LEADER OF THE DIGITAL HUMANITIES RESEARCH GROUP (R4)

About BSC The Barcelona Supercomputing Center - Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) is the leading supercomputing center in Spain.
It houses MareNostrum, one of the most powerful supercomputers in Europe, was a founding and hosting member of the former European HPC infrastructure PRACE (Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe), and is now hosting entity for EuroHPC JU, the Joint Undertaking that leads large-scale investments and HPC provision in Europe.
The mission of BSC is to research, develop and manage information technologies in order to facilitate scientific progress.
BSC combines HPC service provision and R&D into both computer and computational science (life, earth and engineering sciences) under one roof, and currently has over staff from 60 countries.
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Context And Mission The Computational Social Science program envisions preparing the social sciences and humanities for the era of data, artificial intelligence (AI), and Exascale supercomputing.
Our mission is to foster collaboration between social scientists and computer scientists, making high-performance computing (HPC) accessible to all researchers in the field.
Through innovative approaches, we aim to apply social science research to contribute valuable insights for informed policymaking.
In our pursuit, we focus on a wide range of key societal research areas such as Population changes and living arrangements, Democratic Quality, Social Media and Information Environment, social ecology, Education and Labor Market, Law technologies, Social Innovation, and History and Cultural Heritage.
Employing a mix of complex statistical models, AI/Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), and Social Network Analysis (SNA), among others, our advanced computational methods are applied to diverse datasets from official statistics, surveys, social media, news, laws, historical archives, current data archives, citizens' volunteered data, government and industry data.
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Group Leader to initiate and coordinate a new research unity in Digital Humanities.
As a Group Leader, you will play a pivotal role in the creation and guidance of the researchers’ team, conducting cutting-edge research and collaborating with international research groups to advance our understanding of Digital Humanities.
You will report to Dr.
Mercè Crosas, director of the CSSH department.
Key Duties Lead and coordinate a team of researchers, providing guidance, mentorship and support to achieve research goals.
Write and submit project proposals of the highest scientific quality to seek competitive financial support at the international and European levels.
Oversee the planning and execution of research projects, ensuring alignment with the department’s goals.
Conduct innovative research in the field of Digital Humanities, in particular combining the research on archival texts, archaeology and cultural heritage with AI models.
Collaborate with internal and external research groups, consolidating existing interdisciplinary collaborations and forging new alliances to advance the field of Digital Humanities.
Requirements Education PhD in History, Philosophy, Literature or related field.
Essential Knowledge and Professional Experience Proven experience leading a research group.
Proven track record of conducting cutting-edge research in Humanities, as evidenced by publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Experience in coordinating and managing research projects, including the supervision of research staff and students Excellent track of research and publications on topics related to Humanities (preferably in History) Prior experience in grant writing and securing research funding from competitive funding agencies.
Experience working in interdisciplinary projects, communication with computer scientists and technologists, and combining AI with research in Humanities Additional Knowledge and Professional Experience Experience in carrying out research in a variety of fields within Humanities, especially in archivistics, historiography and anthropology Experience leading historical archives Experience working with the local humanities and cultural heritage community Competences Team management skills, with the ability to motivate team members to achieve the group's research goals.
Capacity to contribute to research projects with novel research ideas and analysis.
Excellent problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail and a commitment to scientific rigor.
Excellent communication skills to specialized audiences.
Conditions The position will be located at BSC within the Directors Department We offer a part-time contract, a good working environment, a highly stimulating environment with state-of-the-art infrastructure, flexible working hours, extensive training plan, restaurant tickets, private health insurance, support to the relocation procedures Duration.
Open-ended contract due to technical and scientific activities linked to the project and budget duration Holidays.
23 paid vacation days plus 24th and 31st of December per our collective agreement Salary.
we offer a competitive salary commensurate with the qualifications and experience of the candidate and according to the cost of living in Barcelona Starting date.
Applications procedure and process All applications must be made through BSC website and contain.
A full CV in English including contact details A Cover Letter with a statement of interest in English, including two contacts for further references - Applications without this document will not be considered In accordance with the OTM-R principles, a gender-balanced recruitment panel is formed for every vacancy at the beginning of the process.
After reviewing the content of the applications, the panel will start the interviews, with at least one technical and one administrative interview.
A profile questionnaire as well as a technical exercise may be required during the process.
The panel will make a final decision and all candidates who had contacts with them will receive a feedback with details on the acceptance or rejection of their profile.
At BSC we are seeking continuous improvement in our recruitment processes, for any suggestions or feedback/complaints about our Recruitment Processes, please contact recruitment [at] bsc [dot] es.
For more information follow this link Deadline The vacancy will remain open until a suitable candidate has been hired.
Applications will be regularly reviewed and potential candidates will be contacted.
OTM-R principles for selection processes BSC-CNS is committed to the principles of the Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers of the European Commission and the Open, Transparent and Merit-based Recruitment principles (OTM-R).
This is applied for any potential candidate in all our processes, for example by creating gender-balanced recruitment panels and recognizing career breaks etc.
BSC-CNS is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion.
We are pleased to consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or any other basis protected by applicable state or local law.
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