PhD Opportunities in Mathematics in Austria

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...

Johannes Kepler University Linz is recruiting two PhD students to join its brand-new Institute for Machine Intelligence in Linz, Austria. The institute is being established as a research environment for advancing robotics and shaping the development of more capable robots. One opening focuses on robot learning , including the invention of new learning methods that can bring advanced robotic systems to life. The second focuses on robot design for robot learning , connecting the design of robotic ...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is accepting applications to its 2027 interdisciplinary PhD program. The program welcomes highly qualified applicants interested in graduate-level scientific research across biology, chemistry, neuroscience, mathematics, computer science, physics, data science and scientific computing, astronomy, earth science, and related areas. Students join an international research environment built around ISTA’s research groups. During the first year of...

This PhD project focuses on patient-specific liver deformation modelling for radio-frequency liver tumour ablation , where accurate prediction of organ movement is essential for treatment planning and intraoperative guidance. The project develops an AI-driven framework that combines strong modelling approaches to capture liver deformation at the patient level. A major part of the research is tackling the interpretability problem of deep learning systems. The PhD candidate will investigate method...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) is offering fully funded PhD positions within a broad, interdisciplinary doctoral program spanning astronomy, biology, computer science, chemistry and materials, data science and scientific computing, earth science, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. The opportunity is based at ISTA, a world-class research environment on the outskirts of Vienna. The posting is aimed at highly qualified candidates interested in joining the institute’s Ph...

This PhD project, DC5, is based at the University of Innsbruck and sits at the intersection of mathematics and radiology. The project focuses on conditional diffusion models for image reconstruction, resolution enhancement, data completion, and segmentation in medical imaging. The central research challenge is to develop and mathematically analyse diffusion-based methods that can make use of conditional information such as clinical metadata, while remaining robust across different imaging protoc...

This doctoral project, Joint Denoising and Material Decomposition in Photon Counting Computed Tomography , sits at the interface of mathematics, image reconstruction, and clinical radiology. The PhD is part of the IGNIDTE programme and is hosted by the University of Innsbruck in collaboration with the Medical University of Innsbruck . The project focuses on spectrally resolved CT using photon-counting detectors, an imaging technology with wide clinical relevance. The research aims to combine mat...

The Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) invites applications to its interdisciplinary PhD program for students interested in advanced research across astronomy, biology, computer science, chemistry and materials, data science and scientific computing, earth science, mathematics, neuroscience, and physics. Based in a world-class research environment on the outskirts of Vienna, the program brings together an international scientific community representing more than 80 nationalities....