Postdoc Opportunities in Machine Learning in Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at TU Darmstadt, Germany in NLP , Large Language Models (LLMs) , and AI for Cybersecurity . The position is titled “Postdoctoral Researcher – Expert Judgment in LLMs, with a Focus on Cybersecurity” and runs for 12 months from January to December 2027 . The research themes highlighted in the post include natural language processing, large language models, learning from limited expert input, and developing AI systems that produce useful outputs for domain expert...

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg is advertising a Post-Doc / wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in or Akademische*r Rat/Rätin auf Zeit (m/w/d) at the Chair of Computational Social Science and Artificial Intelligence (CoSSI) . This is a full-time (100%) academic position, initially limited to three years with the option of extension . The post is aimed at candidates with interests in Computational Social Science , Artificial Intelligence , and related Computer Science / social science methods. The...

Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg is inviting applications for a Senior Research Fellow (Postdoc) in the newly established Max Planck Research Group Constellations of Global (Dis)Ordering (DISORDER) , headed by Dr. Gordon Friedrichs . The project examines how global order is transformed as states, especially great and middle powers, pursue competing visions of international order through institutions, economic and technological interdependence, a...

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d): Usable Extreme Weather Projections at Impact-Relevant Scales at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany. This postdoctoral opening sits in the Carl Zeiss Stiftung Independent Research Group on High-End Climate Risks (CZS-HECR), which studies worst-case climate outcomes, unprecedented and compound extremes, and their societal impacts. The project combines climate physics, Earth system analysis, targeted climate model experiments, advan...

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...

Postdoc opening in Climate Adaptation using Computational Social Science methods at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany . The project asks a timely question: how can we tell whether cities are actually implementing the climate adaptation measures they promise? The research will combine NLP , machine learning , and data mining to analyse urban climate adaptation plans, monitoring reports, and public procurement records, with the aim of tracking adaptation pro...

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...

📢 Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at TU Darmstadt in the NLP for Expert Domains (ExpNLP) group. The position focuses on Natural Language Processing , Large Language Models , and Cybersecurity , with a research theme centered on expert judgment in LLMs : how LLM-based systems can produce outputs that domain experts actually find valuable, even when experts disagree on what “valuable” means. Core application areas include vulnerability severity , AI agents in security investigations , and huma...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Drivers and Statistics of Accelerating Extreme Weather Trends at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology (MPI-GEA), Jena, Germany. This postdoctoral opening sits in the Carl Zeiss Stiftung Independent Research Group on High-End Climate Risks (CZS-HECR) , which studies worst-case climate outcomes, unprecedented and compounding extremes, and their societal impacts. The project combines climate science , atmospheric science , Earth science , physics , statistics , and...