08 Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

The person appointed will work on the Synthetic data generation project and the EduTrust AI project in close collaboration with the project coordinators, and on other SLATE projects as needed. The synthetic data generation project aims to create artificial data using deep learning methods and generative AI for scaling up educational data science and providing privacy-preserving solutions for educational data. In EduTrust AI the successful candidate will contribute to the development of the EduTrust repository, including evaluation AI tools. The workplace is in Bergen, Norway.

The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly impacting society, and it is essential to explore various aspects of this technology. While AI offers many opportunities, there are challenges related to how the technology is utilized. AI can be used to promote or generate content that amplifies global disruptions, but it can also introduce new artistic methods and expressions.

Design – particularly visual communication – is especially influenced by AI. In the design field, practitioners should adopt a critical and exploratory approach to the far-reaching implications of artificial intelligence.

We are looking for skilled designers within visual communication who can conduct artistic research related to AI at a high level.

In artistic research at the Department of Design, emphasis is placed on practice that is reflective and process-driven. The candidate will be affiliated with one of the department’s research groups, working alongside colleagues from a broad range of design disciplines.

In the development and production of high-temperature geothermal resources, large, induced gradients in pressure and temperature during injection operations result in complex coupled processes. This includes boiling of geothermal fluids and deformation of the fractured rock, coupled dynamics that are currently not well understood. This provides a core motivation as well as challenging test cases for the mathematical and numerical developments in the MaPSI project. MaPSI has as its main objective to provide mathematical models and simulation technology required to assess subsurface process-structure interaction in the context of hydraulic and thermal stimulation in development and production of high-temperature geothermal resources.

The successful candidate will join the MaPSI-project team and contribute to research activities in the project. Relevant tasks include mathematical modelling, development and implementation of numerical methods, and investigation of cases relevant for understanding processes in the field. Software development will expand on the open-source software framework PorePy (github.com/pmgbergen/porepy), which is being developed in the MaPSI project and already has strong capabilities in modelling of compositional multiphase flow and coupled process-structure interaction in fractured thermo-poroelastic media.

We are looking for a PhD candidate who can carry out artistic research within the framework of one of the department’s research groups in the interdisciplinary environment at the Art Academy. The project must be linked to one of the following research groups: 

• Site – Narrative – Materiality  
• The Agenda Group  
• Unsettling Hierarchies in Art Education  

The PhD education is intended to qualify for artistic research of an international standard and for other work in society where great demands are made for artistic insight and competence in accordance with good academic practice and ethical standards. The project must fall under the subject area of music performance and creative music practice. At the Grieg Academy this subject area covers a variety of musical genres. The Department offers study programmes with BA and MA with study courses including classical, jazz, traditional music and composition. 

The project should have a clear focus on music performance and aim to bring new insight into and a deeper understanding of performative processes. The project needs to have a clear foundation in the competence area of the profiles of the Grieg Academy’s artistic research environment. For the strategic developments in the department, we are particularly interested in projects that can contribute to explore various and innovative methods and formats for documentation of artistic/musical reflection in music performance.

In the research project PROTECT (Protecting child rights and public safety: Premises for the integration of child’s best interest and crime prevention), there is a vacant position as a postdoctoral researcher either in law or in political science.

The postdoctoral position is a temporary position aimed at qualifying for work in top academic positions. A completed doctoral degree is a requirement for employment. The term of the position is three years, and it is expected that the candidate who is hired will reside and work in Bergen. The start date is April 1, 2025, or upon agreement.

PROTECT is a collaboration between the Faculty of Law and the Department of Government. The postdoctoral position is shared between the two units.