Call for applications for a postdoctoral researcher at JYU.Well
Job description
The research position is part of the Multifaceted Wellbeing profiling area and of the multidisciplinary wellbeing research community JYU.Well at the University of Jyväskylä. Multifaceted wellbeing (alongside JYU.Well as a whole) integrates diverse disciplinary insights into a holistic understanding of wellbeing-related phenomena, thus contributing high relevance to research, policy, and practice. The aim is to consolidate the university's strategy “Wisdom and Wellbeing for us all”.
The Postdoctoral Researcher's duties focus on internationally high-level research specifically in our focus area 4: generating societal impact of wellbeing research by analyzing, developing, and disseminating effective evidence-based interventions, practices, and policy recommendations. The duties include supporting the interdisciplinary development of wellbeing research and activities and participating in acquiring external funding. The Postdoctoral Researcher is also expected to participate in societal interaction together with the JYU.Well community. He or she is expected to develop and apply tools for data-driven or data-enabled decision support in various wellbeing applications (health, rehabilitation, and social care as examples). The amount of teaching duties is rather small.
Qualifications
Candidates for the position are required to provide evidence of research that contributes to wellbeing research, relative to the career stage, and a research plan that demonstrates the ability to link their own research perspectives to the specified JYU.Well focus area, specifically, through exploring and clarifying the diverse wellbeing impacts of decision making at individual, community and/or societal levels. Experience of considering wellbeing impacts through multiobjective optimization tools is considered an asset.
The chosen candidate will be supported by and welcomed to join the Multiobjective Optimization Group at the Faculty of Information Technology. The Multiobjective Optimization Group develops interactive methods and open-source software for supporting decision making in the presence of multiple conflicting objective functions. Multiobjective optimization enables good decisions by utilizing the expertise of decision makers. The mission and focus are not only to understand the data and make forecasts based on data but to enable optimized recommendations and decisions based on the data by finding the best balance among the conflicting objective functions. This means applying decision analytics with multiobjective optimization.
The position offers excellent collaboration networks, as well as access to various types of data and decision-making processes. This is a unique opportunity to work with problems that really matter.
Candidates for the position are required to have, by the end of the application period, a doctoral degree in a relevant field. Research methodological expertise on optimization and decision analytics, provided evidence of interdisciplinary research, and participation in interdisciplinary research projects, as well as practical experience or connections to welfare work are considered an advantage. Programming experience (in Python) would be an asset.
The duties, qualification requirements and language skills of a Postdoctoral Researcher are stipulated by the University of Jyväskylä Regulations and language skills guidelines, which you can get acquianted with by clicking the link below. The qualification requirements must be met by the closing of the application time. Excellent command of Finnish or English is required for this position.
Qualification requirements and language competence requirements
