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

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...

Stanford AeroAstro’s Safe and Intelligent Autonomy Lab (SIA Lab) is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers for projects at the intersection of robotics, machine learning, control, and safety. The first position focuses on the safety of learning-enabled autonomous systems through a NASA University Leadership Initiative project involving academic, industry, and government collaborators. The research addresses design-time safety assurances and safety-aware learning, runtime safety monitoring and c...

This PhD project at the Delft Center for Systems and Control addresses safe and computationally efficient learning for time-varying optimal control problems. The research is motivated by the energy inefficiency of industrial systems, electricity production, and building heating systems, and by the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while maintaining operational safety. The project will investigate how learning-based control algorithms can simultaneously learn system models and guarantee saf...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) investigates efficient online optimization for time-varying systems, with a focus on safe and adaptive learning control. The research addresses a key challenge in learning-based control: how to learn a model while still guaranteeing safety, especially when the optimal decision changes over time. The project aims to develop computationally efficient methods for safe learning in time-varying optimal control problems. A central research ...