PhD supervision

The Laboratory for Social and Cognitive Informatics assists with admission to postgraduate studies and affiliation as doctoral applicants for candidates who are prepared to work on their dissertations within the framework of the research team's current projects, with full involvement in collaborative work. Such candidates are employed at the laboratory as research interns or junior fellow researchers on a full‑time basis with a stable salary and access to SCILa's resources, including equipment, data, and team support.

Research areas and supervisors:
Computer Sciences - Sergey Koltcov
Sociology - Olessia Koltsova, Yadviga Sinyawskaya
Linguistics - Olessia Koltsova, Elena Artemenko

If you would like your future dissertation project to be carried out at our laboratory, you are welcome to send your CV and a short motivation letter outlining your research ideas and indicating your field (sociology, psychology, computer science) to our address: linis-spb@hse.ru. The admission rules and other official documents for postgraduate studies are available here; foreign citizens may apply for postgraduate admission on a quota basis.
It is best to contact the laboratory at the beginning of the academic year preceding admission to postgraduate studies. This provides an opportunity to participate in the team's activities and to prepare a portfolio for the Olympiad, which is held each spring and offers the chance to receive up to 100 points for the subject-specific entrance exam. The postgraduate entrance examinations are held in September.

The laboratory supervises dissertations in the following specialties:

Computer Science (postgraduate studies), supervisor – Koltsov S.

Sociology (postgraduate studies), supervisors – Koltsova O., Mararitsa L.

Psychology (applicant), supervisor – Mararitsa L.

Graduate students and applicants are employed to the laboratory as research interns or junior researchers and have access to the lab resources, including equipment, data, and team support. As a rule, graduate students participate in the lab projects.

If you want your future dissertation project to be carried out in our laboratory, you can send your CV and a short motivation letter with research proposal and indicating the direction (sociology, psychology, computer science) to our address linis-spb@hse.ru. The rules for admission and other official documents of postgraduate studies can be found here: http://spb.hse.ru/postgrad/; foreign citizens can enroll in graduate school on a quota basis.

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