GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences is an internationally active research institute, funded by federal and state governments and member of the Leibniz Association.
Starting on January 1, 2027 our Department Survey Data Curation, Team Survey Data Augmentation, located in Cologne, is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in geospatial political data(Salary group 13 TV-L, working time 100 %, initially limited to 4 years) The department „Survey Data Curation“ processes and prepares social science research data across a diverse range of data types to support sociological and political science research, especially in comparative perspectives across space and time.
The curated data include long-running national (e.
, ALLBUS, GLES) and international (e.
, ISSP, CSES) survey programs, which are documented and curated to the highest quality standards, but also research data products derived from or connected to these surveys, such as geo referencing services or trend files.
“Monitoring Electoral Democracy” (MEDem) is an emerging European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) that will enable more comprehensive and innovative comparative democracy research by linking data sources, encouraging standards, and developing tools for data collection and analysis (www.
Our team Survey Data Augmentation hosts the MEDem Service Center Linkage.
Your tasks will be:Developing linking tools for geo-coded data to advance democracy researchCoordinating with other MEDem Service Centers on dealing with geo-coded informationContributing to the general conceptual, organizational, and technical development of MEDemCollaborating within the team “Survey Data Augmentation”; includes regular presence at the officeWriting related grant proposalsYour profile:Completed master’s degree and a PhD in political science using empirical methods with a focus on subnational dynamicsAdvanced.