Research Associate (PhD Candidate) Cross-platform Social Media Mining (KTS-76)

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1 month ago

Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen

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GESIS is seeking a Research Associate (PhD Candidate) for a three-year position focusing on social media mining to detect political disinformation across platforms. The role involves designing data collection pipelines, applying natural language processing, and conducting applied research to support innovative social media analysis projects.

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GESIS — Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is Germany’s central research infrastructure organization supporting empirical social research. It provides researchers with curated datasets (micro and aggregate), access services and a research data center, extensive documentation and metadata, survey instruments and questionnaire archives, and methodological consulting for study planning, sampling, data collection, pretesting and analysis. GESIS hosts major resources and tools such as SSOAR, ZACAT and SOFIS and distributes large cross‑national studies (e.g. ALLBUS, Eurobarometer, European Values Study), plus services for data harmonization, standards and reuse. Universities, public agencies and social scientists rely on GESIS for high‑quality data, training, and methodological expertise.