your application, which should include a cover letter describing your research interests, your CV, relevant certificates, and, if available, a representative preprint or publication. Please submit your application without a photo. All documents should be sent as a single PDF file, with your last name as the file name to ARC Applications, MPI for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin (arc-applications@mpib-berlin.mpg.de), with the subject line “PHD/Postdoctoral Position on LLM Applications to the Behavioral and Social Sciences.” Applications must be submitted by October 13th to ensure consideration. However, review of applications will continue until the position is filled.