Bocconi University 
Milano, Italy Project Description
Milano, 13/10/2026 prot. n. 227302 [Cod. riferimento: C3 1°L] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE AWARD OF 1 POST-DOC RESEARCHER FIXED-TERM EMPLOYEE CONTRACT, PURSUANT TO ART. 22, PARAGRAPH 3 OF LAW N.240/2010 AMENDED BY LAW N. 79 OF 29TH JUNE 2022, FOR THE SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY GROUPS 01/INFO-01 INFORMATICS AND 09/IINF-05 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS AT THE BIDSA RESEARCH CENTER OF UNIVERSITA’ COMMERCIALE “LUIGI BOCCONI” OF MILAN.
Article. 1 Call for Competition To promote the education and improvement of junior scholars, Università Commerciale “Luigi Bocconi” of Milan, announces a competition by exams and academic titles for the award, by means of an appropriate contract, pursuant to art. 22 of Law 240/2010, amended by Law n. 79 of 29th June 2022, and using the relative University Regulations emanated with the Rectoral Decree n° 3 of 22nd January 2026, of 1 Post-doc Researcher Position with the following characteristics: Duration: 24 months Possible starting date: 1st January 2027 At the BIDSA Research Center of Bocconi University Scientific Disciplinary Group: 01/INFO-01 INFORMATICS AND 09/IINF-05 INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS Scientific Disciplinary Sector: INFO-01/A Informatics and IINF-05/A Information
Processing Systems
Project: “Personal Natural Language Processing (PERSONAE)” Financed by: Commissione Europea - ERC-2023-STG, Grant Agreement n. 101116095 Professor of reference: prof. Debora Nozza
Research Project: PERSONAE will make language technology (LT) accessible and valuable to everyone. It will revolutionize research in subjective tasks in NLP such as abusive language detection and sentiment and emotion analysis by developing a new field called personal NLP, yielding new datasets, tasks, and algorithms. This new research area will explore subjective tasks from the perspective of the individual as information receiver, making users active actors in the creation of LTs instead of mere recipients. This will allow for a more tailored, effective approach to NLP model design, resulting in better models overall. Each person has their own interests and preferences based on their background and experience. These factors impact their views of what makes them happy, angry, or depressed over time. Language technologies (LTs) can consider individual preferences. However, current research presumes a static view of subjectivity: that a single ground truth underlies subjective tasks such as abusive language detection, an assumption that lacks human variability and prevents universal access to LTs. Language-based AI such as virtual
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assistants is widely available. But despite significant scientific advances, most LT applications are inaccessible to individuals and their public's opinion has become increasingly negative. GPT-3's 2020 release boosted business-oriented applications such as copywriting and chatbots, yet few that let people improve their lives—for example, by controlling what they see on social media. This gap becomes more pronounced for subjective tasks. PERSONAE will design subjective LTs that can be adapted by individuals at will over time. Based on an ambitious meta approach able to generalize from existing, disconnected work, PERSONAE will rely on fully personalizable privacy-aware algorithms that can be used by anyone. It will reveal benefits of LT far beyond those of existing systems, paving the way for future applications. Responsibilities in the Project: Successful candidates will actively collaborate with the research team to develop and implement new algorithms and methodologies in the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP). Primary responsibilities include participating in the design and execution of experiments to evaluate the effectiveness of personalized NLP models, exploring and analyzing data, collaborating on the creation and curation of annotated datasets, and writing scientific papers. Successful candidates will need to demonstrate: • proven experience in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a focus on subjective tasks and model personalization. • programming skills in languages such as Python and expertise in the use of NLP frameworks such as PyTorch. • experience in publishing papers in leading conferences in the field of computational linguistics. Applicants should attach to their application a list of publications and a motivation letter.
Article. 2 Admission Requirements In order to participate in the competition, Candidates for the position as Post-Doc Researcher must be scholars with a PhD or equivalent qualification, obtained in Italy or abroad, or in the process of completing their PhD within six months from the date of publication of this call, with the exclusion of Professors and researchers who already hold a position with tenure, even if they have ceased service. The following are not eligible to participate in the selection procedures: permanent staff employed by universities, public research centers and institutions whose scientific specialization diploma has been recognized as equivalent to the title of research doctor pursuant to Article 74, fourth paragraph, of the Presidential Decree of 11th July 1980, no. 382; those who have benefited from contracts pursuant to Article 24 of Law 240 of 2010; those who have a degree of kinship or affinity, up to the fourth degree, with a Professor affiliated with the Research Center that proposed the activation of the contract, with the Rector or the Managing Director. These statutory pre-requisites must be in place at the deadline for the presentation of applications determined by the present announcement.
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Applicants will obtain a conditional acceptance. At any time, the administration can arrange, with reason, exclusion from the selection procedure due to the lack of necessary pre-requisites.
Article. 3 Applications Applicants should apply by submitting the complete package via our on-line application system, which can be found at jobmarket.unibocconi.eu by 23:59 of 13th November 2026 (Italian time). Each candidate’s application must clearly indicate: • surname and name • date and place of birth • citizenship • residence • contact address The application must include the following documents, which must be attached to the application: • professional C.V., including a list of any titles/qualifications and publications, in pdf format; • any publication, or document that the candidate intends to submit for evaluation, in pdf format, up to a maximum of 10 scientific publications; • a motivation letter For any problem related to uploading files, the candidate can contact faculty@unibocconi.it
Article. 4 Evaluation Committee The Evaluation Committee for this competition, appointed by the Rector based on the proposal of the Director of the competent Research Centre, after consulting the professor of Referral of this call for applications, is made up of three professors, of which at least two professors are from the Bocconi Core Faculty, employed in the Academic Field of this call or of a similar scientific disciplinary sector. The competition will be carried out by an evaluation of titles and examination as well as an interview. For hiring via the National and International job market, the evaluation of the applications will be carried out by the Evaluation Committee, who will draw up a short list of candidates. Each shortlisted candidate will be interviewed in person or via conference call according to International Job Market practices to assess their research abilities and interest in covering the Post-doc researcher position proposed by the Bocconi University. At the end of the selection process the Evaluation Committee, will write an overall
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evaluation for each candidate, forming a table of eligible candidates which will be published on the University website. For eligible candidates, the Bocconi University, following the proposal of the Research Centre, has the possibility to make an offer which must explain: the contract type, teaching load required, responsibility in the Project, proposed salary, which cannot be less than the minimum wage. It must also indicate the deadline by which the candidate must communicate their acceptance of the offer. If the candidate accepts the offer, the Bocconi University will draw up a fixed term, private law contract.
This is an excerpt; the full call is in the official documents below.
Call details
- Institution: Bocconi University
- Discipline sector: 01/INFO-01
- Call type: Post-doc Researchers
- Call code: ID 1004
- Applications open: 13-10-2026
- Application deadline: 15-11-2026