[Commlist] Job vacancy: Research Associate (100%) as part of ComAI research group

Research Associate (f/m/d) wanted as part of the “Communicative AI” 
research group

The University of Bremen is seeking to fill a position at the Center for 
Media, Communication, and Information Research (ZeMKI) starting no 
earlier than January 1, 2026, as a Research Associate (f/m/d) Pay grade 
13 TV-L, full-time (39.2 hours per week), limited to 36 months (in 
accordance with § 2 WissZeit VG) for the development of software for 
communication and media research.

Job description
The position is part of the innovative team at ComAI Research Space in 
Research Group 5656 “Communicative AI: The Automation of Social 
Communication,” which is funded by the DFG and the FWF. The team is 
based in the research group’s coordination project (project 
participants: Prof. Dr. Andreas Hepp, Prof. Dr. Wiebke Loosen, Prof. Dr. 
Christian Katzenbach, Prof. Dr. Cornelius Puschmann, Dr. Gregor Wiedemann).

The research group is investigating how social communication is changing 
with communicative AI. The focus of the first funding phase (2025–2028) 
is on investigating the emergence and construction of communicative AI. 
The research focuses on pioneering communities of communicative AI, 
their interfaces, the legal handling of communicative AI and its 
governance by companies, the appropriation of communicative AI in 
journalism, in public (online) discourse, in everyday personal life, in 
the health sector, and in learning and teaching. The research uses 
highly innovative methods from the social sciences and HCI, including 
digital and computer-assisted methods. Further information on the 
research group and the many opportunities for doctoral studies in this 
context can be found on the website https://www.comai.space.

More information about the position can be found in the detailed job 
advertisment: 
https://zemki.uni-bremen.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Ausschreibung-A212-25.pdf


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