Connectionists: Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher & PhD student (both 4 years) - Amsterdam - ERC Consolidator Project

[Marieke van Erp]

*apologies for cross-posting* 

Job opening for a postdoctoral researcher and PhD student (both 4 years) for a new ERC-funded Consolidator project TRIFECTA. 

For more information regarding the vacancies and how to apply see:
https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/1544/
https://vacatures.knaw.nl/job-invite/1537/ 

What the job entails:
The postdoctoral researcher and PhD student will work together on Tracing Contentious Entities and Concepts in Maritime History focusing on the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The team will develop and evaluate language and semantic web technology to identify and trace these concepts and to study the impact of digital processing tools on the hermeneutical practice of historical research. For more information about the project, see: https://trifecta.dhlab.nl

What we’re looking for:
Researchers who bring an open-minded and collaborative attitude towards doing groundbreaking digital humanities research. You have a firm grasp on computational methods and are willing to achieve proficiency in historical research methods or you are a historian willing to achieve proficiency in computational methods.
PhD student: You will need to have finished your MA in history or a related field or MSc in language technology, semantic web or a related field by the starting date of the project.
Postdoc: You will need to have finished a Ph.D. in history, language technology, semantic web or a related field by the starting date of the project.
Prior experience in interdisciplinary projects is a plus.
Your English is excellent and you have or are willing to obtain a working proficiency in Dutch.

What we are offering:
You will be working in the Digital Humanities Lab, a research group at KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam. DHLab investigates and develops innovative, data-driven, and computationally strong methods for humanities research. We develop computational methods for connecting collections and resources, computational heuristics and tool criticism, and we aim to bridge qualitative and quantitative methods.

Your workplace:
Our offices are located in a historical building in downtown Amsterdam. Researchers work together in projects and a shared office space and can choose to spend part of their time at home. DHLab aims to be an open and inquisitive, safe work environment where your input counts, not your job title. We value open conversations about pros and cons of a particular idea and approach based on content, not status.  

For more information:
Please contact: Dr. Marieke van Erp, principal investigator & DHLab department head: marieke.van.erp at dh.huc.knaw.nl

Application procedure
Please submit a CV, cover letter that includes a motivation on why you want to work on this project and a 1-page research statement via https://lnkd.in/g3A4pZ85 (postdoc)  or https://lnkd.in/g5A2YWZs (PhD student) 
Interviews will take place online on 7 June 2023.

For this job, you must be willing to move to the Netherlands and obtain a working proficiency of the Dutch language.

About the HuC:
The KNAW Humanities Cluster stands for innovative and interdisciplinary research in humanities and heritage.
The KNAW Humanities Cluster is a collaboration of three institutes of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW): the Huygens Institute for Dutch History and Culture, the International Institute of Social History and the Meertens Institute. In these institutes, we carry out pioneering and excellent humanities research (history, ethnology, literature, linguistics) with the application of innovative methods, in which computer science plays an important role. The business office of the KNAW Humanities Cluster has housed its operations in a central business office and supports these three institutes, as well as the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study (NIAS) and the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in their operations. The HuC has a joint Digital Infrastructure department, a Digital Humanities Lab and NL-Lab.

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https://www.mariekevanerp.com / @merpeltje 
Digital Humanities Lab / dhlab.nl
KNAW Humanities Cluster / huc.knaw.nl

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