<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Center for Adaptive Rationality (ARC) at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, seeks applicants for <font color="#343434"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">1 PhD Position and 1 Postdoc Position on LLM Applications to </strong><strong style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box;">the Behavioral and Social Sciences.</strong></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">The positions are for three years and are available from January 1st, 2025, but later start dates are possible.</span></p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 108, 102); margin: 15px 0px 8px; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Position</h2><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Center for Adaptive Rationality takes an interdisciplinary approach to behavioral and social science. The positions are funded through a grant from the German Research Foundation. It focuses on applying (open-source) large language models (LLMs) to research data from the behavioral and social sciences to understand psychological mechanisms and anticipate the generalizability of findings. The goal is to develop LLM-based methods and tools to improve generalizability in these fields. The successful candidates will join the Search and Learning research area headed by Dr. Dirk Wulff.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 108, 102); margin: 15px 0px 8px; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Your Profile</h2><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Applicants should have programming skills in Python or R and an interest in meta-science perspectives on behavioral and social science. Prior experience with natural language processing and (open-source) large language models is desirable. Applicants should also hold or anticipate receiving, as shown in supporting documents, a suitable degree in psychology, cognitive science, computer science, or a related field.</p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 108, 102); margin: 15px 0px 8px; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Our Offer</h2><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Max Planck Institute for Human Development (<a class="external" href="https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 108, 102); transition: color 0.25s ease 0s; text-underline-position: under; text-underline-offset: -0.1em;">www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de</a>) offers an excellent infrastructure, including support staff and state-of-the-art GPU computing clusters. It provides an international and interdisciplinary research environment, with English being the working language of the Center for Adaptive Rationality. </p><h2 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(0, 108, 102); margin: 15px 0px 8px; font-size: 22px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Your Application</h2><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">The Max Planck Society strives for gender and diversity equality. We welcome applications from all backgrounds. The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such individuals. </p><p style="font-size: 16px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1rem; letter-spacing: 0.01rem; font-family: Roboto, Tahoma, Arial, sans-serif; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">We look forward to your application, which should include a cover letter describing your research interests, your CV, relevant certificates, and, if available, a representative preprint or publication. Please submit your application</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><strong style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#343434">without a photo</font></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">. All documents should be sent as</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><strong style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#343434">a single PDF file</font></strong><strong style="color: rgb(73, 73, 75); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box;">,</strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">with your last name as the file name to ARC Applications, MPI for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin (</span><a href="mailto:arc-applications@mpib-berlin.mpg.de" style="color: rgb(0, 108, 102); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box; transition: color 0.25s ease 0s; text-underline-position: under; text-underline-offset: -0.1em;">arc-applications@mpib-berlin.mpg.de</a><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">), with the subject line “PhD/Postdoctoral Position on LLM Applications to the Behavioral and Social Sciences.” Applications must be submitted by</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><strong style="letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box;"><font color="#343434">October 13th</font></strong><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">to ensure consideration. However, review of applications will continue until the position is filled. </span><span style="color: rgb(254, 254, 254); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;">Social Sciences.” Applications must be submitted by</span><span style="color: rgb(254, 254, 254); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> </span><strong style="color: rgb(254, 254, 254); letter-spacing: 0.01rem; box-sizing: border-box;">October 13th</strong><span style="color: rgb(254, 254, 254); letter-spacing: 0.01rem;"> to ensure consideration. However, review of applications will continue until the position is filled. </span></p></body></html>