Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d): Modeling Human Behavior and Cognition with Archived Psychological Research Data

The Leibniz Institute for Psychology (ZPID) in Trier offers a full-time, 24-month postdoctoral position (TV-L E13) in a project funded by the High-Tech-Agenda Rheinland-Pfalz that uses ZPID's archived, high-quality psychological research data to model human behaviour and cognition with large language models. The postdoc will fine-tune and evaluate open-source LLMs for predicting human behaviour and cognition; retrieve, pre-process and curate psychological survey, experimental and (neuro)physiological datasets; build psychological benchmark databases for training and testing LLMs; publish the results; and supervise research assistants.

The preferred start is as soon as possible after 1 January 2027, with flexible hours and partial remote work. Frederic Hopp is the contact for the position.

PhD in (computational) psychology, computer science or a related field; experience employing, fine-tuning and evaluating large language models; interest in data science and cognitive AI; very good English, German an advantage. Cover letter, CV, degree certificates and two references.