At this stage in the project, we want to ensure the real-world utility of our resources and to make adjustments as needed. We are therefore looking for excellent scholars with established research objectives to join the project and apply their workflows to our data and infrastructure. Foreseen are scholars at either postdoc or professor level.
Key Responsibilities
- Conduct research in your domain using the Impresso infrastructure and data
- Test and provide feedback on the utility of the Impresso infrastructure, with particular focus on the Impresso Datalab for programmatic access to Impresso data
- Identify and showcase novel use cases that can be realised with the Impresso infrastructure, for example by using embeddings to link external collections to the Impresso corpus across languages and modalities
- Develop a Jupyter notebook demonstrating a research case study or workflow using the Impresso Datalab infrastructure
- Present the findings in a conference paper or publication
Your Profile
- Demonstrable experience in humanities research using computational methods
- PhD in history or a related field or, alternatively, a PhD in computer science with experience in conducting historical research
- Established research objectives that can be explored through the Impresso infrastructure and data
- Great communication skills and willingness to work as part of a team
- Strong organisational and project management skills, with a proven ability to meet deadlines
- Fluency in English is required; knowledge of French, German and/or Dutch is considered an asset
Advantageous are
- Knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python
- Knowledge of machine learning, more specifically representation learning
- Knowledge of current debates in media history
- Experience in working with data derived from historical newspaper and radio collections
In a nutshell
- 3 fully funded Visiting Fellowships
- 3-month fellowship based at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH)
- Fellowship period: between 1 August 2026 and 31 May 2027
- Covered costs for travel, housing, and a daily allowance
- Application deadline is 1 July 2026
- Applications must include a CV and a cover letter in English. The cover letter should explain the applicant’s motivation and include a 300-word project outline that can be realised using the Impresso Datalab infrastructure.
- Applications must be submitted by email to Guillaume Grotz
For any questions regarding the visiting fellowships, please contact Asst. Prof. Marten Düring.
The candidate will be based in the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH), a research centre for the study, analysis and public dissemination of contemporary history of Luxembourg and Europe with a particular focus on digital methods and tools for historical research. It serves as a catalyst for innovative and creative scholarship and new forms of public dissemination and societal engagement with history in Luxembourg.
About the Project
Impresso - Media Monitoring of the Past II. Beyond Borders: Connecting Historical Newspapers and Radio is an interdisciplinary research project that leverages an unprecedented corpus of newspaper and radio archives, and uses machine learning to pursue a paradigm shift in the processing, semantic enrichment, representation, exploration and study of historical newspaper and radio collections across modalities, time, languages, and national borders.
Impresso has the objective to innovate historical research practices through original research and through the design and development of novel interfaces to access enriched and semantically linked data across languages and modalities.
Since the start of the project in September 2023, our efforts to build the corpus, develop interfaces for programmatic access have reached a mature level: Via the Impresso Datalab users can e.g. obtain data from several European institutions based on their user status and choose from a variety of pre-produced and well documented Jupyter notebooks to explore and enrich data via API and the Impresso Python library.
Impresso is carried out by the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) and Swiss partners DHLAB at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the University of Lausanne’s History department, the University of Zürich’s Institute for Computational Linguistics. The project is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) and the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR).
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