Postdoc – Crowd Psychology & Collective Dynamics

Your Job:

As a postdoctoral researcher, you will play a central role in the further development of social psychological research approaches and the integration of the results within CrowdING. You will develop your own research focus, support conceptual work, and contribute to scientific coordination within the project.
Your responsibilities include:

• Further development and integration of social psychological approaches to the analysis of crowd dynamics
  
• Scientific support for a doctoral project
  
• Collaboration in the planning, implementation, and analysis of crowd experiments
  
• Publication of research results in international journals
  
• Presentations at international conferences and participation in project workshops in Wuppertal and Groningen (NL)
  
• Exchange and close cooperation with partners from physics, computer science, and social psychology

Your Profile:

• Completed master`s degree followed by a doctorate in psychology, cognitive science or in a similar field of study
  
• Research experience in the areas of crowds or group dynamics
  
• Interest in collaborating with colleagues from the field of physics
  
• Enjoyment of combining and expanding methodological approaches and developing new measures or models
  
• Willingness to collaborate with doctoral students and interest in scientific supervision of doctoral students
  
• Very good written and spoken English
  
• Independent, creative, and structured scientific approach with motivation to set your own research priorities within the project
  
• Desirable skills, but not essential: Initial experience with agent-based modeling, Programming skills

Our Offer:

We work on highly topical, socially relevant issues and offer you the opportunity to actively shape change! You can expect a wide range of opportunities:

• MEANINGFUL TASKS: The position offers a varied and diverse role in an international environment and freedom to pursue your own research ideas within the project context
  
• KNOWLEDGE & FURTHER TRAINING: Your further development is important to us – we offer a structured research environment with excellent opportunities for scientific advancement
  
• WORK-LIFE BALANCE: Optimal conditions for balancing work and private life, as well as a family-friendly company policy. The option of flexible working (in terms of location) is generally available after consultation and in accordance with upcoming tasks and (on-site) appointments
  
• FLEXIBILITY: Flexible working time models, including options close to full-time ( https://go.fzj.de/near-full-time ), allow you to customize your working hours.
  
• VACATION: You will receive 30 days of holiday plus free bridge days (e.g., between Christmas and New Year).
  
• FAIR REMUNERATION: Depending on your existing qualifications and the tasks assigned to you, you will be classified in pay grade 13 of the TVöD-Bund (German federal civil service pay scale). All information on the TVöD-Bund collective agreement can be found on the BMI website: https://go.fzj.de/bmi.tvoed. The monthly salaries in euros can be found on page 69 of the PDF download.
  
• PERSPECTIVE: After a 3-year fixed-term contract, our goal is to retain you for the long term. Let`s use this time together to find out how well we fit together.
  

In addition to exciting tasks and a collegial working environment, we offer you much more: https://go.fzj.de/benefits

We welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds, e.g. in terms of age, gender, disability, sexual orientation / identity, and social, ethnic and religious origin. A diverse and inclusive working environment with equal opportunities in which everyone can realize their potential is important to us.

The following links provide further information on diversity and equal opportunities: https://go.fzj.de/equality and on specific support options for women: https://go.fzj.de/womens-job-journey