Postdoc in The Center of Digital Lives
vor 2 Wochen
**PostDoc in the Center of Digital Lives (100%)**
**Preferred Starting Date is between July 1, 2025 and September 1, 2025**
The Faculty of Psychology is one of seven faculties of the oldest university in Switzerland. With our core focus on Society & Choice and Health & Interventions, we are successful both nationally and internationally in our research and study programs. The new Center of Digital Lives researches the everyday digital life from a psychological perspective and investigates how digital media use in everyday life (e.g. via smartphones, social media, AI-based chatbots) changes well-being and social relationships. The Center of Digital Lives strives to map and research the complexity of everyday digital life and has an interdisciplinary focus. We research media use and its effects in the family context and digital media use for coping with stress. The PostDoc will conduct research within one or several of the focus areas of the Center of Digital Lives and contribute to teaching activities.
**Your position**
- Coordinate and manage own research projects and contribute to the projects of the Center of Digital Lives
- Conceptualize, design, conduct, and analyze research studies with a focus on longitudinal designs including experience sampling and tracking designs
- Design plan, and teach courses (lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical courses)
- Supervise students and review their contributions (seminar, bachelor and master theses); support examinations on the BSc and MSc level
- Contribute to organizational tasks within the Center of Digital Lives
**Your profile**
- You have a PhD in Psychology or Communication Science or a closely-related discipline and are in an early stage of your academic career.
- You are interested in and have previous experience in researching digital media use in everyday life and are enthusiastic about investigating the complexities of digital media's deep integration into everyday life.
- You have excellent knowledge of research methods and advanced statistics including longitudinal research designs and are interested in learning new methods and statistical approaches.
- You can analyze datasets using R.
- Your written/spoken English proficiency is very good, proficiency in German is preferred.
**We offer you**
- Joining a new and dynamic team and working on highly topical issues
- Possibility to contribute to shaping the Center of Digital Lives
- Involvement in the research group's projects as well as national and international collaboration opportunities
- The position is offered for 2 years with the possibility for extension for additional two years.
- Basel is situated in Switzerland, at the borders to France and Germany. It's a great and welcoming city, and an excellent place to live and work. Quality of life, health care, and public transportation meet the highest standards.
- Part-time work is possible.
The University of Basel stands for excellence through diversity and is committed to equal opportunities and family-friendliness.
- a 1-1.5-page cover letter describing your research interests and fit to the position
- your curriculum vitae, all relevant certificates
- the contact details of one expert in the field you have worked with
- one scientific contribution you authored (e.g., a part or your entire PhD thesis; a manuscript; a journal article).
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