Assistant Professor - Information Science

About the role

The School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for appointment to the faculty at the Assistant Professor rank.

Responsibilities

• Address key questions related to metadata design and its social consequences.
• Analyze the relationship between information, misinformation, and disinformation, and explore the social psychological factors behind their spread.
• Design and audit data and information systems, and consider the governance implications.
• Evaluate the collective creation of information across different domains such as scholarly publishing and social media content.
• Examine the unintended consequences of information systems in various real-world contexts including science, health, policy, business, law, or other areas.

Requirements

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Qualifications

• PhD in Information Science, Library Science, or a closely related field.
• Research expertise in one or more of the following areas: information seeking, information management, information use, information architecture, information retrieval, informatics, digital humanities, cultural analytics, information visualization, information economics, information provenance, information veracity, and the philosophy of information.
• Strong record of research productivity, including publications in peer-reviewed journals and conferences.
• Excellent teaching skills and potential to contribute to the academic community.

Skills

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Benefits

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Pay

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Schedule

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Application Instructions

Application deadline: November 1, 2025 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time).

To apply, please visit this link.