Data Scientist (PostDoc) for the European Capital of Culture

• A completed or started Ph.D. in a computational or quantitative area, such as computational social science, data science, data journalism, computational linguistics, information science, network science, etc. while demonstrating understanding or meaningful interest in socio-cultural phenomena.

• Alternatively, Ph.D. studies in a cultural research area, such as art history, digital humanities, cultural management, cultural sociology, cultural policy studies, cultural geography, or tourism management, with a strong track record in computation or quantification.

• Programming skills (Python, R, D3, Processing, or similar) and proficiency with libraries for data manipulation and analysis, machine learning skills.

• Candidates should ideally be familiar with, or not afraid to learn, state-of-the-art machine learning usage, such as the use of machine learning models (such as ChatGPT, Bing, and StableDiffusion) including their use for writing codes.

• Skills in producing scientific figures as found in top-level multidisciplinary journals.

• Preference will be for candidates who possess multidisciplinary competence and the necessary open-mindedness to bridge cultural and urban policy, cultural management, tourism, wellbeing, environmental sustainability, and economy.

• Advantage is demonstrated ability to produce (potentially) high-impact research, ideally making sense of large-scale socio-cultural data, including corpora of visual and audiovisual materials, and/or capturing the structure and dynamics of multidimensional spaces of (cultural) meaning.

Candidates with education suit the position

At least University education (Master's degree)

Ideally Postgraduate (Doctorate)

Language skills

Obligatory: English (B2-C1)

Optional: Slovak or Czech - Advanced (C1)

• Postdoc collaboration on the project until the end of 2027
• Opportunity to grow: with this project, each of us grows, we solve new challenges and tasks
• A chance to contribute: participating in the European Capital of Culture project is not only interesting professionally, it is also an opportunity to do something good and nice for all of us who live here
• Possibility of occasional work from home or remotely
• The chance to travel for work not only to the European capitals of culture but also to other cities
• The opportunity to collaborate with professionals from the artistic and cultural sphere from both the Slovak and international scenes
• The opportunity to be part of interesting events and occasions
• Support in education
• An office in the center of Trenčín

Your application should contain

• professional CV  in English or Slovak in PDF format
• optionally motivation letter in English or Slovak on a maximum of 1 A4,
• copy of a document certifying qualification,
• brief statement of research experience and interests
• list of research publications
• link to or full text of a representative research publication
• consent to the processing of personal data