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Benoît Frénay/Jérémy Dodeigne

Belgium

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Apply by Aug 7, 2026

Post-Doc

Belgium

Application deadline

Aug 7, 2026

105 days left

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Job location

Geocoding

Belgium

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Application Deadline

Aug 7, 2026

Start Date

Flexible

Education Required

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Job location

Geocoding

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Job Description

The postdoctoral researcher will work on an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of deep learning and comparative politics. The candidate will work in the Human-Centered Machine Learning (HuMaLearn) team of Prof. Benoît Frénay and the Belgian and Comparative Politics team of Prof. Jérémy Dodeigne. The goal will be to develop new deep learning methodologies to analyse large corpuses of archive videos that picture political debates. We specifically aim to detect emotions, body language, movements, attitudes, etc. This project is linked to the ERC POLSTYLE project that Jérémy Dodeigne recently obtained, guaranteeing a stimulating research environment.

Requirements

Eligible applicants are experienced researchers (i) in possession of a doctoral degree at the call deadline
or (ii) have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. Eligible applicants cannot have resided or carried out his/her main activity (work
studies
etc.) in Belgium for more than 12 months in the three years before the deadline of the call. Applicants must be fluent in English. Interested candidates can send an e-mail to Benoît Frenay and Jérémy Dodeigne with a motivation letter explaining their adequacy with the proposed research topic
a recent CV with a publication list and a link to an online profile (ORCID
Scholar or equivalent)
their PhD thesis and up to five representative publications. PhD student who have not yet defended their thesis and who will do so in the next coming months are welcome to apply (in which case
sending us a PhD thesis is not mandatory).

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