[gep-ed] Four vacant doctoral positions within ERC project TwinPolitics

[Alice Vadrot]

Dear colleagues and friends,

Today is the official start date of my new ERC Project entitled “Unlocking the full potential of digital twins for sustainable ocean futures” (2024-2029).

I am happy to announce that we have four vacant doctoral positions within my research group at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna (Faculty of Social Sciences).

Emerging digital twin technology holds promise in future solutions on governance and the mitigation of urgent environmental challenges. Digital twins are a method for analysing complex systems and developing "what-if" scenarios. The central objective of TwinPolitics is to investigate the development of digital twins as a (geo)political phenomenon that could permanently transform the interface between science and politics.  

Embedded into a multidisciplinary team, the doctoral students will collaborate and engage with different social science methods to study the role of digital twins in global environmental agreement-making. This includes fieldwork at negotiations related to marine biodiversity, plastic pollution, and deep-seabed mining. The doctoral students are expected to write a doctoral thesis in the rapidly emerging area of marine-policy, politics, and data.  

Application deadline: 24^th July 2024 

To the tender 

Feel free to circulate the call within your networks.

Best wishes

Alice (Vadrot)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alice Vadrot Associate Professor PI of ERC-Project TwinPolitics
University of Vienna Department of Political Sciences Kollingasse 14, 5.08, 1090 Vienna ✉️ alice....@univie.ac.at 📞 Office +43-1-4277-49455 https://twinpolitics.eu/ www.alicevadrot.eu https://x.com/TwinPolitics

Recent publications:

Vadrot, Alice B.M. and Wanneau, Krystel (2024). The social science side of marine biodiversity monitoring. ICES Journal of Marine Science.

Langlet, Arne and Vadrot, Alice B.M. (2024). Expert Authority Politics in the Marine Biodiversity Complex. Global Environmental Politics, 1–24.

Langlet, Arne and Vadrot, Alice B.M. (2023). Negotiating regime complexity: Following a regime complex in the making. Review of International Studies, 1-21.

Hughes, H., & Vadrot, A. (Eds.). (2023). Conducting Research on Global Environmental Agreement-Making. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.