Humboldt University Berlin / TechTonics Project / Research Fellow (Deadline: Oct. 14th)

[Georgia Bullen]

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From: Katharina Meyer - Program Director Digital Infrastructure Insights Fund
Date: Wed, Oct 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Subject: [DigitalInfrastructureInsightsFund] Job Posting: Humboldt University Berlin / TechTonics Project / Research Fellow (Deadline: Oct. 14th)

Dear all,

Might be of interest to some , (Postdoc)-Position here in Berlin, Deadline for applications is October 14th:

Info:  

https://haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/stellenausschreibungen/dr19725-e 

The Department of Asian and African Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin is hiring a project researcher, who will join the European Research Council-funded project on “Power, Politics and Contestation in Global Technical Standard-Setting (TECHtonics)”, led by Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton.

TECHtonics offers new theoretical and practical insights on the current transformation and contestation in one key arena of global economic governance: international standardization for emerging technologies. 

In Work Package 1 (already underway), the research team is studying the determinants of three “rising standards powers” (China, India and Kenya). 

In Work Package 2, which will commence in early 2026, the team will study the complex forms of contestation now unfolding in international standardization using mixed methods – surveys are combined with in-depth interviews and participant observation. The project is interdisciplinary as it combines insights from the standardization literature, international relations (IR), development studies, legal and regulatory fields as well as area studie

-> Please send your application (including cover letter, CV and relevant certificates), referencing the job ID DR/197/25 to Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Department of Asien and African Studies, Prof. Dr. Sarah Eaton, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin or preferably in electronic form as a single PDF file to the secretary's office of the Department for East Asian Studies: ostasie...@hu-berlin.de and cc to sarah...@hu-berlin.de.

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