PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Control Systems in Ireland

The University of Oxford’s Department of Engineering Science is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for an externally funded project on modelling quantum computing control systems within Professor Natalia Ares’ research group in central Oxford. The project addresses a major challenge in scalable quantum computing: understanding the classical infrastructure required to support large-scale quantum devices, including analog control systems. As quantum computers move toward the million-qubit regime, t...

This postdoctoral position is based at CNRS within the GANIL environment and contributes to the European iRIS project, coordinated by CERN, which aims to reduce the environmental footprint of large research infrastructures using artificial intelligence methods. The successful candidate will work on the WP2 GreenBeam work package focused on AI-based sustainability optimisation for particle accelerators. The project combines accelerator physics, machine learning, beam-dynamics modelling, and contr...

Nanyang Technological University’s School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering is seeking a Research Associate in safe control and robotics . The research focuses on safety-critical control theory and machine learning, combining new theory or methods for nonlinear system control with state-of-the-art machine-learning systems. The successful researcher will investigate how approaches such as diffusion models and transformers can be integrated with control methods for applications involving ro...

Research opportunity in quantum control and quantum algorithms at the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. The project sits within the Learning and Decisions Lab and is led by Professor Rafal Wisniewski, in an international environment with weekly meetings, close day-to-day supervision, and collaboration with senior researchers, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and international partners. The PhD is part of the QUANTA project, which studies how to view quantum programs as ope...

This postdoctoral project at the University of Twente focuses on robotic instruments for minimally invasive surgery within the FlexSMART project. The research aims to integrate sensing and control into soft and flexible surgical devices , supporting new capabilities for surgical robotics and medical device innovation. The work will be carried out in the research facilities of the Department of Biomechanical Engineering . The project sits at the intersection of robotics, mechatronics, mechanical ...

This PhD project is based at the Electromechanics and Power Electronics (EPE) group at Eindhoven University of Technology and focuses on the next generation of power conversion for data centers. The research sits at the intersection of power electronics, control systems, and grid integration, with direct industrial collaboration with Delta Energy System GmbH , a company active in power conversion for data centers. The project centers on solid-state transformers (SSTs) for data-center application...

The National Laboratory of the Rockies is seeking a full-time Postdoctoral Researcher in Mathematical Optimization for Energy Systems to join the Advanced Computing Solutions Group within the Computational Science Center in Golden, Colorado. The research focuses on mathematical optimization and its application to the design and control of energy systems. The postdoctoral researcher will help advance automation, control, and decision-making methods for energy applications, working at the intersec...

Sainan Zhang is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join a research group at Kennesaw State University in Fall 2027. The opportunity centers on wearable and assistive robotics, with research connecting control, hardware, sensing, and human–robot interaction. The lab designs, builds, and tests real robotic systems, including wearable robots, actuators, and sensor-based platforms. Experimental development is supported by modeling and simulation, allowing researchers to investigate robotic sys...

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) is inviting applications for fully funded thesis-based Master’s and PhD research positions in the Control and Instrumentation Engineering Department in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The research focuses on advanced control technologies, including model predictive control , nonlinear control theory , multi-agent systems , reinforcement learning control , and advanced control and automation. Students will undertake thesis-based research addressing chal...