[Air-L] Ph.D. position at Eindhoven University of Technology

[Uwe Matzat]

Dear colleagues,

we still have a vacancy to offer for an interested student with knowledge in quantitative 
methods of data analysis. The Ph.D. position at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) is 
funded for 4 years. If you are interested in analyzing disclosure and use of information in 
different social contexts then you should consider applying. Deadline is December 18. 

I'm available for any questions you might have.

Best regards,
Uwe Matzat
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The Eindhoven University of Technology has the following vacancy

PhD student on the project "Surfing the information waves: Finding, revealing, and evaluating 
information online"

at the School of Innovation Sciences.

Job description
The Ph.D. student is expected to do research leading to a Ph.D. thesis in the project "Surfing 
the information waves: Finding, revealing, and evaluating information online". At the core of 
this project lies the question how people deal with the reliability of information on the Internet, 
to what extent the formal and informal mechanisms that facilitate reliable exchange of 
information offline have online equivalents, and to what extent new online mechanisms and 
tools are and can be developed to facilitate reliable information exchange.

Typical questions of interest are: How do people discern useful and reliable information from 
useless and unreliable information in online settings? How can users be motivated to provide 
reliable information and how can the provision of unreliable information be minimized? To 
what extent do the answers to these questions depend on the kind of online setting? For the 
project we anticipate doing research in several areas of application, such as medical 
information sites and groups, social networking sites (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Plaxo, 
Xing, etc), and general economic and consumer sites, such as eBay, Amazon.

Requirements
The candidate should have a Masters degree (or equivalent) in the social sciences 
(sociology, psychology, political or communication science), excellent knowledge and skills in 
quantitative methods of data analysis, and familiarity with new forms of online 
communication. Most of all, we are looking for someone with a natural curiosity with respect 
to online interaction of any kind. Knowledge about theories pertaining to the topic in (social) 
psychology or sociology would be an additional asset. The candidate should be proficient in 
English (speaking and writing).

Organization
The candidate will work at the school of Innovation Sciences at the Department of 
Technology Management at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL), at the Chair of 
Sociology of Technology and Innovation. Research interests in and around that chair 
generally include the way in which humans interact with technology and how that interaction 
can be improved, both from the user-level as from the level of policy- making. Additional 
information can be found at:

http://www.tue-tm.org/snijders/PhD/

Conditions of employment
We offer a (full-time) Ph.D. position for 4 years. Gross salaries are in the range of EUR 28K 
gross per annum in the first year and EUR 35K during the fourth year and include attractive 
benefits (e.g. technical infrastructure, child care, sports facilities). A small teaching load can 
be part of the job.



Application
Send your application or requests for further information by email to Prof. dr. C. Snijders 
(c.c.p.snijders `at´ tue.nl). The application should consist of a motivation for your application, 
and extended curriculum vitae, a description of your obtained scientific degree, and a list of 
courses and the grades you obtained for those courses.
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Uwe Matzat
Sociology Section, Department of Technology Management
Eindhoven University of Technology
P.O. Box 513, 5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
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phone +31 40 247-8392, fax +31 40 247-4646
http://www.tue-tm-soc.nl/~matzat
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