The Data Science Lab of Prof. Lucie Flek at the University of Bonn and the Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence invites applications for a *Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)* in *Computational Psychology / Human–AI Interaction*.
The position is part of the *ERC-funded project LLMpathy (2025–2030)*, which investigates how *human psychological traits, values, emotions, and social cognition can be modeled and empirically linked to the behavior of large language models* in order to build and evaluate *socially intelligent AI systems*. The postdoc will take a *leading role in the design and execution of large-scale human studies* that serve as the empirical foundation for computational human modeling and social AI evaluation.
*Responsibilities include:* – Co-Design and validation of psychometric and interaction-based human studies – Development of social interaction and human–AI interaction tasks – Advanced statistical analysis of human behavioral data – Close collaboration with AI researchers to translate psychological constructs into human models for AI evaluation – Co-Development of Ethics- and GDPR-compliant study governance – Co-Mentoring of PhD students and scientific publications
*Profile:* PhD in psychology, cognitive science, HCI, computational social science, or related field, with strong expertise in *psychometrics, experimental design, and human-subject research*. Strong AI affinity is required; deep machine learning engineering is *not* expected.
*Position:* Full-time (TV-L E13/E14) up to *3 years* *Preferred start:* *March 1, 2025* *Location:* Bonn, Germany
*Application:* CV, motivation letter, short research summary, referees (optional) *Contact:* lflek@uni-bonn.de Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, with the first deadline on *December 13, 2025*
The University of Bonn is an equal-opportunity employer and encourages applications from women and underrepresented groups.
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