PhD Opportunities in Artificial Intelligence

Politecnico di Torino is seeking a PhD candidate to join its Multi-Scale Modeling Laboratory (SMaLL) through the newly funded EIC Pathfinder Open project IONFLUX. The project explores whether artificial intelligence and molecular-level understanding can be combined to discover entirely new energy-storage materials. The doctoral researcher will focus on adaptive materials for next-generation sodium batteries, working at the intersection of molecular simulations, machine learning, and materials sc...

The University of Granada is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to join IMIS-Lab in Spain. The project focuses on intelligent structural health monitoring and the assessment of infrastructure through advanced digital technologies. The research combines artificial intelligence , digital twins , and structural monitoring to support improved understanding and evaluation of infrastructure. The work is suited to candidates interested in applying computational and data-driven approaches to struc...

This UNSW Scientia PhD project investigates federated artificial intelligence for standardising head and neck radiotherapy data and modelling contour variation across hospitals. The research will use large, diverse and international radiotherapy imaging, anatomical structure and radiation-dose datasets to examine differences in clinical practice and develop AI models for more personalised cancer treatment. The project focuses on federated learning, allowing raw data to remain at local institutio...

Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health is inviting applications for a Fall 2027 PhD in Biostatistics. The program offers advanced training in biostatistics and statistical methodology within a public-health research environment. Students can pursue research across artificial intelligence and machine learning, epidemiology and infectious disease modelling, Bayesian statistics, causal inference, spatial statistics, longitudinal data analysis, statistical genetics and genomics, clinical...

The BRAIN Unit Lab at the University of Padua is seeking a doctoral researcher through the China Scholarship Council pathway for the 2027/2028 academic year. The PhD project sits at the intersection of neuroscience, neuroengineering, artificial intelligence and non-linear signal processing . The research environment focuses on advanced analysis of brain activity for clinical and technological applications. One major direction is brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) and neural signal decoding, includ...

Niloufar Alipour Talemi is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join the AIM Lab in the School of Computing at Utah State University , a Carnegie-designated R1 university in the United States. The opening is designed for a highly motivated researcher with a strong background in Computer Vision and Multimodal Foundation Models . The student will join a research environment focused on multimodal artificial intelligence and the development or application of foundation-model approaches that comb...

PhD project in AI for ship design and marine engineering The Department of Ocean Operations and Civil Engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) is offering a PhD position focused on artificial intelligence for accelerated concept evaluation and tender-phase ship design. The research will develop methods that make early-stage marine design faster, more efficient and better informed. The project will investigate AI-based generation and exploration of marine design co...

The Bio-Digital Mechanics (Bio-DMX) Lab in the College of Engineering at the University of Georgia is offering a fully funded PhD position in computational brain mechanics under Professor Xianqiao Wang. The thesis focuses on AI- and data-driven computational brain mechanics , with applications to brain development and disorders. The project is suited to researchers interested in combining computational mechanics, artificial intelligence, scientific programming, and biomedical engineering to inve...

The University of Eastern Finland is recruiting three doctoral researchers for the School of Computing on the Kuopio campus to join the ERC-funded MINE-THE-GAP project. The project combines satellite imagery, mining data reports, and AI to study mining activities and their impacts worldwide, with a focus on improving transparency and sustainability in mining. Each doctoral researcher will lead an individual thesis within one of three research themes: mapping mining land use through semantic segm...