Student Research Assistant

Student Research Assistant - Centre for International Security (gn)

We are looking for a

Student Research Assistant - Centre for International Security (gn)

part-time (up to 15 hours/week). The contract shall commence as of 01 January 2026 and is limited until 30 June 2026.

The student will work at the Centre for International Security together with Christian Gläßel, Principal Investigator of the DFG-funded project "The Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus: How the Career Pressures of Officers Influence Coups and Repression". The AASAP project examines the inner workings of authoritarian security apparatuses and the career paths of (para)military officers to better understand who participates in state repression or coups and why.

Your tasks:

• Providing research assistance for the DFG-funded project: "The Anatomy of the Authoritarian Security Apparatus: How the Career Pressures of Officers Influence Coups and Repression" (AASAP)
• Planning and conducting archival research, including at the German Federal Archive and the Political Archive of the Federal Foreign Office
• Assisting in data collection by developing and implementing web scraping methods to extract information from online databases and applying OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technologies to digitize and analyze archival documents
• Coding and compiling analysis data sets, including from archival documents
• Proofreading and editing English academic texts
• Further tasks include assistance in the organization of workshops, documentation, and communication of results

Your profile:

• Master's student (Social Sciences or Economics), enrolled at a German university and physically residing in Germany for the duration of employment; students enrolled abroad or on semester/study leave are not eligible
• Excellent command of English
• Excellent analytical and writing skills
• Good skills in working with a script-based statistical programme (e.g., Stata, Python, or R)
• Readiness to work in this position until end of June 2026

We offer:

20 days paid leave + workation

Flexible Working Hours

Good Traffic Connections

International and diverse work environment

Mobile working possible

Remuneration: € 15.00 hourly wage

please submit a CV, cover letter, transcript of records and two writing samples using the button below. Deadline is 31 October 2025 .

Please contact Christian Gläßel, Postdoctoral Researcher, for further information about the position.