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Go to the homepage of Work at the University of Amsterdam We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in information science and information law to do research into the legal and governance aspects of trustworthy digital identity solutions. Your research will be part of "Foundations for Identity and Trust at EU‐Scale", a NWO research project. "Foundations for Identity and Trust at EU‐Scale" is an interdisciplinary consortium with the goal of creating trustworthy digital identity infrastructures. We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher with a profile in information science and information law to do research into the legal and governance aspects of trustworthy digital identity solutions. Your research will be part of "Foundations for Identity and Trust at EU‐Scale", a NWO research project. "Foundations for Identity and Trust at EU‐Scale" is an interdisciplinary consortium with the goal of creating trustworthy digital identity infrastructures. The goal of the research is to conduct doctrinal, normative, theoretical and empirical research into the trustworthiness safeguards of digital identity systems, and translate those insights into concrete governance frameworks. In the process we plan to identify a set of independently verifiable safeguards (legal, technical, economic, and governance‐based) that make a digital identity system stack trustworthy; and design and execute qualitative and preferably quantitative empirical studies to measure the relationship between the objective trustworthiness safeguards and their relationship to users' subjectively placed (dis)trust in the technology. To help addressing these questions, we are looking for a postdoc with several years of experience in doing interdisciplinary research at the intersection of information law, digital technologies, (preferably digital identity systems), trust and trustworthiness, and technology governance. Your role will be to help manage the UvA con...