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Are you passionate about uncovering and addressing vulnerabilities in AI systems, from algorithms to hardware?  

The Department of Political Science is looking for a PhD candidate to work in the “Doctoral Network Democratic Institutions and Violence Network in Europe (DIViNE)” project, funded by the HORIZON MSCA action. The candidate will be supervised by Dr. Abbey Steele (University of Amsterdam) and Dr. Juan Masullo (University of Milan) and join a network of 10 PhD candidates across five universities. At the University of Amsterdam, the PhD candidate will be part of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) programme group Political Institutions and Identities (PII).DIViNE brings together leading European research environments — UvA (Amsterdam), UESSEX (Essex), UMIL (Milan), UC3M (Carlos III de Madrid) and UU (Uppsala) — and partner organizations to combine complementary strengths in quantitative conflict research, behavioral and experimental methods, historical and archival inquiry, institutional and normative theory, and applied policy engagement.

The super-rich avoid and evade personal taxation a great deal, but why are they so tax-averse? Is it simply what anyone would do, given the opportunity? Or is it their social environment that makes them think avoiding and evading is appropriate? UvA’s Political Science department has two vacancies for PhD candidates to tackle these questions.