The Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholar program at the UC Berkeley School of Information is designed to allow exceptionally promising young researchers the time to develop their own research while collaborating with leading established faculty. It is designed to accelerate careers, and to maximize the ability of Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholars to build independent research trajectories. To accomplish this, a portion (30-40%) of each post-doc’s time will be reserved for their own independent research and publication efforts, including publishing results from their dissertation. Additionally, all Bellwether Postdoctoral Scholars will work with a mentor or mentors on research projects in specific areas (60-70%). There are several emphasis areas, one of which is relevant to the information visualization community: BPS 5: The goal of this postdoctoral position is to contribute to the development of an empirically-backed theoretical understanding of how people make sense of the combination of graphic and textual information. We seek a scholar with expertise in some combination of information visualization, the psychology of reading and/or diagram interpretation, and cognitive science or neuroscience more generally to investigate human conception at the intersection of language and information visualization. *Expertise in conducting and analyzing eye gaze is a requirement of the position*. Expertise or interest in multimodal information, both cognitively and in large vision and language models is a plus. The mentor for this position is Professor Marti Hearst. Application deadline: Friday, *March 20*, 2026 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time) For full information, see https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05222 -- Marti Hearst Professor, School of Information and Computer Science Former Interim Dean, School of Information University of California, Berkeley