Student Assistant at Pace Lab

**Introduction**:
UNIL is a leading international teaching and research institution, with over 5,000 employees and 17,000 students split between its Dorigny campus, CHUV and Epalinges. As an employer, UNIL encourages excellence, individual recognition and responsibility.

**Presentation**:
The Department of Organizational Behavior at the Faculty for Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne provides a stimulating and highly interdisciplinary research environment. We value the diverse areas of expertise among department members, who variously hold Ph.D.s in business, management, psychology, economics, and population biology. More broadly, the Faculty of Business and Economics at the University of Lausanne is one of the largest faculties on campus and consists of 10 integrated departments. Department members come from several different countries, and the working language of the department is English.

At the PaceLab we study social learning and cultural evolution in terms of both basic research and policy, and this work often consists of a mix of modeling and empiricism. Our applied work covers various domains in which behavior has a clear cultural component. These include female genital cutting, corruption, sex-biased abortion, diet and health, and climate change. We have conducted empirical research, largely experimental, in many countries in Africa, the Americas, Europe, and Asia.

**Job information**:
Expected start date in position : September 1st, 2025 or mutually acceptable alternative

Contract length : 6 months

Type of position : Student assistant, 40%

Supervisor : Prof. Sonja Vogt

Workplace : Department of Organizational Behavior, Internef Building

Salary : According to legal stipulations

**Your responsibilities**:

- Support lab members with basic tasks associated with data management, data cleaning and analysis.
- Creating descriptive graphs for research purposes (for example in R).
- Responsible for various administrative task related to online experiments (e.g. issuing participant payments, troubleshooting & testing of experiments, participant management).
- Contribution to lecture and seminar materials.
- Conduct literature reviews on various topics to support the development of new research projects.

**Your qualifications**:

- Master’s student.
- Proficient in English.
- Capable of working independently and interested in learning new things.
- Strong analytical skills and good knowledge of a data analysis program (R, STATA, or Python).
- Knowledge or prior experience with survey management would be a plus.

**What the position offers you**:

- The opportunity to work on cutting-edge social science research projects as a part of a dynamic academic environment.
- Support with developing an academic career through mentorship and academic references.
- Good working conditions, respecting the priorities and constraints of the Research Assistant.
- A nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment.
- Opportunities for professional training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover.

**Deadline: August 4th, 2025**
- Brief cover letter detailing, in particular- Your motivation/interest in research in human behavior
- Your analytical/programming skills, and how you developed them
- Your experience with research related tasks in general (e.g. literature research, methodological background)
- Curriculum Vitae with references
- Copies of university diplomas and degrees; transcripts (indicating marks/grades achieved)

**Contact for further information**:
Dr Akshay Moorthy

**Additional information**:

- UNIL is committed to:

- equality, diversity and inclusion within its community;
- ensuring an open and respectful environment that is conducive to personal development;
- offering working conditions that facilitate work-life balance;
- supporting early career researchers.

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