Call for postdocs 2025
The Center of Excellence IMSErt at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland is inviting applications from international researchers for a one-year post-doctoral fellowship at CLES NCU (https://cles.umk.pl/). The applicant is expected to have a background in behavioral sciences / cognitive sciences or linguistics and a strong expertise in empirical methods.
Although this is not an obligatory requirement, having ANY of the following or similar skillsets would be an advantage: planning and conducting behavioral experiments, VR designs, eyetracking, motion capture, video data annotation and analysis, big data, statistical analysis of data and programming.
The applicant is expected to collaborate with the CLES members in conducting research as well as share her/his expertise and skills during the Center’s weekly seminars and designated workshops. The applicant will have access to the Center’s research equipment (see below) and will receive support in organising and conducting research, including additional funding for research and/or mobility, and an online platform for recruiting participants.
The applicant will be employed on the basis of a task contract for a fixed term of 3 to 10 months, with a monthly pay of ca. 10 000 PLN (pre-tax). Note the affordability of Torun when compared to the European average – e.g. https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/in/Torun.
Proposed start: February 2025 (negotiable)
If interested, please inquire at wacewicz [at] umk [dot] pl
CLES: CLES is an international and interdisciplinary team conducting research on a range of linguistic and human-evolutionary phenomena. Our members come from Poland, Belarus, Czechia, Germany, Iran, Italy, Malaysia, Russia and Spain (formerly also Austria, China and Sweden), with academic backgrounds in archaeology, biology, chemistry, cognitive science, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and psychology. Currently we are working on about 10 externally funded projects (see https://cles.umk.pl/research/ ). Our lab is located in Collegium Maius in the beautiful Old Town of Toruń. It houses state-of-the-art equipment and software, including Rokoko Motion Capture Suit SmartSuit Pro II; Varjo XR-3; EyeLink 1000 Plus; Biopac biometrics set (HRV, EDA, others); and a range of software licences including E-Prime with Chronos, LabVanced, nVivo and SPSS.
IMSErt: the Center of Excellence IMSErt – Interacting minds, societies, environments (https://imsert.umk.pl/en/) is one of the five centers of excellence at NCU Torun. It conducts research in linguistics, archaeology, psychology, history of knowledge, memory studies, social geography, environmental studies, economics, finance and management.
NCU Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, the largest university in northern Poland, is now part of the Excellence Initiative – Research University, which is implemented at ten best universities in Poland.
Toruń: the city of Toruń has a very strong reputation as one of the most beautiful cities in Poland – it is enlisted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the Seven Wonders of Poland. It is also the birthplace of Nicolaus Copernicus, and a world-famous hometown of gingerbread – still manufactured to a 500-year-old recipe.