Munich: Postdoctoral Research Associate (100%)

The Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine at the Technical University of Munich is looking for a 100% postdoctoral research associate beginning in September 2025 or shortly after, for a term of 4 years. The postdoc will join the ERC-Starting Grant project team on “Participatory Algorithmic Justice: A multi-sited ethnography to advance algorithmic justice through participatory design” (PARTIALJUSTICE) to examine issues of justice and participation in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite its potential, AI is known to reinforce inequalities and result in negative consequences, for example, racial or gender bias, discrimination, or surveillance. Additionally, AI is one of the world’s most resource-intensive digital technologies, with significant impacts on climate and environmental health. This project advances collaborative, qualitative research to better understand who and what AI harms, but also how these harms should be redressed through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork. This fieldwork will be integrated with participatory design workshops to develop specific interventions into problems identified by research collaborators.

Applications are due by the 16th of May, 2025.

For more information and application criteria, please see here.