Post-doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer (OPTIMA)

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At the VU FSW Societal Analytics Lab, we are looking for a Post-doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer to join our team to work on the development of OPTIMA: the Observatory for Political Texts, Images, and Multimedia.

Researchers working with digital traces are at a crossroads. While the digital age offers unprecedented access to multimodal data, copyright restrictions and privacy concerns often make that data impossible to share. OPTIMA is a 2-year project funded to solve this. Building on the software prototypes AmCAT and AnnoTinder, OPTIMA creates a collaborative infrastructure for securely storing, sharing, analyzing, and enriching multimodal data—making them as open as possible, and as closed as necessary.

As a Post-doctoral Researcher or Research Engineer on this project, you will bridge the gap between infrastructure development and social scientific research. In order to build a real-world infrastructure th...