Predoctoral Fellow under Supervision of Professor Thomas Graeber
Behavioral & Experimental Economics, Economic Applications of Artificial Intelligence

The position offers an opportunity to gain first-hand experience in developing cutting-edge research, collaborating with Professor Graeber and his co-author network at Harvard and throughout Europe. His current and planned empirical research investigates how complexity influences behavior in real-world applications including finance, consumer choice, and political behavior. The work heavily relies on online and field experiments, analysis of natural language data, and AI applications such as synthetic experiments with LLM agents.

• Analyzing survey, observational, textual and speech data.
• Designing and implementing choice experiments.
• Artificial intelligence applications, such as synthetic experiments using LLM techniques.
• Contributing to the development of theoretical frameworks for behavioral phenomona.

• Strong programming skills (Python is required; some knowledge of R or Stata desirable).
• Strong project management and communication skills in spoken and written English.
• Some Experience with natural language processing, large language models or other machine-learning experience desirable (but not required).
• Prior experience as research assistant desirable

• Opportunities to acquire skills necessary to conduct independent research.
• Support during your PhD application process or non-academic job search.
• A competitive salary in line with University of Zurich standards.

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