PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Reinforcement Learning in Ireland

This postdoctoral position is part of the ANR BBSYTER project on formal verification of smart contracts at CNRS. The recruited researcher will work on methods that translate natural-language instructions and requirements into formal logical specifications, with a particular emphasis on linear temporal logic (LTL) and logically correct translations. The project combines several research directions: semantic translation from natural language to formal formulas, the design of a controlled natural l...

The Faculty of Engineering at the University of Mons is offering a three-year PhD fellowship within the Horizon Europe project AISCEND on AI-driven, socially embedded forecasting and energy sharing for community-centered grids. The doctoral project sits in the Electrical Power Engineering Unit and the Power Systems and Markets Research Group , bringing together power systems, optimisation, artificial intelligence, and energy market thinking. The successful candidate will work on methods for day-...

The Aerospace Engineering PhD Programme at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is collecting expressions of interest for two doctoral research topics in its Aerospace Engineering Department, a designated “María de Maeztu” Unit of Excellence for 2026–2031. PhD 1: Flying Anemometers—From Drone Dynamics to Urban Wind Forecasts. This project investigates cooperative drone swarms used as mobile wind sensors. Local wind conditions will be estimated from the drones’ own flight dynamics and used to train a...

Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria is offering a PhD opportunity in robot learning within the Institute for Machine Intelligence. The thesis investigates continual learning, sim-to-real transfer, embodied artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, tactile sensing and robot control. The project sits at the intersection of machine learning and robotics, with a focus on enabling robots to learn continuously and operate effectively in embodied, real-world environments. Research activit...

Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria is offering a PhD position in the Institute for Machine Intelligence focused on robot design and robot learning . The doctoral thesis will investigate the design of robotic hardware and the integration of reinforcement learning for embodied intelligence. The project combines physical robot development with machine learning approaches, creating opportunities to work across robotics, artificial intelligence, computer science, mechatronics, simulation, and...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Zurich invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in computational modelling of agency and resilience. The role is part of the SNSF-funded project “Building Resilience: A Lab-to-Life Investigation of How Control Beliefs and Active Coping Develop in Stressful Transitions” , led by Dr. Laura Meine. The project investigates how psychological resilience is actively built and sustained during stressful life transitions. It focuses on ho...

Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS is seeking a motivated PhD candidate to join a research team working on Trustworthy and Safety-Constrained AI for Geological Carbon Storage . The project brings together artificial intelligence, reinforcement learning, uncertainty, and sustainability to address research challenges in geological carbon storage and carbon capture, utilization and storage (CCUS). The candidate will contribute to developing AI approaches that are trustworthy, safety-aware, and suitable ...

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...

DTU Compute is offering PhD scholarships in machine learning for the optimization of cyber-physical systems . The project focuses on developing learning-based methods that can speed up analysis and improve the optimization of systems where exact solutions are too costly to compute in practice. The selected PhD student will work in the Embedded Systems Engineering section at the Technical University of Denmark and join a research environment centered on embedded, distributed, and cyber-physical s...