Postdoc in Social (Dis)connections and Generative AI at Maastricht University Maastricht University in Netherlands

PhD Position in Causal Inference at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU), Netherlands. This opening is hosted by the Department of Mathematics within the Faculty of Science . The research environment emphasizes both pure and applied mathematics, with links to statistics, data analytics, probability, and interdisciplinary applications. Research area: causal inference, mathematics, statistics, probability, data analytics. Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands. Deadline: 25 September 2026. Interested candi...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is advertising a fully funded PhD position in causal inference within the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Science in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The project is part of the Safe Causal Inference consortium and focuses on triangulation of performance assessment methods for conditional causal quantities . The research asks how to reliably evaluate estimators of conditional causal effects, including CATE estimators and predictions under interventions, when evalua...

Leiden University’s Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) is offering a full-time postdoctoral position in causal machine learning for spatio-temporal datasets . The project focuses on developing advanced algorithmic methods for the automatic and scalable assessment of interventions in observational spatio-temporal data. The research sits at the intersection of machine learning, causality, and algorithm design, with applications such as reducing methane emissions, understanding p...

PhD position at the University of Amsterdam on the effects of incorporating emotion-sensitive AI into politics and policymaking. This opening is part of the interdisciplinary A.I. Feels project, which examines how emotion-sensitive AI chatbots used by politicians and civil servants may shape policymaking and democracy. The PhD researcher will work on sub-project 1, focusing on how emotions are expressed in chatbot outputs generated in response to prompts relevant to policymakers. The project sit...

Maastricht University is advertising a PhD position on reducing avoidance by altering threat imagery in panic disorder . The project sits at the intersection of psychology , clinical psychology , anxiety disorders , mental imagery , experimental psychopathology , statistics , and computational modelling . The research will investigate whether imagery rescripting can reduce avoidance in panic disorder by targeting distressing flashbacks and flashforwards linked to aversive memories. The PhD candi...