About this role
Postdoc - Democratizing AI: Empowering Citizens through Transparent Decision-making UMC Utrecht Functie omschrijving The NWA-DECIDE project seeks to appoint a Postdoctoral researcher (4 years) to join the DECIDE project Democratizing AI: Empowering Citizens through Transparent Decision-making. Dit ga je doen The DECIDE project is a large-scale, NWO-funded interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research initiative coordinated by the University of Twente. It brings together over 50 academic researchers and 30 societal partners to co-develop a new generation of transparent, citizen-empowering AI systems. The project spans domains such as healthcare, mobility, education, law, ethics, and public governance. The position We are seeking a highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the DECIDE project. The position combines unique scientific research with a central role in project integration and coordination across the consortium. Your research focuses on the implementation of AI tools for interdisciplinary societal impact, in particular decision-support systems (AI-DSS) and citizen-support systems (AI-CSS), and on understanding why promising AI tools often fail to translate into robust, trusted instruments in real-world citizen empowerment contexts. What you will deliver This position integrates scientific and managerial responsibilities and ensures scientific integration across the different WPs and use-cases of DECIDE project. The research focuses on the co-design and implementation of AI tools for interdisciplinary societal impact, in particular the decision-support systems (AI-DSS) and citizen-support systems (AI-CSS), and on understanding why promising AI tools often fail to translate into robust, trusted instruments in real-world citizen empowerment contexts. You will: Advance scientific integration and outputs - Act as a bridge between technical researchers (AI, data science) and societal researchers (philosophy,...