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Five-year Postdoctoral Position on Bayes Factor Hypothesis Testing in Factorial Designs

  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
  • 14489
  • PhD
  • €4.728 - €6.433
  • 38 hours
  • Closes on
    19-10-2025
Apply

Five-year Postdoctoral Position on Bayes Factor Hypothesis Testing in Factorial Designs

  • Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
  • 14489
  • PhD
  • €4.728 - €6.433
  • 38 hours
  • Closes on
    19-10-2025
Apply

Working at the UvA

Postdoc

The five-year postdoctoral position is part of a larger team that seeks to develop, assess, and promote Bayes factor hypothesis tests in factorial designs.  

 

Working at the UvA

Postdoc

The five-year postdoctoral position is part of a larger team that seeks to develop, assess, and promote Bayes factor hypothesis tests in factorial designs.  

 

All about this vacancy

What are you going to do

The envisioned projects will focus on the following activities related to Bayesian inference in factorial designs:

  1. Construction and elicitation of informed prior distributions;
  2. Critical assessment of default prior distributions;
  3. Organizing a many-statisticians challenge and workshop;
  4. Studying model-averaging, effect size estimation, and tests for interactions;
  5. Designing methods to overcome numerical challenges.

 

What do you have to offer

You have a PhD in a topic that involved Bayes factor hypothesis testing. You can collaborate well with software engineers, students, psychologists, and statisticians. You are highly proficient in English writing. You have extensive experience in R programming. 

 

What else do we offer you

This is a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week, for the duration of 5 years.

 

Depending on relevant work experience, the salary amounts to a minimum of €4,728 and a maximum of €6,433 gross per month (scale 11) based on full-time working hours (38 hours per week), excluding 8% vacation allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable. In addition, we offer an extensive package of secondary employment conditions, including a generous vacation scheme and year-end bonus, and we believe it is important that you continue to develop and professionalize yourself. To this end, we offer excellent study and development.

 

All about this vacancy

What are you going to do

The envisioned projects will focus on the following activities related to Bayesian inference in factorial designs:

  1. Construction and elicitation of informed prior distributions;
  2. Critical assessment of default prior distributions;
  3. Organizing a many-statisticians challenge and workshop;
  4. Studying model-averaging, effect size estimation, and tests for interactions;
  5. Designing methods to overcome numerical challenges.

 

What do you have to offer

You have a PhD in a topic that involved Bayes factor hypothesis testing. You can collaborate well with software engineers, students, psychologists, and statisticians. You are highly proficient in English writing. You have extensive experience in R programming. 

 

What else do we offer you

This is a temporary employment contract for 38 hours per week, for the duration of 5 years.

 

Depending on relevant work experience, the salary amounts to a minimum of €4,728 and a maximum of €6,433 gross per month (scale 11) based on full-time working hours (38 hours per week), excluding 8% vacation allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus. The Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities is applicable. In addition, we offer an extensive package of secondary employment conditions, including a generous vacation scheme and year-end bonus, and we believe it is important that you continue to develop and professionalize yourself. To this end, we offer excellent study and development.

 

Your place at the UvA

You will work here

You will join the Psychological Methods group, which provides ample opportunity for collaboration and exchange of ideas. Within the Psychological Methods group, you will work in the team of EJ Wagenmakers. One of the main goals of this team is to develop and promote Bayesian inference (and in particular Bayes factor hypothesis testing), and lower the bar for field-wide adoption by implementing the Bayesian methodology in JASP (www.jasp-stats.org).

About the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) is the largest educational and research institution in the field of social and behavioural sciences in Europe. Here, we explore societal and human-centered issues, driven by scientific curiosity but also with an eye for current themes. For example, the impact of media and communication on individuals and society, healthcare challenges, global urbanization, human development, the role of political institutions, understanding the human mind, growing inequality, diversity issues, and changing social relationships.
In Europe and beyond, the FMG holds a leading position, thanks in part to its more than 1,300 staff members who contribute to education and research. Will you be one of them?
Read more about the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Your place at the UvA

This is where you will be working

You will work here

You will join the Psychological Methods group, which provides ample opportunity for collaboration and exchange of ideas. Within the Psychological Methods group, you will work in the team of EJ Wagenmakers. One of the main goals of this team is to develop and promote Bayesian inference (and in particular Bayes factor hypothesis testing), and lower the bar for field-wide adoption by implementing the Bayesian methodology in JASP (www.jasp-stats.org).

About the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) is the largest educational and research institution in the field of social and behavioural sciences in Europe. Here, we explore societal and human-centered issues, driven by scientific curiosity but also with an eye for current themes. For example, the impact of media and communication on individuals and society, healthcare challenges, global urbanization, human development, the role of political institutions, understanding the human mind, growing inequality, diversity issues, and changing social relationships.
In Europe and beyond, the FMG holds a leading position, thanks in part to its more than 1,300 staff members who contribute to education and research. Will you be one of them?
Read more about the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Important to know

Your application & contact

If you recognize yourself in this profile and are interested in the role, we look forward to receiving your motivation letter and CV. You can apply via the red button until 19 October 2025. Interviews will take place in the two weeks after this closing date. In case of equal qualifications, internal candidates will be given preference over external candidates.

For questions about the vacancy, you can contact EJ Wagenmakers ([email protected]).

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

As an employer, the UvA maintains an equal opportunities policy. We value diversity and are fully committed to being a place where everyone feels at home. We nurture inquisitive minds and perseverance and allow room for persistent questioning. With us, curiosity and creativity are the prevailing culture.
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Studies show that women and members of underrepresented groups only apply for jobs if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Do you meet the educational requirements but not yet all of the requested experience? The UvA encourages you to apply anyway.

Important to know

Your application & contact

If you recognize yourself in this profile and are interested in the role, we look forward to receiving your motivation letter and CV. You can apply via the red button until 19 October 2025. Interviews will take place in the two weeks after this closing date. In case of equal qualifications, internal candidates will be given preference over external candidates.

For questions about the vacancy, you can contact EJ Wagenmakers ([email protected]).

As an employer, the UvA maintains an equal opportunities policy. We value diversity and are fully committed to being a place where everyone feels at home. We nurture inquisitive minds and perseverance and allow room for persistent questioning. With us, curiosity and creativity are the prevailing culture.
Studies show that women and members of underrepresented groups only apply for jobs if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Do you meet the educational requirements but not yet all of the requested experience? The UvA encourages you to apply anyway.

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