Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (tenure track) (UOL06649)

at  University of Luxembourg EschsurAlzette L

CONTRACT TYPE:ACADEMIC - FIXED TERM

The University of Luxembourg (https://www.uni.lu/en/) is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character.
The Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE)(https://www.uni.lu/fhse-en/) brings together expertise from the humanities, linguistics, cognitive sciences, social sciences and educational sciences. Scholars from across 20 disciplines are working within the Faculty. Along with disciplinary approaches, a very ambitious interdisciplinary research culture has been developed.
The Faculty’s research and teaching focuses on social, economic, political and educational issues with the common goal of contributing to an inclusive, open and resourceful society. The FHSE offers seven Bachelor’s and twenty Master’s degrees and hosts a doctoral school providing students with the necessary knowledge and high-qualified skills to succeed in their future careers.
The Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Sciences (https://www.uni.lu/fhse-en/research-departments/department-of-behavioural-and-cognitive-sciences/) within the Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Science is seeking a leading academic to join its team as Associate Professor or Assistant Professor (tenure track) of Social Psychology.

The holder of the position will conduct research and teaching in Social Psychology, with a focus on the social psychology of decision making.
The holder will have expertise in decision making, preferably in (but not limited to) the domain of health/medical decision making, or decision making with relevance for sustainable and climate-friendly behavior, or political decision making, addressing phenomena like polarization of society, false information, or conspiracy.

The holder will also have:

• expertise in experimental social psychology
• mentoring and management experience
• interdisciplinary orientation
• experience with public outreach
• visibility in the scientific community
• dedication to the principles of transparent and open science

Teaching areas:
The holder of the position will teach Social Psychology in the Bachelor in Psychology programme, and contribute to teaching in the Master programmes in psychology as well as in the Psychology Track of the Doctoral School.
The holder will also teach classes on experimental and/or statistical methodology at the Bachelor’s, Master’s and Doctoral level.