Call for 2025 Summer Research Associates
Come spend the summer at the Topos Institute! For early-career researchers, we’re excited to open up applications for our 2025 Summer Research Associate program.
For early-career researchers, we’re excited to open up applications for our Summer Research Associate (RA) program. Full time, hourly, temporary positions are available for 8–10 weeks each, starting in June and ending in August, in person in the Berkeley, California office. Each position will be mentored by Topos research staff or a select number of invited mentors. Each Summer Research Associate will complete a specific Topos project, and will write a blog post by the last week of their employment. These projects may include an internal talk, work on a book, or publication.
Along the way, RAs will also participate in our weekly lunches and seminars, blog about their time here, and produce papers, books, software, or policy, according to the parameters of their project.
Topics for this year’s program may include:
- Computational category theory using CatColab (Rust/Typescript skills recommended)
- Double category theory
- Categorical statistics
- Polynomial functors
- Interacting dynamical systems
- Hybrid dynamical systems, attractor theory and fast-slow dynamics
- Proof assistants and structure editors
- Program synthesis and spec generation
- Computational logical expressivism
- Philosophical and ethical aspects of applied category theory
Summer RAs are an important part of life at Topos — they help explore new directions relevant to Topos projects, and they bring new ideas, energy, and expertise to our research groups.
You can read more about all the past RAs and their projects on the Summer RA page, or read about each year’s cohort by following the links in the captions below.
As part of our commitment to building a world where the systems that surround us benefit us all, we particularly encourage applications from those whose life experiences may be underrepresented in the Topos community – your perspectives are important, and we want them to be heard at Topos.
Applications are now open. The position is full-time (~40 hours per week) and paid at a rate between 30 and 45 USD per hour, depending on experience. Unfortunately, Topos is not able to sponsor US work visas for participants.
For full details on how to apply, see the call for applications below. Note that the deadline for applications is January 17th, 2025.