Starting preference is early 2023. The position is initially limited to three years.
The University of Konstanz is one of eleven Universities of Excellence in Germany. Since 2007 it has been successful in the German Excellence Initiative and its follow-up programme, the Excellence Strategy.
The PhD position will be part of the Cluster of Excellence “Centre for the Advanced Study of Collective Behaviour” (CASCB) at the University of Konstanz, which investigates the collective behaviour and associated patterns in humans and animals in an unprecedented interdisciplinary approach by developing an innovative range of quantitative methods and novel technologies. The position will be embedded into the new starting project entitled “Understanding and facilitating positive group dynamics in education”. This project aims to increase our understanding of processes underlying group dynamics in educational contexts, which will provide novel insights under which conditions positive peer group dynamics emerge and how they can be facilitated. For this purpose, we integrate theories and methods from developmental and educational science, neuroscience, animal science, social network science and computational science, whereby our methodological approaches involve non-marker based tracking tools by using multiple synchronized cameras to record children’s social interactions (analyzed with deep learning based algorithms), heart-rate-variability indices as physiological markers during social interactions, event-based social network analyses (e.g. goldfish package in R), and survey-based assessments with children (with a strong quantitative focus).
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The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme. Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact).
For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Jeanine Grütter via Email.
We look forward to receiving your application (a motivation letter, a brief research statement relating your interests to the research program of our group, CV, publication list, copies of degrees and certificates, names and e-mail addresses of two or more academic referees) preferably by 21st of December 2022 via E-Mail in one PDF document to Prof. Dr. Jeanine Grütter via email.