The Laboratory for the History of Science and Technology (LHST) at EPFL invites applications for one full-time PhD position within the EPFL PhD program in Digital Humanities (EDDH), working at the intersection between computer science and history.

The successful candidate will analyze a large multilingual corpus of historical patents (18th-20th century, mostly in German and in English) to develop their own research project around the following historical and methodological topics: the history of technological innovation; the rise and development of intellectual property; the evolution of legal and technological language; semantic information extraction by combining text-based and image-based methods; alignment and document analysis of textual and pictorial publications; the development of a representation model for complex historical sources. The successful candidate will be joining another PhD student already working on the corpus.

More information about profil and offer can be found here:
https://eadh.org/news/2021/02/03/fully-funded-phd-position-digital-humanities-ecole-polytechnique-federale-de

Starting date: September 1, 2021 (flexible)

Duration: 4 years.

Terms of employment: Fixed-term at 100% work rate. EPFL offers internationally competitive salaries and generous research support.

Deadline for application: April 30, 2020.

How to apply: Via the EPFL doctoral school online application (please note that only completed applications will be reviewed). For further information about applying for a PhD at EPFL, see the page PhD admission criteria and application.

Contact: For more information about the position, please contact jerome.baudry@epfl.ch.