9 January 2025

Hiring Teaching Assistant Professor

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Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen (UCPH), Denmark, invites applications for a four-year position as a Teaching Assistant Professor in the M.Sc. programme in Social Data Science (SDS). The position is to be filled by 1 May 2025, or as soon as possible thereafter.

The degree programme in Social Data Science (SDS) combines state-of-the-art data science techniques, including machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing with core anthropological, economic, political science, psychological, and sociological theories and methods to equip students with the competences to identify, assess, and solve societal and business problems in the digital age. Read more about the programme here: https://studies.ku.dk/masters/social-data-science/.

The Teaching Assistant Professor will be employed and placed at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), where the SDS programme is hosted. SODAS is an interdisciplinary research center situated at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The center includes about 40 researchers across different levels and with different scientific backgrounds and offers a supportive and international research environment. The SODAS community has strong collaborative relationships with all departments at the Faculty of Social Sciences, as well as internationally renowned research groups and centers at other institutions in the Copenhagen area and beyond.

The employment is a full-time position for a duration of four years, 37 hours per week. 

To learn more about the position and how to apply, see the full job posting here.

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