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PhD positions are available for the DIW Graduate Center PhD Program in Economics at DIW Berlin - Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. This opportunity is aimed at doctoral students interested in Economics and related quantitative fields such as Econometrics , Statistics , Mathematics , quantitative social sciences, and engineering backgrounds with sufficient economics preparation. Eligibility highlights: Applicants should hold a master’s degree or diploma in Economics. Applications c...

The University of Oldenburg is advertising a fully funded PhD position in the Safety-Security-Interaction group within the Department of Computer Science. The project sits at the intersection of applied cryptography, privacy-enhancing technologies, and trustworthy AI, with an explicit application focus on healthcare systems. Research topics may include homomorphic encryption, secure multi-party computation, differential privacy, secure collaborative machine learning, robustness, explainability, ...

Technische Universität Dresden (TU Dresden) is advertising a Research Associate / PhD Student / PostDoc position at the Faculty of Computer Science, Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Chair of Computational Logic . The role is part of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB)/Transregio 248 “Foundations of Perspicuous Software Systems” and focuses on computer science , theoretical computer science , knowledge representation , logic , description logic , ontology languages , and standpoint logic...

Andrew Lowy, Tenure-Track Faculty at CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, is recruiting a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher to join his group in Saarbrücken, Germany . The position is centered on the mathematical foundations of machine learning , with interests in differential privacy , optimization , and machine unlearning . The post also highlights broader directions in AI safety and alignment , especially for candidates interested in rigorous theoretical work, proving fundame...

Two full-time PhD positions are available in Structure-Aware Machine Learning at Leipzig University in Leipzig, Germany , within the newly established research group at ScaDS.AI . The group focuses on machine learning methods that exploit spatial, temporal, and distributional structures to improve generalization, robustness, interpretability, and efficiency. Research directions include structure-aware representation learning , computer vision , spatiotemporal modeling , video understanding , dom...

Technical University of Munich is advertising a 100% PhD position in the Autonomous Vehicle Lab / Chair of Automotive Engineering on Runtime Risk Assessment for Autonomous Driving . The project focuses on developing a real-time risk assessment system for autonomous vehicles that combines uncertainty from perception, prediction, and planning into an aggregated risk measure. The doctoral research will also cover threshold logic, escalation mechanisms, simulation-based validation, and real-world te...

Fully funded PhD position in Medical Image Analysis and Healthcare AI at Leipzig University , within the Structure-Aware Machine Learning Research Group at ScaDS.AI Dresden/Leipzig . The project sits at the intersection of computer science , machine learning , and biomedical engineering , with a focus on AI methods for medical imaging and healthcare applications. The post highlights strong ML fundamentals, Python/PyTorch experience, and prior research experience as desirable. This is a fully fun...

GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences is advertising a Research Associate (PhD Student) position in the field of survey research within the Survey Design and Methodology (SDM) department and the GESIS Panel.dbd Digital Behavioral Data Sample in Mannheim, Germany . The role is part-time (75%), paid at pay grade 13 TV-L , and limited to 4 years , with a planned start date of 2027-01-15 . The successful candidate will support and implement survey projects, coordinate study submissions w...

Technical University of Munich (TUM), Chair of Automotive Engineering, is advertising a PhD position (100%) in multi-stack handling and hybrid safety architecture for autonomous vehicles . The project focuses on how a modular autonomous vehicle stack and an end-to-end (E2E) stack can run redundantly and in parallel within one vehicle architecture. Research topics include arbitration logic for handoffs between stacks, blending strategies for smooth transitions, and functional safety concepts base...