TEACHER IN DATA SCIENCE APPLIED TO THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (F/M)
60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris

Working environment and context
Located in the heart of Paris, PSL inspires dialog among and between all areas of knowledge, innovation, and creativity in Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering and the Arts. Selective and committed to equal opportunity, it draws directly from current research to train researchers, entrepreneurs, artists and managers who are aware of their social responsibility, both individual and collective.
With 2,900 researchers, 17,000 students, 140 laboratories and 10 incubators, fab labs and co-working spaces, PSL is a human-scale university. It ranks among the world’s top 50 universities according to the THE (Times Higher Education) and QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings.
Hosting structure
Located in the heart of Paris, PSL combines excellence and diversity to bring together all the areas of knowledge and creation in “hard sciences”, economics and the humanities, but also in engineering and the arts. With 17,000 students and 4,500 teachers and researchers, PSL compares to leading global universities.
PSL is looking for a teacher in data sciences for its undergraduate programs (“CPES Multidisciplinary Undergraduate degree” and “Sustainability sciences”).
The teaching will be targeting first to third year undergraduate students.
For more information: https://www.psl.eu/en
Location :
The various sites of PSL University and its partners, including Lycée Louis-le-Grand (75005), and the ENS campus on boulevard Jourdan (75014).
Teaching mission
Service de la formation
- Build and implement courses in artificial intelligence and data science, including interdisciplinary projects;
- Teaching courses and tutorials;
- Evaluating students' knowledge;
- Following students’ development individually;
- Contributing to various pedagogical activities (student recruitment and evaluation, following student internships and supervising their theses, contributing to juries, etc.);
- Working on the prefiguration of the "Data Science and Culture" CPES track in partnership with Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
NB: The person recruited must be able to work and teach in either French or English.
Subjects taught:
- Introductory courses in quantitative methods for the humanities and social sciences (simple descriptive statistics, inference);
- Tutorials on R, Python and quantitative data production;
- Supervision of student research projects;
- Tutorials on digital tools for the humanities and social sciences;
- Interdisciplinary projects.
Additional teaching activities:
- Individual student mentoring;
- Development and supervision of multidisciplinary projects.
Job conditions :
Yearly teaching load: 384 hours (tutorials or equivalent / “TD ou HeqTD”), which include additional teaching activities
Research mission
Skills
Who can apply?
PhD in sciences (French or international) with:
- a strong expertise in data science, statistics, artificial intelligence,
- a great interest in interdisciplinarity with the humanities and social sciences as well as project-based teaching.
Non discrimination, ouverture et transparence
L'Université PSL s’engage à soutenir et promouvoir l’égalité, la diversité et l’inclusion au sein de ses communautés. Nous encourageons les candidatures issues de profils variés, que nous veillerons à sélectionner via un processus de recrutement ouvert et transparent.
Hiring process
Application process
Send a resume and brief email to introduce yourself and share your motivations to : coralie.chevallier@psl.eu
Contact
Coralie
CHEVALLIER
Vice-présidente de la formation
coralie.chevallier@psl.eu
Other information

TEACHER IN DATA SCIENCE APPLIED TO THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES (F/H)
Hiring date 01/09/2022 | Location 60 rue Mazarine 75006 Paris |
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School PSL |
Working environment and context
Located in the heart of Paris, PSL inspires dialog among and between all areas of knowledge, innovation, and creativity in Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences, Engineering and the Arts. Selective and committed to equal opportunity, it draws directly from current research to train researchers, entrepreneurs, artists and managers who are aware of their social responsibility, both individual and collective.
With 2,900 researchers, 17,000 students, 140 laboratories and 10 incubators, fab labs and co-working spaces, PSL is a human-scale university. It ranks among the world’s top 50 universities according to the THE (Times Higher Education) and QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) rankings.
Hosting structure
Located in the heart of Paris, PSL combines excellence and diversity to bring together all the areas of knowledge and creation in “hard sciences”, economics and the humanities, but also in engineering and the arts. With 17,000 students and 4,500 teachers and researchers, PSL compares to leading global universities.
PSL is looking for a teacher in data sciences for its undergraduate programs (“CPES Multidisciplinary Undergraduate degree” and “Sustainability sciences”).
The teaching will be targeting first to third year undergraduate students.
For more information: https://www.psl.eu/en
Location :
The various sites of PSL University and its partners, including Lycée Louis-le-Grand (75005), and the ENS campus on boulevard Jourdan (75014).
Teaching mission
Service de la formation
- Build and implement courses in artificial intelligence and data science, including interdisciplinary projects;
- Teaching courses and tutorials;
- Evaluating students' knowledge;
- Following students’ development individually;
- Contributing to various pedagogical activities (student recruitment and evaluation, following student internships and supervising their theses, contributing to juries, etc.);
- Working on the prefiguration of the "Data Science and Culture" CPES track in partnership with Lycée Louis-le-Grand.
NB: The person recruited must be able to work and teach in either French or English.
Subjects taught:
- Introductory courses in quantitative methods for the humanities and social sciences (simple descriptive statistics, inference);
- Tutorials on R, Python and quantitative data production;
- Supervision of student research projects;
- Tutorials on digital tools for the humanities and social sciences;
- Interdisciplinary projects.
Additional teaching activities:
- Individual student mentoring;
- Development and supervision of multidisciplinary projects.
Job conditions :
Yearly teaching load: 384 hours (tutorials or equivalent / “TD ou HeqTD”), which include additional teaching activities
Research mission
Skills
Who can apply?
PhD in sciences (French or international) with:
- a strong expertise in data science, statistics, artificial intelligence,
- a great interest in interdisciplinarity with the humanities and social sciences as well as project-based teaching.
Non discrimination, ouverture et transparence
L'Université PSL s’engage à soutenir et promouvoir l’égalité, la diversité et l’inclusion au sein de ses communautés. Nous encourageons les candidatures issues de profils variés, que nous veillerons à sélectionner via un processus de recrutement ouvert et transparent.
Hiring process
Application process
Send a resume and brief email to introduce yourself and share your motivations to : coralie.chevallier@psl.eu
Contact
Coralie CHEVALLIERVice-présidente de la formation
coralie.chevallier@psl.eu
Other information
Position open to BOEs | Reference Enseignant en sciences des données appliquées aux sciences humaines et sociales |
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Université PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres)
