Post-doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer (OPTIMA)

Are you a computational social scientist with a knack for software development? Do you believe that open science should be a seamless part of a researcher's workflow rather than a burdensome afterthought?

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At the VU FSW Societal Analytics Lab, we are looking for a Post-doctoral Researcher / Research Engineer to join our team to work on the development of OPTIMA: the Observatory for Political Texts, Images, and Multimedia.

Researchers working with digital traces are at a crossroads. While the digital age offers unprecedented access to multimodal data, copyright restrictions and privacy concerns often make that data impossible to share. OPTIMA is a 2-year project funded to solve this. Building on the software prototypes AmCAT and