Senior Researcher in Archaeological Network Analysis

2 weeks ago


Århus, Århus Kommune, Denmark Aarhus Universitet (AU) Full time

The Department of Culture, Cognition and Computation at Aarhus University invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher position in archaeological network research. The successful applicant will be part of the Social Resilience Lab, a research group that focuses on leveraging historical and archaeological data to explore the sources of resilience across past and present societies.

The position is associated with the Villum Foundation Synergy project ROMNET, which aims to develop methodological tools to support the archaeological practice of creating material culture similarity networks. The project establishes an interdisciplinary collaboration between archaeologists and network scientists to create the first integrated computational workflow for reconstructing past social networks from material culture data.

The successful applicant will contribute to the development of new methods for analyzing archaeological data and will participate in project activities related to archaeological theory, data collection and analysis. They will collaborate closely with other team members in developing new methods and will be supported by the Aarhus University PI Tom Brughmans.

The position involves a range of tasks, including literature review, data collection, and application of network representation approaches to ceramic data. The successful applicant will also be expected to actively participate in the life of the Social Resilience Lab, engage with a wider academic community, and continue their development as an internationally competitive researcher.

The employment concerns the following main tasks:

  • Archaeology literature review of approaches to network representation of material culture networks, with a particular focus on Roman Studies and the PreHispanic US Southwest
  • Systematic description of archaeological transformation steps from ceramic data to network data, the network methods typically used, and the uncertainties and errors involved
  • Collection of Roman and prehispanic USSW ceramic data from large open databases; collaboration on datasets with project members
  • Application of diverse network representation approaches to ceramic data to inform the development of new method workflow
  • Literature review and categorization of archaeological assumptions about the way in which material culture similarity reflects past social networks, supplemented by reviewing ethnographic and sociological studies with the same focus on material culture
  • Systematic description of the network methods argued to implement these assumptions typically used by archaeologists to analyse ceramic data networks
  • Application of these traditional archaeological approaches to inform new method workflow
  • Closely collaborate with archaeology project members in AU and computer science project members at ITU
  • Attend and actively participate in inperson project meetings, including project travel
  • Actively participate in remote project meetings
  • Present their research at international meetings
  • Publication of project outputs in peerreviewed international journals, and open access code and data
  • Contribute to the organisation of research workshops and international conferences

The successful applicant will be expected to actively participate in the life of The Social Resilience Lab, engage with a wider academic community, and to continue their development as an internationally competitive researcher.

The university is keen for its staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their personal background.

The position will involve a limited amount of teaching as agreed upon with the Head of the Department and the project PIs.

The successful applicant will be expected to exchange knowledge with various sectors of society and to contribute actively to public debate in areas related to the position.

Applicants must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent level of education) in archaeology, history, classics, digital humanities or a related field.

Applicants are asked to submit the following documents:

  • a cover letter stating the relevant experience and projects and motivation for applying for the position (maximum two pages)
  • a cv and a list of publications
  • a maximum of two relevant publications

Applicants must document (essential):

  • doctoral-level experience in handling humanities, archaeological, or historical data to a high scientific standard
  • familiarity with at least one of the Project's research areas (the Roman Empire, the Prehispanic US Southwest)
  • familiarity with or demonstrable interest in network research
  • fluency in written and spoken English
  • evidence of team-playing skills, the ability to constructively collaborate, experience in interdisciplinary work and collegiality

Applicants should highlight (beneficial):

  • an interest in past social networks and resilience
  • knowledge of GIS, Network Science, aoristic methods and general statistics
  • activity in an academic network relevant to the project goals
  • familiarity with databases and openlicences

The research activities will be evaluated in relation to the actual research time.

Only submitted publications will be assessed; a list of publications is not sufficient.

Professional references or recommendations should not be included.

The application must be submitted in English.

The university is keen for its staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified applicants regardless of their personal background.

The position will involve a limited amount of teaching as agreed upon with the Head of the Department and the project PIs.

The successful applicant will be expected to exchange knowledge with various sectors of society and to contribute actively to public debate in areas related to the position.

Applicants must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent level of education) in archaeology, history, classics, digital humanities or a related field.

Applicants are asked to submit the following documents:

  • a cover letter stating the relevant experience and projects and motivation for applying for the position (maximum two pages)
  • a cv and a list of publications
  • a maximum of two relevant publications

Applicants must document (essential):

  • doctoral-level experience in handling humanities, archaeological, or historical data to a high scientific standard
  • familiarity with at least one of the Project's research areas (the Roman Empire, the Prehispanic US Southwest)
  • familiarity with or demonstrable interest in network research
  • fluency in written and spoken English
  • evidence of team-playing skills, the ability to constructively collaborate, experience in interdisciplinary work and collegiality

The Faculty of Arts is one of five main academic areas at Aarhus University.



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