PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Data Science in Ireland

Postdoctoral Researcher in Biology at Maynooth University, Ireland The Biology Department at Maynooth University is recruiting a Post Doctoral Researcher for the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project. This is a full-time, fixed-term research post in Biology with strong links to Environmental Science , Geography , Earth Science , and Geology-related landscape change research through the use of GIS, remote sensing, paleoecology, and historical woodland analysis. The project aims to build an all-island...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in Dublin at University College Dublin (UCD) through the UCD China Scholarship Council (CSC) Scholarship Scheme. The Health Sensing and Microsystems group is seeking motivated PhD candidates to work on research in wearable and implantable bioelectronics , ultra-low-power analogue front-ends , neural data acquisition and signal processing , and low-cost printed sensors . This is a strong fit for students interested in electronic engineering, biomedical engineering, ma...

Maynooth University’s Department of Biology is advertising a Post-Doctoral Researcher position in the Forest Ecology and Global Change lab for the Ancient Woodlands Ireland project. This project aims to build an all-island Ancient Woodlands Inventory for Ireland by combining established methods with new approaches. The work brings together GIS , remote sensing , paleoecology , contemporary ecology , and history to examine changes in woodland cover over the last 400 years and support woodland pro...

Postdoctoral opportunity at Met Éireann in Ireland focused on regional ocean modelling, climate extremes, Earth System Models, and hybrid methods within the RazorEge consortium . The project aims to improve regional climate predictions for Ireland and Europe by addressing persistent biases in ocean currents, deep-water overflows, and atmospheric teleconnections. The successful candidate will work on innovative, computationally efficient modelling techniques within the EC-Earth system and help ev...

University College Dublin is recruiting two Post-doctoral Research Fellows (Level 1) for the SYN-Bridge US–Ireland Partnership project, in collaboration with Queen’s University Belfast and the University of Alabama at Birmingham . The project focuses on bridge structural health monitoring and combines drive-by measurements from instrumented vehicles with stationary bridge sensors to assess bridge condition in real time. Research at UCD will cover damage-detection algorithms , moving-force identi...

Postdoctoral Researcher (Level 1) in Composites Manufacturing at the University of Limerick , Ireland. This postdoctoral opening is in composites manufacturing and aerospace composites R&D , with work spanning advanced composite materials, lightweight structures, automated manufacturing, thermoplastic composites, process optimisation, sustainable materials, recycling technologies, prototype manufacturing, mechanical characterisation, and structural validation. The role sits in the Faculty of Sci...

Brian Sheil is recruiting a fully funded PhD researcher in Physical AI for the Built World , jointly supervised at the University of Galway and the University of Cambridge through CIRI – Ward & Burke Centre for Infrastructure Research & Innovation . The project sits at the intersection of civil engineering , computer science , physics , mathematics , robotics , and machine learning . Research directions include subsurface 3D reconstruction using physics-supervised learning and multimodal sensing...

Postdoc in bovine TB modelling at University College Dublin (BTB-MOSAIC) This postdoctoral opportunity is based at University College Dublin and sits within the BTB-MOSAIC project, a joint all-island initiative focused on bovine tuberculosis control in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The work combines infectious disease epidemiology , statistics , applied mathematics , quantitative ecology , and veterinary science , with a strong emphasis on transmission modelling and policy-relevant analysis. The...

University College Dublin is advertising a 1-year Post-doctoral Research Fellow Level 1 position in the School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering , working with the Neuromuscular Systems Research Lab as part of the Research Ireland RINN AI Centre . The project focuses on real-time decoding of motor unit activity for clinical applications , including work relevant to Parkinson’s disease . This is a multidisciplinary research opportunity at the intersection of electrical engineering , biomedic...