PhD positions

What we offer

  • Full-time position according to TV-L E13

  • Young and ambitious research group with a very collaborative and international team of PhD students and Postdocs

  • Exciting research topics, state-of-the-art machine learning methods, applied to highly relevant challenges in chemistry and materials science

  • National and international collaborations in machine learning, materials science and chemistry

  • Support through the Karlsruhe House of Young Scientists (KHYS), including workshops and financial support for stays abroad

Your tasks

  • You will be able to work on the development of machine learning models, in particular
    • Graph neural networks for property prediction of materials and molecules (deep graph representation learning models on very large datasets)
    • Generative models for inverse design (graph generation, e.g. based on diffusion)
    • Explainable methods for extraction of scientific knowledge from data, specifically graph datasets
  • You will have the chance to participate in teaching activities on the Bachelor's and Master's level in computer science (German or English)

  • You will have the opportunity to present your research on international conferences, project meetings and workshops

What we are looking for

  • Highly motivated young researchers (female/male/diverse)

  • Background and practical experience in computer science and machine learning, interest in graph neural networks and generative models

  • Interest to learn more about exciting application areas of machine learning in materials science and chemistry

  • Creativity, independence, good teamwork and communication skills, motivation to make a change and have an impact in research

Are you interested?

Please use the following form to submit your application for PhD positions. Due to the high volume of applications, this helps us keep an overview. We will get back to you by email to schedule an interview once we have a suitable position. We unfortunately do not have the capacity to reply to applications sent by email.

Application form