PhD Opportunities in Causal Inference

The University of Sussex is offering a funded full-time PhD in LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing inequalities , based in the School of Psychology within the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine at Falmer, UK. The project is supervised by Dr Ellen Thompson and sits within an interdisciplinary Wellcome Discovery Award focused on pathways to health equity for LGBTQ+ populations. The research will investigate the social, structural and individual determinants of health and health inequalities amon...

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 Professorship of Environmental Economics at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) , Campus Weihenstephan, is offering a doctoral research position in environmental and behavioral economics . The PhD researcher will join the WET-TER project —Water Efficiency through Technology, Targeting, and Experimental Research—which investigates how sustainable household behavior can be encouraged through technology, targeting, and experimental approaches. The project involves large-scale field experim...

This fully funded PhD will investigate precision medicine for low back pain , with the aim of improving how healthcare decisions are made and identifying which treatments work best for particular patients. The project will combine causal inference and machine learning across nationwide health databases and clinical trial data. The student will develop research expertise in data-driven treatment evaluation, health data analytics and methods for understanding variation in treatment outcomes. Resea...

At Delft University of Technology, this PhD project explores how nanoparticles move through human tissue and how their properties change along the way. The position sits in the SYNERGIE project, a Horizon Europe consortium focused on nanoparticle transport in human tissue and the safety and design of particles used in environmental and biomedical settings. You will work in the research group of Dr. Sepinoud Azimi and contribute to the in silico work package led by TU Delft. The project is built ...

Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Rotterdam School of Management (RSM) is seeking highly motivated PhD candidates in quantitative marketing. The fully funded and salaried position combines marketing science with machine learning, artificial intelligence, statistics, econometrics, economics, and consumer behavior. Research may address AI methods for adaptive decision-making, experimentation, personalization, multi-armed bandits, reinforcement learning, agentic AI, consumer or firm learning, privacy ...

German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB) in Hannover is offering a Research Associate / Doctoral Researcher position in Natural Language Processing and Causal AI for Scientific Reasoning within the Open Research Knowledge Graph (ORKG) and the Data Science and Digital Libraries Research Group led by Prof. Dr. Sören Auer . The project is part of the Leibniz Collaborative Excellence project EcoAIRE , which combines computational NLP expertise at TIB, ecology at the Leibniz Institute ...

Fully funded PhD in Formal Epistemology of Human–AI Interactions at IDSIA USI-SUPSI in Lugano, Switzerland. The four-year doctoral position is part of a Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)-funded project led by Andrea Ferrario and focuses on the foundations of human–AI interaction. The research brings together causal modelling, multi-agent systems, mathematical optimisation, and the philosophy of AI. Potential real-world applications include neuro-intensive care and cybersecurity. The docto...

[Funding of fees plus a stipend of £21,805 per annum for 2026/7.] PhD Studentship at the University of Exeter on Dissecting Metabolic Heterogeneity in Severe Mental Illness Through Genetic Clustering and Single-Cell Functional Genomics . This project aims to understand why genetic liability to severe mental illness, especially schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, is linked to different patterns of adiposity and metabolic health. While obesity and type 2 diabetes are more common in people with sev...