PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Causal Inference in Germany

The Professorship of Environmental Economics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) , Campus Weihenstephan, is offering a doctoral research position in environmental and behavioral economics . The PhD researcher will join the WET-TER project —Water Efficiency through Technology, Targeting, and Experimental Research—which investigates how sustainable household behavior can be encouraged through technology, targeting, and experimental approaches. The project involves large-scale field experim...

German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover is offering a Research Associate / Doctoral Researcher position in Natural Language Processing and Causal AI for Scientific Reasoning within the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) and the Data Science and Digital Libraries Research Group led by Prof. Dr. Sören Auer . The project is part of the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence project EcoAIRE , which combines computational NLP expertise at TIB, ecology at the Leibniz Institute ...

PhD position in community ecology, stone tool use, and social behavior in gracile capuchin monkeys at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior in Konstanz, Germany , within the Ecology of Animal Societies and the ISLaS group led by Brendan Barrett . The project is part of the IMPRS-QBEE doctoral program and offers a flexible start in summer/autumn 2027 . The position is fully funded for 4 years (TVöD E-13, 65%). Two project directions are available: (A) community ecology of stone tool use in ...

PhD Researcher opportunity at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany, focused on economic impacts from complex climate risks . The project sits in the Carl Zeiss Stiftung Independent Research Group on High-End Climate Risks (CZS-HECR) and is part of an interdisciplinary environment combining climate physics, Earth system analysis, advanced statistics, machine learning, explainable AI, and societal impact research. The doctoral researcher will investigate the economic impact...

The Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology – BIPS GmbH in Bremen, Germany, is recruiting several Statistician (Postdoc or PhD candidate) positions for work in methodological and applied health research. The positions are embedded in the institute’s broader prevention research programme, with strong links to large epidemiological cohort studies, the NAKO Health Study, and secondary health insurance data. Research will be organized around one of five methodological themes: Caus...

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, ...

Two postdoctoral openings are available in Computational Precision Nutrition at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) . The department focuses on developing methods and software for personalized health recommendations based on dietary patterns, behaviors, and diet-associated biomarkers, with the broader goal of improving prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. The research environment is highly interdisciplinary and uses data from large population-level studies and N-of-1 trials ,...

The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), part of the Georg-August University, is seeking a full-time Research Associate/Postdoc to join the Department of Medical Statistics. The department, led by Professor Tim Friede, is renowned for its research and teaching in biostatistics, bioinformatics, and the analysis of clinical and genomic data. The successful candidate will work within the CAIMed consortium, a leading research center for artificial intelligence (AI) and causal methods in medici...