PhD Opportunities in Control Systems in Luxembourg

Research opportunity in quantum control and quantum algorithms at the Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. The project sits within the Learning and Decisions Lab and is led by Professor Rafal Wisniewski, in an international environment with weekly meetings, close day-to-day supervision, and collaboration with senior researchers, PhD students, postdoctoral fellows, and international partners. The PhD is part of the QUANTA project, which studies how to view quantum programs as ope...

This PhD project is based at the Electromechanics and Power Electronics (EPE) group at Eindhoven University of Technology and focuses on the next generation of power conversion for data centers. The research sits at the intersection of power electronics, control systems, and grid integration, with direct industrial collaboration with Delta Energy System GmbH , a company active in power conversion for data centers. The project centers on solid-state transformers (SSTs) for data-center application...

Sainan Zhang is recruiting a fully funded PhD student to join a research group at Kennesaw State University in Fall 2027. The opportunity centers on wearable and assistive robotics, with research connecting control, hardware, sensing, and human–robot interaction. The lab designs, builds, and tests real robotic systems, including wearable robots, actuators, and sensor-based platforms. Experimental development is supported by modeling and simulation, allowing researchers to investigate robotic sys...

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) is inviting applications for fully funded thesis-based Master’s and PhD research positions in the Control and Instrumentation Engineering Department in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The research focuses on advanced control technologies, including model predictive control , nonlinear control theory , multi-agent systems , reinforcement learning control , and advanced control and automation. Students will undertake thesis-based research addressing chal...

This PhD project at the Delft Center for Systems and Control addresses safe and computationally efficient learning for time-varying optimal control problems. The research is motivated by the energy inefficiency of industrial systems, electricity production, and building heating systems, and by the need to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions while maintaining operational safety. The project will investigate how learning-based control algorithms can simultaneously learn system models and guarantee saf...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) investigates efficient online optimization for time-varying systems, with a focus on safe and adaptive learning control. The research addresses a key challenge in learning-based control: how to learn a model while still guaranteeing safety, especially when the optimal decision changes over time. The project aims to develop computationally efficient methods for safe learning in time-varying optimal control problems. A central research ...

The DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory is recruiting a scientist/engineer for research in distributed systems state estimation within the Electronics for Sense and Control effort. The project sits at the intersection of navigation and localization , small-scale autonomous systems , and human physiological state monitoring , with the expectation that the researcher will contribute across this interconnected research space. The work emphasizes the development of novel methods for distributed state es...

The CREATE Lab at EPFL is hiring for multiple research positions in soft robotics, manipulation, and robot design, including PhD and postdoctoral opportunities. Applications are reviewed continuously, with a stated deadline of November 13, 2026. PhD projects include continuum body robots for modular, variable-stiffness robotic bodies; soft robotic simulation of human organs using soft lattice structures and integrated actuation; and morphing compliant and cellular-inspired robotic systems involv...

The University of Greenwich in London, United Kingdom, is inviting applications for two competitively funded PhD opportunities in Electrical Engineering. The first project focuses on AI-assisted wireless charging for electric mobility , developing next-generation wireless charging technologies for electric vehicles. The second explores AI-based digital twins for smart microgrids , with emphasis on renewable energy optimisation, resilience, and intelligent energy management. Home students are eli...