PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in cognitive science in new zealand

Augment, an imec research group at KU Leuven, is recruiting for PhD and postdoctoral positions in human-AI collaboration , shared decision-making , and the design of AI systems that help people understand, question, and steer AI. One highlighted opening is a PhD position in Human-Centred Explainable Constraint Solving . The broader call also mentions open PhD and postdoctoral positions in human–AI collaboration. This is a strong fit for candidates interested in computer science , information tec...

University of Basel is advertising a PhD position in Developmental Psychology focused on the development of metacognitive skills during childhood and adolescence. The project examines how children and adolescents monitor uncertainty , evaluate what they know and do not know , and take effective control of their learning . A particular emphasis is placed on these processes in the context of contemporary learning environments . The opening is in the Department of Human Development at the Universit...

PhD opportunity at Columbia University in interactive AI and multimodal interaction models . The group is looking for a motivated PhD student to work on AI systems that can perceive, reason, and respond in real time across speech , text , and multimodal signals . Research directions include real-time full-duplex voice agents , multimodal interaction models spanning speech/vision/text, and systems that adapt and learn from interaction rather than relying only on static training. Ideal preparation...

PhD position at Leiden University: The effect of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on cognitive functions This 4-year PhD project at the Institute of Psychology, Leiden University, investigates whether transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation (tVNS) can improve cognitive functions such as memory, attention, perception, and cognitive control. tVNS is a non-invasive electrical stimulation technique applied through the skin at the ear or neck. The project addresses an important scientific questi...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Incidental Language Learning at Ghent University , Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Department of Experimental Psychology. This position is part of the FWO-funded STATMIND project, Growing a Statistical Mind: The Interplay Between Emerging and Existing Linguistic Knowledge . The project investigates how previously acquired linguistic knowledge interacts with the incidental learning of new patterns, with a strong focus on psycholinguistics , cognitive sci...

Ghent University is offering a full-time doctoral fellowship within the Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology for a PhD project titled Mind the Mind: Testing the Mind-Space Theory in Autism . The position is embedded in the EXPLORA research group and led by Prof. Dr. Roeljan Wiersema and Dr. Annabel Nijhof, with collaboration from Prof. Dr. Geoff Bird (University College London). The project addresses an important question in autism research: why do many autistic individuals ...

ETH Zürich’s KOF Swiss Economic Institute is offering a PhD Researcher position in Trustworthy and Human-Centred AI Development . The project sits at the intersection of applied economics, responsible AI, and human-computer interaction, with a particular focus on how AI systems behave in the world and how they affect the people and institutions that use them. The successful candidate will join an international research team working on methodological research and concrete implementation. The role...

Doctoral Researcher in Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Luxembourg, within the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) and the TruX Research Group. This is a fully funded PhD position focused on developing tools that improve end-user education and detection of AI-generated social engineering attempts, including emails, voice messages, websites, and images. The project also explores how AI can be used to create social engineering attempts, bringing togeth...

The Faculty of Psychology at the University of Basel is advertising a PhD position in Developmental Psychology focused on the development of metacognitive skills across childhood and adolescence. The successful candidate will join the Human Development group and contribute to a research program examining how metacognitive monitoring and regulation develop over time, including children’s and adolescents’ ability to judge their own understanding, detect uncertainty and errors, and adapt learning s...