Associate professor/Assistant Professor in AI & Data Mining for Digital His

at  Universit du Luxembourg

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. Founded in 2003, the University of Luxembourg is a research university focused on tomorrow’s major societal challenges, including digital transformation, medicine and health, and sustainable and societal development. With over 1,000 doctoral candidates among 7,500 students as well as 300 professors, the University distinguishes itself with its international and multilingual character, an interdisciplinary approach, and a personalised learning environment.
The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) is an interdisciplinary research centre for the study, analysis and public dissemination of contemporary history of Luxembourg and Europe with a particular focus on digital methods and tools for doing innovative historical research. It serves as a catalyst for innovative and creative scholarship and new forms of public dissemination and societal engagement with history. For more information about C2DH, please visit: https://www.uni.lu/c2dh-en/

We are excited to announce a pioneering new faculty position at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) that will explore the transformative potential of artificial intelligence in the field of historical research and teaching. As AI technologies continue to advance at a rapid pace, we believe it is essential to harness these powerful tools to deepen our understanding of the past and revolutionize the way we study and teach history. This groundbreaking role will be at the forefront of applying AI methodologies to unlock new insights from historical data, enabling us to ask and answer questions that were previously beyond the scope of traditional research methods, and at C2DH you will have a perfect environment in which to experiment and build.
As Professor of AI and History at C2DH you will be responsible for developing and leading an innovative research program that leverages AI technologies to push the boundaries of historical inquiry. You will apply machine learning, natural language processing, and other AI techniques to vast historical, multimodal datasets. By using AI to identify patterns, connections, and trends that might be missed by human researchers, you will offer new perspectives on the past. You will also teach relevant courses to our undergraduate and graduate students and actively participate in our Doctoral Education (Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Doctoral Training Unit on “Deep Data Science of Digital History”). Through your research and teaching, you will help to strengthen the position of the C²DH and the University of Luxembourg as an international leader in the field of digital history and in the application of artificial intelligence to the study of the past in specific.