PhD Student Computational Modelling of Adolescents' Climate Friendly Choice

You will, in cooperation with your fellow PhD student:

• Develop materials for a reinforcement learning task to assess climate-friendly choices;

• Develop and test a computational model and estimation procedure in R;

• Gather data in a diverse adolescent sample;

• Pre-register studies, write results up in peer-reviewed journals, present them at (inter)national conferences;

• Actively participate in the communication with adolescents to gather input on how to set up studies, and to discuss the implications of outcomes of these studies;

• Develop an educational package for high school students end project (‘’profielwerkstuk”);

• Devote 5% of your time to supervision of bachelor or master students performing research related to your project.

• You have a (research) master in the behavioural or cognitive or computer or sustainability sciences, or you will obtain the degree before the 1st of February 2025. 

• You have at least one year of programming experience in R. 

In addition, you satisfy some (nobody fits all of the criteria) of the requirements listed below:

• You have a genuine interest in computational modelling of human behaviour, for example, by means of reinforcement learning models;

• You have a genuine interest in adolescent development, sustainability science, or behaviour change;

• You have demonstrable experience in Bayesian modelling;

• You are accurate, constructive, and creative;

• You have good writing and presentation skills;

• You value open science;

• You have the ability to function well both in a team as well as independently;

• You can start between the 1st of February and the 1st of April 2025.

The position concerns temporary employment of 38 hours per week for a maximum term of four years. The initial employment is for one year. Following a positive assessment and barring altered circumstances, this term will be extended to four years in total, which should result in the conferral of the doctorate. We will put together a curriculum which will also include the opportunity to attend training courses and both national and international events.

Part-time is negotiable, which will result in a longer contract with a maximum of 5 years. It may also possible to add a teaching component to the contract, which will also result in a longer contract, of approximately 4.5 years.