Research Fellow (PaCE Project) x 2

Post Status: Specific Purpose Contract – Full-time 

Research Group / Department / School: School of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin 

Location: School of Social Sciences and Philosophy Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland 

Reports to: Professor Thomas Chadefaux 

Salary: Appointment will be on the IUA Post-Doctoral Researcher Scale (IUA-Researcher-Salary-Scales) depending on experience and in line with current government pay policy. 

Hours of Work: Fulltime

Post Summary 

The Department of Political Science at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) seeks to appoint an outstanding, enthusiastic, and highly motivated Research Fellow who will contribute to a project that uses machine-learning methods to forecast interstate and civil wars (see forecastlab.org). The successful post holder will be supervised by Professor Thomas Chadefaux. 

The position will commence as soon as possible and continue until December 2026, with the possibility of extension until mid-2027 depending on funding. 

The post-holder will work in an exciting environment alongside a highly creative and motivated team, to acquire and analyse time series data from pre-conflict environments (both interstate and civil war) and apply recent machine learning techniques to forecasting the onset of these events. 

Our group is located in Trinity College, in the heart of Dublin. Trinity was founded in 1592 and is ranked as Ireland’s No 1 University in the QS World University Ranking, the World University Ranking and the Academic Ranking of World Universities. It is a member of the League of European Research Universities. The Department of Political Science consistently ranks number #1 in Ireland, in the top 20 in Europe and in the top 50 in the world (QS rankings). 

Trinity is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to employment policies, procedures and practices which do not discriminate on grounds such as gender, civil status, family status, age, disability, race, religious belief, sexual orientation or membership of the travelling community. On that basis we encourage and welcome talented people from all backgrounds to join our staff community. Trinity’s Diversity Statement can be viewed in full at https://www.tcd.ie/diversity-inclusion/diversity-statement.

Person Specification 

Qualifications

Excellent academic record and have completed or be very close to completion of a Ph.D. in the following (but not limited to): 

• Computer science 

• Engineering 

• Physics 

• Political Science

• Economics