Part-time Senior Research Assistant/Research Assistant
- Employment
- Part-time
- Experience
- 3+ years
- English
- B1, required
- Education
- Master's degree
Part-time Senior Research Assistant/Research Assistant in the Department of Information Systems (Appointment for 4 months with possibility of extension) [Ref. T/218/26] Project The Participation Paradox in Decentralized Governance: How Token-Based Incentives Both Enable and Undermine Sustained Participation in DAOs Duties Collect publicly accessible blockchain and governance data, including on-chain voting records, proposals, and discussions in online governance forums, using permitted APIs and responsible web scraping; Develop and maintain Python scripts to extract, clean, standardize, and combine data from different sources; Build well-documented, structured research datasets; check completeness, accuracy, and reproducibility of data collection; and Follow applicable research-ethics and data-protection requirements, website terms, and appropriate access and rate limits.
A Bachelor’s degree or above in Information Systems/Computer Science/Data Science, or a related discipline; Good written and spoken English, attention to detail, and the ability to work independently and document technical work clearly; and Practical proficiency in Python for data collection and processing (e.g. pandas, APIs, Beautiful
Soup, Scrapy, or similar tools); experience with web scraping is highly preferred. Ability to work with structured and semi-structured data (e.g. CSV, JSON); familiarity with SQL and Git would be an advantage. Interest in blockchain, Ethereum, DAOs, or online gover