Join the DFG Funded Project: Learning From Environment Through the Eyes of Children
Goethe University Frankfurt is looking for a PostDoc in Psychology (f/m/d) and a PhD or PostDoc in Computer Science (f/m/d) for the DFG funded project "Learning From Environment Through the Eyes of Children". The project is part of the SPP 2431 New Data Spaces for the Social Sciences and aims to establish a new mode of data acquisition that captures young children’s first-person experience in naturalistic settings. The preferred starting date is September 2024 with a duration of three years. The salary grade is based on the job characteristics of the collective agreement applicable to Goethe University (TV-G-U).
The psychology position involves working in close collaboration with computer science team members on the issue of the interplay between environment and individual development, utilizing digital technologies to reliably capture daily experiences from the first-person perspective. The ideal candidate should have a doctoral degree and expertise in psychology/cognitive neuroscience, experience with eye-tracking and collecting video data in everyday environments, designing and setting up studies with young children, and analyzing the collected data in relation to psychological variables. For more information, please contact Yee Lee Shing at shing at psych.uni-frankfurt.de.
The computer science position involves the development of an AI-based framework to characterize the nature and complexity of the captured experiences, including the development and adaptation of multimodal deep neural networks to automatically analyze and infer the camera, eye-tracking and microphones data; analyze and explore the collected data from the psychological variables and questions. The ideal candidate should have a master or doctoral degree and strong knowledge of machine learning (deep learning, RNN, LSTMs, transformers, multimodal models), excellent programming skills in Python and extensive experience with Tensorflow, pyTorch or related libraries; knowledge of distributed high performance computing with GPUs and experience/strong interest in psychology and cognitive science. For more information, please contact Gemma Roig at roig at cs.uni-frankfurt.de.
Goethe University Frankfurt is a vibrant community of cognitive and neuroscientists with state-of-the-art research facilities. The university encourages applications from women and severely disabled persons with equal aptitude and qualifications will be given priority. Please send your informative application by 07.07.2024 with the usual documents, including CV, an overview of courses already held with evaluation results and a one-page description of the research profile exclusively in electronic form (one PDF file) by e-mail to both Prof. Dr. Yee Lee Shing and Prof. Dr. Gemma Roig.