Postdoc & Scientific Coordinator

What you'll be doing here

• Take a central role in the delivery of THRIVE, a newly funded Horizon Europe project tackling a timely and urgent topic: investigating how adolescents' everyday digital practices impact self-regulated learning and emotional well-being.
• Lead scientific project coordination across 13 European partners, managing work packages, milestones, dependencies and deadlines.
• Facilitate collaboration and communication among international research partners and stakeholders, including organising and moderating meetings and workshops.
• Conduct and lead research publication projects.
• Apply research methods and contribute to mixed methods research designs, longitudinal data collection and analysis, and the development and evaluation of human-centred AI-supported interventions.

What you'll bring with you

• PhD in Information Systems, Human- Computer Interaction (HCI), Psychology, EdTech or a related discipline.
• Strong organisational and coordination skills, a proactive and independent working style, and ideally experience managing international, interdisciplinary or multi-stakeholder projects.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to take ownership, foster collaboration and drive complex projects forward in uncertain environments.
• Experience in mixed-methods approaches, longitudinal studies, conference and journal publishing processes.
• Excellent written and spoken English (C1); German is an advantage for data collection.

To start with, here are some of our strong points

• An almost unbelievably large variety of themes and topics and a great mix of research and teaching.
• Plenty of contact with eager young people from all over the world who are set on achieving things.
• Responsibility in hugely exciting projects for the future attracting attention beyond the professional world.
• National and international networks and contacts with business, economy, society and the political world.

I'll be your guide through the
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Cédric Schmid
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Business School
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