CBS Post-Doctoral Fellow in Algorithmic Sustainability

This post is partly funded by the ‘ADD – Algoritmer, Data & Demokrati’ project funded by the Velux and Villum Foundations. This project is led by Professor Nørholm Sine Just at Roskilde University and the co-PI at CBS is Professor Leonard Seabrooke in the Department of Organization. Seabrooke is responsible for the work package on Financial Transparency that is based in the Department of Organization and will mentor the Post-Doctoral Fellow. Both positions are for 36 months, with a starting date on January 1, 2026 or soon thereafter.
The ADD Financial Transparency project is concerned with how forms of professional diagnosis, inference, and treatment in the financial sector, including taxation and insurance, are changing as professionals work more with algorithms. The two advertised positions are part of a sub-project on Algorithmic Sustainability in association with Professor Christina Lioma and her Machine Learning research team in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen. The sub-package focuses on the environmental and economic trade-offs involved in the corporate expansion of AI. The following questions are relevant to the two post-doctoral positions:

1. What environmental and economic trade-offs are present in the corporate expansion of AI usage through enterprise software. How do these interests ensure their market share, control the regulatory environment, and show accountability for their environmental impact?
2. How can international regulatory and reporting standards reflect the actual environmental damage from AI use? What networks have been formed to influence regulation? How can we identify the ‘real cost’ of AI usage and what professional, financial and legal practices are used to mask or uncover real AI-related emissions?

The project is one of issue-areas being investigated in the ADD consortium, the others include cybersecurity and private life, predictive algorithms in public administration, health policy, and innovation. The Post-Doctoral Fellow is expected to produce original research work on the political economy of algorithmic sustainability within the context of the questions above (one question per position, not both). Familiarity with computational methodologies will be an advantage, given the overall team will be working across both political economy and computer science.

The Department of Organization (IOA) pursues a problem-oriented, business in society approach to understanding and intervening in organizations and organizational life. Our research is focused upon organizing processes and their outcomes and motivated by an interest in organization and management as a practical, situated, contested and changing matter. Our approach is interdisciplinary and combines social-scientific traditions such as organization theory, sociology, ethnography, political economy, and social psychology. Researchers in our department draw on a range of different research methodologies encompassing qualitative and quantitative techniques.
The position comes with some teaching duties. Teaching responsibilities of the Department of Organization comprise undergraduate and graduate teaching across a range of programs. Examples include:

• Organization Theory
• Organizational Analysis
• International Political Economy
• Comparative Political Economy
• Research Design and Methodologies
• Social Network Analysis

More description of the department, research areas and projects can be found here: https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-organization
The Post-Doctoral Fellow is a non-tenured position and has both research and teaching obligations (66% research, 34% teaching).
To fulfill the research requirements of the position, the applicant(s) chosen is expected to be physically present on a regular basis and actively participate in the teaching and research activities of the Department. The successful applicant is obliged to participate in the assistant professor program at CBS on teaching principles and methods in order to fulfill the pedagogical requirements made at the end of the term of employment as assistant professor.

The Post-Doctoral Fellow is expected to contribute to the development and application of the research of the department’s research areas and to maintain and strengthen CBS’s international research position.

Qualification
The applicant must hold a PhD or the equivalent. In assessing applications, particular emphasis will be placed on research potential. Emphasis is placed on research relevant to the job description.

The applicant must have professional proficiency in English (written and spoken).
Copenhagen Business School has a broad commitment to the excellence, distinctiveness and relevance of its teaching and research programmes. Candidates who wish to join us should demonstrate enthusiasm for working in an organisation of this type (highlighting, for example, relevant business, educational and dissemination activities).

For further information, please contact: Leonard Seabrooke, +45 3815 2449, e-mail: qcooklse.ioascooper@jacobson.dktaylor.dkhenry.dkcbs.dk.
Appointment and salary will be in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’s agreement with the Central Academic Organisation.
Application
Application must be sent via the electronic recruitment system, using the link below.
Application must include:

1. A summary of the candidate’s main strengths and abilities. This should include a proposed research agenda to tackle one of the above questions (3-5 pages).
2. A complete, numbered list of publications (indicating titles, co-authors, page numbers and year) with an * marking of the academic productions to be considered during the review. A maximum of 5 publications for review are allowed. Applicants are requested to prioritize their publications in relation to the field of this job advertisement.
3. Copies of the publications marked with an *. Only publications written in English (or another specified principal language, according to research tradition) or one of the Scandinavian languages will be taken into consideration)
4. Documentation of relevant, significant, original research at an international level.
5. Transcript(s) and a full CV.

Recruitment procedure
The Recruitment Committee will shortlist a minimum of two applicants, when possible five or more applicants will be shortlisted. The shortlisted applicants will be assessed by the Assessment Committee. All applicants will be notified of their status in the recruitment process shortly after the application deadline.

The applicants selected for the assessment will be notified about the composition of the Assessment Committee and later in the process about the result of the assessment.

Once the recruitment process is completed each applicant will be notified of the outcome of their application.

Copenhagen Business School must receive all application material, including all appendices (see items above), by the application deadline.

Details about Copenhagen Business School and the department are available at www.cbs.dk.

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