07 Postdoctoral Fellowship at NTNU, Norway

It is expected that the postdoctoral fellow contributes to the main project goals, and actively takes part in project and department seminars and other activities. The project position is a research position. Language training and teaching constitute some part of the position as elements in career development. The postdoctoral fellow is expected to be able to work quite independently on defined subprojects, and to develop their career and research network. The work will involve both mathematical analysis and programming/numerical methods connected to goals of the sub-package, see further the project description at the project web page. 

As a postdoctoral fellow, you get to develop and carry out your own research project, and work with scientific publishing. Arrangements have been made for, and expected, extensive participation in the research group “Technology and social change” in which the position is anchored. The group will support and guide the project implementation and provide a foundation for the project. The group is broadly oriented towards studies of technology in working life and society in general. 

The topic of the Post Doc project is algorithms and AI in working life. More specifically, an investigation of algorithmic management of work (of platform work and preferably in other industries) and/or the use of algorithms/AI in employment processes is desired. These are fields where new technology is expected to have great significance for the sociology of work, and where contributions can also be developed to e.g. sociologically oriented ICT research, technology and science studies, and organizational research. With the emergence of new technology, the traditional power relationship in working life can be challenged. This is particularly relevant since the Norwegian model is characterized by local democracy, a high degree of organization and cooperation between employer and employee organisations. The focus on algorithms and artificial intelligence in working life therefore has great transfer value to general discussions about the role of technology in future working life, democracy and the development of the Norwegian labor market.

At the Department of Social Work at NTNU, there is a vacant temporary position as a postdoctoral fellow in social work for a period of 3 years. The postdoctoral position is a qualification position where the main aim is to qualify for work in top scientific positions.

The purpose of this postdoctoral project is to explore, both theoretically and empirically, “resistance” as a phenomenon in child welfare. High demands are placed on cooperation and participation in child protection, with children and parents. At the same time, both children and parents can often express a broad and creative repertoire of resistance in the meeting with child welfare services. Understanding the role that various actors’ resistance plays in the cooperation between families and child protection services/other welfare services could have a major impact on whether vulnerable families receive effective help. 

The position is associated with the research group ” Child protection research and innovation “. The post.doc position will also be linked to the established collaboration between the research group and Trondheim municipality through the “University Municipality TRD 3.0”.

The position as researcher is a temporary two-year position, with an ultimate goal to qualify for senior academic positions.

The researcher will work in an exciting inter-disciplinary Horizon Europe project “MultiFutures”. The project as a whole will research socio-economic policies and paradigms (e.g., circular economy) that could complement or even present alternatives to the current policy landscape and economic paradigm in Europe. One of the key aims of the project is to understand the impact of potential policy changes on the economy, and on social and environmental sustainability, as well as public acceptance of the policy changes that would be required. The postdoc’s work will focus in large part on policy acceptance and on perceived social, environmental, and economic policy impacts, drawing on perspectives from environmental and social psychology, behavioral economics and other social sciences and using empirical methods such as experiments and online surveys (with a plan to collect data from 10,000+ participants).

We have a vacancy for a postdoctoral fellow in sociology for a period of 3 years. The postdoctoral position is a qualification position where the main aim is to qualify for work in top scientific positions. The position is assigned 1 year of compulsory work in the form of teaching and guidance tasks in sociology.

As a postdoctoral fellow, you get to develop and carry out your own research project, and work with scientific publishing. In the position, you get to work independently on your own project, but with good opportunities for collaboration, follow-up and guidance through participation in the responsible group Migration and mobility  https://www.ntnu.no/iss/migrasjon-og-mobilitet  in which the position is anchored Here, experienced and younger researchers meet in a safe community that emphasizes supporting and developing the individual’s project. The research group organizes both internal and international seminars, and through the research group you get access to and the opportunity to make contacts that are important for your research project and further development. 

The research in the group is linked to various forms of mobility and migration at different levels of society, such as domestic and international migration, inequality and welfare, and change processes in local communities. The post doc position springs from this and will be a closer study of how local society and working life organization promote or discourage integration and inequality among migrant groups.

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.

At the Department of Computer Science, we have a vacancy for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Artificial Intelligence for developing and building trust in deep learning models applied to the operation of the power grid. This project is a part of the SFI NorwAI research center. The work will be performed in close cooperation with Statnett, the Norwegian transmission system operator.

The power sector is in rapid development. The green energy transition introduces large amount of power from renewable and intermittent energy sources such as wind and solar. This leads to large, rapid fluctuations in the system, and a need for predictive machine learning models for safe and efficient operation. In particular, Statnett increasingly relies on accurate forecasts on many different timescales.

Deep learning, and in particular transformer models, have been successfully applied to a broad range of problems. These models are particularly successful in large language models but are also increasingly applied to time series forecasting. However, their application remains limited to industrial problems, partly due to limited availability of training data, and partly due to lack of transparency and explainability.

The objective of this position is to further the uptake of deep learning in industrial processes, particularly in the operation of critical infrastructure such as the power grid. The focus will be on methods for building model trust by adding explainability and quantifying uncertainty, as well as studying ways to exploit domain knowledge in combination with observational data, for instance by data augmentation through simulation or by incorporating expert knowledge into the models (e.g. through the use of hybrid models or deep probabilistic models).

The use of transformers for time series forecasting is a natural first application, but other deep learning architectures and other applications such as anomaly detection are also within the scope of this position. In particular, we are interested in explaining anomalies to reduce the number of false positives.

The postdoctoral fellowship position is a temporary position where the main goal is to qualify for work in senior academic positions.

The Mathematics Education Section of The Department of Teacher Education has a vacancy for a Postdoc position in Mathematics Education focusing on Critical Mathematics Education. The position is within the Research Group (Inclusive Mathematics Education and Democracy) (IMED – Research – Department of Teacher Education – NTNU). With this postdoc fellowship, we want to explore the critical positioning of mathematics widely (in different dimensions of society), especially in schools. Critical thinking with mathematics is becoming an integral part of the preparation for critical citizenship as part of quality democratic citizenship. 
Critical mathematics education (CME) points out the importance of seeing the goal of mathematics education in terms of preparing learners as critical/responsible citizens with power, authority, and knowledge to engage with mathematics productively and critically. Here the role of taking a critical stance into the mathematically formatted realities can be aligned with responsible citizenship through mathematics. With this goal of responsible citizenship in mind, we want to explore through this post-doc fellowship how to take a critical stance on various issues related to climate change and its mitigation measures through education for sustainable development (ESD). Here ESD can be approached through dialogical engagement with critical interpretations of arguments around climate change in mathematics classrooms at schools. What kinds of support can mathematics teachers provide to encourage learners to take a critical stance on the mathematics involved in climate change? Moreover, the postdoc position will help by strengthening our Sustainability Lab for school initiative through innovative transdisciplinary approaches to engage with sustainability from a socio-ecological perspective within school and teacher education contexts.