05 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Groningen, Netherlands

A fully funded position for a postdoctoral researcher is available at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Groningen (Netherlands). The position is funded by the NWO grant “Gender ratios and power dynamics in mixed-gender teams: Implications for gender inequality in organizations” awarded to prof. Bernard Nijstad (University of Groningen) and prof. Mark van Vugt (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam).

This project will be supervised by prof. Bernard Nijstad (Organizational Behavior), dr. Francesca Giardini (Sociology), prof. Charlotte Hemelrijk (Biology; all: University of Groningen), and prof. Mark van Vugt (psychology, VU Amsterdam). The project is part of a larger project, which also includes two PhD students (one in Groningen, one in Amsterdam).

The effective integration of data and knowledge in HCAI can be based on knowledge representations in the form of ontologies and knowledge graphs, while neuro-symbolic learning can be a powerful mechanism to drive knowledge-infused machine learning. The incorporation of domain knowledge is hardly achievable without the collaboration of multi-stakeholder teams, and therefore a co-creative and evaluative approach to shaping Knowledge-Infused Artificial Intelligence is needed. Your research will therefore be expected to take a multidisciplinary perspective, including both contributions in linked data and knowledge-driven AI, as well as in effective multi-stakeholder co-creative and evaluative approaches to harness domain-relevant expertise and knowledge. Pilot project-use cases will feed into the study and will offer a rich testbed for the validation of the developed approaches.

Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher position within the research project “Polyglot Machines: Human-like Learning of Morphologically Rich Languages”, financed by a NWO-VIDI Talent Grant and coordinated by Principal Investigator (PI) Dr Arianna Bisazza. This is an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of Computational Linguistics/Natural Language Processing (NLP), Computational Psycholinguistics and Language Acquisition.

Despite the impressive advances made possible by neural networks, current NLP systems are still far from displaying the learning abilities of humans in many languages. By contrast, children around the world acquire extremely diverse languages in comparable time spans and from considerably less linguistic input than that required by neural models.

The Environmental Psychology group at the University of Groningen invites applications for a temporal post-doctoral researcher position (2 years). The aim of the project is to investigate which factors affect the acceptability of low carbon lifestyles. The research is funded by the Stevin prize awarded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) to Linda Steg for her pioneering, innovative and socially impactful research (https://www.nwo.nl/prof-dr-linda-steg).

Environmental Psychology at the University of Groningen has a national and international reputation for excellence. Research within the Environmental Psychology group focuses on a wide range of topics, including understanding which factors influence sustainable behaviours (such as energy use, car use, food consumption); understanding how people cope with environmental and climate risks; understanding the effectiveness of strategies to promote sustainable behaviour; understanding the acceptability of environmental policies; and the effects of sustainable behaviour on wellbeing. The research contributes to theory development and to practice. The Environmental Psychology group collaborates with scholars from different disciplines within and outside the University of Groningen, as well as with governments, NGOs, businesses, and organisations.

The group currently consists of two associate professors, three assistant professors, and four PhD students; it accumulates research expertise on modal logic, coalgebra, proof theory, concurrency theory, type systems, programming languages, program logics, and exact algorithms.

Members of the Fundamental Computing group currently collaborate with researchers in multiple international universities, including Imperial College London, University of Oxford, University of Glasgow, and University of Strathclyde, Cornell University, Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Denver, INRIA (France), and MPI-SWS (Germany), to name just a few. The group is active in outreach activities aimed at disseminating the importance of developing correct software using rigorous methods and tools