1 - Working at the VUB
For more than 50 years, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel has stood for freedom, equality and solidarity, and this is very much alive on our campuses among students and staff alike.
At the VUB, you will find a diverse collection of personalities: innovators pur sang, but above all people who are 100% their authentic selves. With some 4,000 employees, we are the largest Dutch-speaking employer, in the private sector, in Brussels; an international city with which we are only too happy to connect and where (around) our 4 campuses are located.
Add to this our principle of free research - in which self-reflection, a critical attitude and an open, creative mind around scientific and social issues are central - and you have a university that is fundamentally groundbreaking and pioneering in education and research. In short: the VUB all over again.
Moreover, the VUB is a member of EUTOPIA, an alliance of like-minded European universities, all ready to reinvent themselves.
2 - Position description
The Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School, Department Business Technology and Operations, Research Group Data Analytics Lab is looking for a PhD-student with a doctoral grant.
More concretely your work package, for the preparation of a doctorate, contains:
You conduct research with a view to obtaining a doctoral thesis.
Research theme:
Within this position, you will be encouraged to conduct research on the interaction between large language models, automated science, and innovation. In this context, large language models can serve both as a tool within the research and as the object of study itself. Examples include: how scientific choices (methodology, references) differ between large language models and human scientists; how we measure the capabilities of large language models in economically and scientifically relevant tasks; how we detect when large language models are trying to cheat; and so on.
You will be involved in the teaching of the department and in particular for the guidance of the exercise sessions for:
Business Informatics
Business Information Systems
You will contribute to the daily functioning of the department.
For this function, our Brussels Humanities, Sciences & Engineering Campus (Elsene) will serve as your home base.