Postdoctoral Researcher in Labor Market

**Job Reference**: - 535_24_DIR_CSS_R2**Position**: - Postdoctoral Researcher in Labor Market (R2) - AI4S**Closing Date**: - Sunday, 20 October, 2024**Reference**: 535_24_DIR_CSS_R2**Job title**: Postdoctoral Researcher in Labor Market (R2) - AI4S**About BSC** - The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain. It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe. The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress. BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over 1000 staff from 60 countries. Look at the BSC experience: BSC-CNS YouTube Channel Let's stay connected with BSC Folks We promote Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, fostering an environment where each and every one of us is appreciated for who we are, regardless of our differences.**Context And Mission** In our pursuit, we focus on a wide range of key societal research areas such as Population and Household changes, Democratic Quality, Social Media, Public Opinion and Political Communication, Equity and Welfare in Education and Labor Market, legal systems and Legislation, Social-Ecology, Science of Science, and History, Archeology and Cultural Heritage. Employing a mixed of advanced statistical models, AI/Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), Social Network Analysis (SNA), high-performance computational methods are applied to a wide range of large datasets from official statistics, surveys, social media, news, laws, historical archives, current data archives, archaeology data, citizens' volunteered and web-scraping data, and public administration and industry data. We are seeking an enthusiastic and rigorous researcher in Social Sciences with special focus on the labor market and research transfer to policymakers. You’ll be part of the Equity and Welfare research group and report directly to the head of the group. The funding for these actions/fellowships and contracts comes from the European Union Recovery and Resilience Facility - Next Generation, within the framework of the General Invitation by the public business entity Red.es to participate in the talent attraction and retention programs within Investment 4 of Component 19 of the Recovery, Transformation, and Resilience Plan. "La financiación de estas actuaciones/becas y contratos, procede del Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia de la Unión Europea-Next Generation, en el marco de la Invitación General de la entidad pública empresarial Red.es para participar en los programas de atracción y retención del talento dentro de la Inversión 4 del Componente 19 del Plan de Recuperación, Transformación y Resiliencia.**Key Duties** - Conduct innovative research in the field of labor market and related areas that involves causal inference using observational data and computational methods and massive datasets (ML/AI, Statistical methods, text classification, topic modeling). - Contribute to writing and submitting project proposals of high scientific quality to seek competitive financial support at the international and European levels. - Collaborate with internal and external research groups, consolidating existing interdisciplinary collaborations and forging new alliances to advance in the field. - Work closely with the rest of the research group and the CSSH department to help translate research findings to public policy. **Requirements**: - Education - Phd in Political Science, Economics or related quantitative field - MA in Political Science, Economics or related quantitative field - Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience - Experience cleaning and crossing complex data sets - Experience as a researcher in labor market - Proven capacity to carry out research independently - Experience in causal inference of public policies using observational data - Good programming skills for statistical analysis (especially R) - Knowledge of qualitative data analysis (e.g ATLAS.ti) - Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience - Familiarity with the Spanish and Catalan Labor Market and related public policies - Proven track of publications in Labor Market - Fluency in English is essential. Proficiency in Spanish and other European languages would be advantageous. - Competences - Good communication skills for effective collaboration with other researchers as well as research engineers and data scientists. - Ability to work both independently, within a team and in a multi-cultural environment. - Hard-work