The Munich School of Politics and Public Policy (HfP), with its affiliation to the Technical University of Munich (TUM), deals with the multifaceted interactions between politics, society, business, and technology in research, teaching and practice. It was established by the Bavarian State Parliament based on a separate law.

The Professorship “Algorithmic Governance and Public Policy” focuses on the policy, ethical, and societal implications of algorithmic decision-making across public and private domains. Our team combines cutting-edge computational techniques with traditional social science methods and we are equally interested in methodological innovation and in the broader consequences of automation for democratic institutions. Prof. Gritsenko is a political scientist who has carried out qualitative, quantitative, and experimental research on topics of policy and governance, including energy, environment, and digital transformation.

This position is part of an ERC Starting Grant awarded to Associate Professor Daria Gritsenko (Principal Investigator) for a project examining how perceptions of legitimacy are shaped and changed in the minds of individuals in the context of algorithmic governance. The AGAPP project integrates methods from cognitive science with focus groups and survey experiments to explore how people evaluate the legitimacy of algorithmic governance in the context of migration policy. The project team collects quantitative and qualitative data to study how people use heuristics to judge legitimacy of algorithmic systems of rule, with the view to building theory of legitimacy for the digital age.

We are particularly looking for candidates with:

- an interest in cognition, legitimacy, and algorithmic decision-making,
- solid quantitative and qualitative methodological skills,
- experience in experimental research with human participants,
- and the ability to work both independently and collaboratively in an international research team.

The position offers an excellent research environment, strong support for publications and international fieldwork.

Detailed information can be found here.

Application deadline: 06.02.2026