Postdoc

The UC Berkeley Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public (the Kavli Center) is a multi-disciplinary academic center that aims to break down the barriers that separate the sciences, humanities, and the public from each other; providing an inclusive, multi-disciplinary framework for understanding the ethical implications of science and technology, training the next generation, and helping scientific advances be answerable to fundamental human interests.

The flagship program of the Kavli Center is our Graduate and Postdoc Fellowship Program. Discoveries in science and technology are moving quickly from basic research to real-world applications, sometimes with societal-scale impact, and scientists are increasingly encountering challenges that fall outside their expertise. We need a new kind of training that prepares scientists to confront the current and future ethical challenges of their fields, and that creates social scientists, philosophers, journalists, and policymakers who are able to work with scientists and diverse communities to ensure that the applications of scientific discoveries protect and advance fundamental human interests.

The center is entering its second cohort of fellows. The successful applicant for this position will join ongoing and new postdoc and graduate fellows from fields such as the sciences, humanities, social sciences, and professional fields to work at the center, bridge disciplinary and sector boundaries, and be a part of a new kind of community. Depending on the postdoc’s specific research objectives and methods, Professor Jodi Halpern, and/or Professor Stuart Russel, Co-Directors of the Kavli Center, will serve as the faculty supervisor for the postdoctoral scholar.