项目介绍

2025年1月16日

The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in developing cutting-edge research, collaborating with Professor Graeber and his co-author network at Harvard and throughout Europe. His current and planned empirical research investigates how complexity influences behavior in real-world applications including finance, consumer choice, and political behavior. The work heavily relies on online and field experiments, analysis of natural language data, and AI applications such as synthetic experiments with LLM agents.

Your responsibilities

All tasks involve data and require strong coding skills. We hire up to two predocs and tailor each predoc’s responsibilities to their background and personal goals. For example, a candidate with strong CS background might primarily work on synthetic experiments. The predoc’s duties include a selection of the below:

• Designing and implementing choice experiments.
• Analyzing survey, observational, textual and speech data.
• Artificial intelligence applications, such as synthetic experiments using LLM techniques.
• Contributing to the development of theoretical frameworks for behavioral phenomona.

Your profile

Master’s degree in economics, statistics, computer science, mathematics, quantitative sciences, or a related field.

• Strong programming skills (Python is required; some knowledge of R or Stata desirable).
• Strong project management and communication skills in spoken and written English.
• Some experience with natural language processing, large language models or other machine-learning experience desirable (but not required).
• Prior experience as research assistant desirable.

Join a dynamic international research team and the Zurich predoc program.

• Opportunities to acquire skills necessary to conduct independent research.
• Support during your PhD application process or non-academic job search.
• A competitive salary in line with University of Zurich standards.

Information on your application

Application: Please submit your application (including cover letter, CV, transcript of grades, at least one letter of recommendation). Applications will be reviewed as they are received and we welcome applications until positions are filled.

Job start: This position has a flexible start date between June and October 2025. The appointment will be for one year and may be extended by one additional year.

Further Information: Thomas Graeber is currently a professor at Harvard Business School and will join the University of Zurich as the NOMIS Chair of Cognitive and Neuroeconomics in summer 2025.

Further information

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