Postdoc position on Foundations for Emergent AI Deception at the University of Copenhagen, start in Autumn 2026
pepa.k....@gmail.com
Would you like to join our lab as a postdoctoral researcher
in autumn 2026? We have an opening on a new project titled “DeceptionWeb:
Foundations for Emergent Deception in Human-AI Interaction”, funded by a
UCPH Convergence Grant and led by Pepa Atanasova from Computer Science, Ingo
Zettler from the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science and Department of
Psychology, and Egor Starkov from Economics.
The project’s goal is to develop a foundational
framework for understanding emergent deception in human-AI interaction by
bringing together machine learning, behavioural psychology, and
economic/game-theoretic perspectives. The postdoc will work at the interface of
Natural Language Processing and behavioural psychology, contributing to
computational approaches for studying deception in human-AI interaction,
controlled experimental settings, and interpretability-based methods for
detecting and understanding deceptive behaviour in AI systems.
The position is offered for one year and nine
months and is open to candidates with a PhD degree or equivalent in Computer
Science or a related field. The ideal candidate would have an educational
background, prior research, or work experience in Natural Language Processing.
Experience with interdisciplinary research, experiments with human
participants, cognitive/personality/social psychology, or behavioural science
is a plus.
The postdoc will join the CopeNLU
research lab, will be jointly supervised by Pepa Atanasova and
Ingo Zettler, and will collaborate with Egor Starkov and the larger
interdisciplinary project team, which also includes a second postdoc bridging
Economics and Psychology and a student assistant.
Read more about the position and apply by 5 July
2026, 23:59 GMT+1. The start date is 1 October 2026 or as soon as possible
thereafter.
https://candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationInit.aspx/?cid=3010&departmentId=19976&ProjectId=163590&MediaId=4917&SkipAdvertisement=false
Pepa Atanasova, Ph.D.
Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU)
University of Copenhagen
Østervold Observatory
Øster Voldgade 3
1350 Copenhagen