PhD Opportunities in Natural Language Processing in Italy

PhD Candidate in Biological-inspired AI-approaches for mitigating the spread of misinformation at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. This PhD project focuses on developing biological-inspired artificial intelligence approaches to help mitigate the spread of misinformation. The topic sits at the intersection of AI, machine learning, information diffusion, and the analysis of online/social systems, with strong relevance to computational social science and communicatio...

PhD Research Fellow position in Structured Vision-Language Models at Integreat – Norwegian Centre for Knowledge-driven Machine Learning in Norway. This opening is focused on research at the intersection of computer vision, language understanding, and machine learning, with an emphasis on structured vision-language modeling. The role is suited to a doctoral candidate interested in multimodal AI, representation learning, and model architectures that combine visual and textual information in a prin...

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 ...

Two PhD positions are available at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in AI for Science , with a strong focus on using modern machine learning to support scientific discovery and improve the interpretability of AI systems. Position 1 is centered on fine-tuning and retrieval for multimodal foundation models in science . The research will develop methods that adapt foundation models to scientific tasks such as segmentation maps, simulation fields, time-series prediction, and retrieval-augmented exp...

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH is offering a three-year PhD position in economics at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Jülich Systems Analysis (ICE-2), based in Jülich, Germany. The doctoral project investigates public opinion and sentiment on energy policy through systematic data collection and natural language processing (NLP). The research will identify and characterize stakeholder groups relevant to energy policy, draw on economic theory, and translate findings into specifications...

PhD opportunity in psychology, education and gender research at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland. Pascal Gygax is recruiting a doctoral student for a four-year project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The project, Breaking Barriers: How Gender Stereotypes in French and Swiss Schoolbooks Affect Young Learners’ Processing Difficulties, Motivation and Interest , investigates how representations of girls, boys, women and men in primary school textbooks in Switzerland an...

Waseda University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher / Associate Research Fellow for research in development economics , environmental economics , and related data-driven fields. The position is based at the Waseda University Institute for Contemporary Politics and Economics in Tokyo, Japan , within the Takahashi Sustainable Society Design Project , a project selected under Waseda University’s program for nurturing core next-generation researchers. The project focuses on empirical research ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at Ulster University in Secure & Trustworthy AI-Generated Software (SAFE-GEN). This project sits at the intersection of Computer Science , Software Engineering , Cybersecurity , Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning , and Explainable AI (XAI) . The research investigates vulnerabilities introduced by LLM coding assistants and aims to develop intelligent, language-agnostic methods to detect, localise, and explain security weaknesses in both human-written and AI-ge...

Zhijing Jin at the University of Toronto says that Jinesis Lab is always hiring and is looking for strong PhD and pre-doctoral students. The lab focuses on Responsible AI , Large Language Models , and Causality , with openness to research collaboration in both remote and in-person formats. The post also notes that UofT CS hires all ranks of professors across all computer science areas, especially AI, and that the formal call will be released soon. For PhD applicants, the post highlights that Uof...