Postdoctoral Position in Causal Machine Learning at TU Dortmund University TU Dortmund University in Germany

We’re hiring a postdoc in Explainable AI × Causal Inference at the University of Potsdam . The position is part of CRC 1294 “Data Assimilation” and sits in the AI in the Sciences group, working closely with Jakob Runge’s group and Marina Höhne’s group. The research focus combines causal discovery , effect estimation , approaches based on prior-data fitted networks (PFNs) , and concept-based XAI , including the study of causal mechanisms inside neural networks. This is a full-time E13 TV-L role, ...

This Ph.D. project is hosted by the Emmy Noether research group “Causality and Representation Learning for Interventional Foundation Models” at the Professorship of AI for Scientific Modeling on the Garching Campus of the Technical University of Munich . The position sits at the interface of machine learning and statistics , with a focus on questions in causality and representation learning. The successful candidate will contribute to research on robust methods for causal representation learning...

PhD position in Economics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) , Campus Weihenstephan near Munich, in the WETTER project supported by the Joachim Herz Prize 2026 (Joachim Herz Stiftung). The project studies household water conservation in Germany using large-scale randomized field experiments and high-frequency smart-meter data . The research sits at the intersection of environmental economics and behavioral economics , with a strong empirical and experimental focus. The successful candid...

Master Thesis Opportunity at Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH , Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Energy Systems Engineering (ICE-1), in the Living Lab Energy Campus (LLEC) project. The thesis focuses on hybrid ML + LLM-based fault detection and explainability for smart building IoT systems . The research setting includes large office buildings equipped with multiple IoT devices per room, transmitting real-time data such as window/door opening states, room air quality, luminance, and occupa...

Heidelberg University’s Institute for Mathematics is recruiting for its Scientific Machine Learning research group led by Prof. Dr. Jakob Zech . The position combines research, teaching, programme support and technical development in an environment that bridges mathematics, machine learning, data science and high-performance computing. The appointee will contribute to the new Master’s programme Mathematics of Machine Learning and Data Science (MMLDS) , helping with its implementation and further...