Recruitment

We’ll be recruiting for 20+ new PhD and postdoc positions in the spring of 2025.

The administrative processes for these new positions are currently ongoing, and links to the job adverts will appear here as soon as they become available – look out for the label * NOW OPEN * before the title.

In the meantime, please see this slidedeck for an overview of all the positions that we will be opening.

Supervisor: Bart Verheij (RUG)
Co-supervisor: Silja Renooij (UU)

Challenge(s): Trust and Trustworthiness
Case study: Hybrid Law
SIG(s): NLP4HI

 

Supervisor: Charlotte Gerritsen & Lize Alberts (VU)
Co-supervisor: Birna van Riemsdijk (UT)

Challenge(s): Dialogue
Case Study: Health – Diabetes
SIG(s): Theory of Mind

Supervisor: Patrick Koopmann (VU)
Co-supervisor: Myrthe Tielman (TUD)

Challenge(s): Different users and situations require different interactions!

Supervisor: Annette ten Tije (VU)
Co-supervisor:
Erman Acar (UvA)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): metrics & methodology
Case studies: Robotic Surgery and Scientific Assistant

* Expected: end of the year / early 2026

Supervisor: Victor de Boer & Ilaria Tiddi (VU)
Co-supervisor: 

Challenge(s): metrics & methodology
Case study: Scientific Assistant, Museum (but it’s actually super partes)
SIG(s): System Design in Context

Supervisor: Kim Baraka (VU)
Co-supervisor: Herke van Hoof (UvA)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): Collaboration and Synergy
Case study: Robosurgery
SIG(s): RL

Supervisor: Maryam Alimardani (VU)
Co-supervisor: Herke van Hoof (UvA)

Link to vacancy 

Supervisor: Sara Magliacane (UvA)
Co-supervisor: Frans Oliehoek (TUD)

Challenge: Trust & Trustworthiness
SIG(s): RL
Case Study: Robotic surgery Assistant

Supervisor: Lise Stork (UvA)
CO-supervisor: Davide Dell’Anna (UU)

Challenge(s): Metrics and Methodologies
Case study/studies: Scientific Assistant.

Supervisor: Erman Acar (UvA)
Co-supervisor: Shihan Wang (UU)

Challenge(s): trust & trustworthiness
SIG(s): RL
Use Case: Law

Supervisor: Nanne van Noord (UvA)
Co-supervisor: Shenghui Wang (UT)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): CoSy
Case study: Museum
SIG(s): Ethics and System Design

Supervisor: Pradeep Murakannaiah (TUD)
Co-supervisor: Antske Fokkens (VU)

Challenge(s): methods & metrics
SIG(s): NLP4HI

Supervisor: Myrthe Tielman &
Bernd Dudzik (TUD)
Co-supervisor:

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): Trust & Trustworthiness
Case study: Diabetes Lifestyle
Intervention SIG(s): Theory of Mind

* Expected: end of the year / early 2026

Supervisor: Stephanie Tan & Catha Oertel (TUD)
Co-supervisor: Shenghui Wang (UT)

Challenge(s): Trust & Trustworthiness
Case study: Museum

* Expected: end of the year / early 2026

Supervisor: Catholijn Jonker (TUD)
CO-supervisor: – 

Challenge(s): Dialogue; Case study: Scientific Assistant, or Law; SIG(s): DeAR

Supervisor: Catha Oertel (TUD)
CO-supervisor: Mike Ligthart, Shihan Wang (VU)

Supervisor: Chirag Raman (TUD)
Co-supervisor: Jan-Willem van de Meent (UvA)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): CoSy
Case study: Museum
SIG(s): Ethics and System Design

* Expected: end of the year / early 2026

Supervisor:
Roel Dobbe (TUD)
Co-supervisor: Ibo van de Poel (TUD)

Challenge(s): across Trust & Trustworthiness and Methodologies & Metrics
Case study/studies: Law / Museum
SIG(s): ethics & system design

* Expected: end of the year / early 2026

Supervisor:
Harmen de Weerd (RUG)
Co-supervisor: Max van Duijn, Mike Ligthart (ULEI, VU)

Challenge(s): Collaboration and synergy, dialogue
Case studies: Museum (child education)
SIG(s): ToM

Supervisor: Shihan Wang (UU)
Co-supervisor: Sara Magliacane (UvA)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): Dialogue
Case study: Diabetes
SIG(s): RL

Supervisor: Davide Dell’Anna (UU)
Co-supervisor: Myrthe Tielman (TUD)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): Methodologies & Metrics
Case study: Diabetes
SIG(s): Ethics and syst. design

Supervisor: Silja Renooij (UU)
Co-supervisor: Anna Kononova (ULEI)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): Trust & Trustworthiness
Case study: Diabetes

Supervisor: Max van Duijn (ULEI)
Co-supervisor: Rineke Verbrugge, Dan Balliet (RUG, VU)

Challenge(s): Collaboration & Synergy (Measures & Metrics)
Case study: Scientific Assistant
SIG(s): ToM (NLP4HI)

 

Supervisor: Davide Dell’Anna (shared HI)
Co-supervisor: Catholijn Jonker (TUD)

Supervisor: Piek Vossen (VU)
Co-supervisor: Catharine Oertel (TUD)

Link to vacancy

Challenge(s): Dialogue
Case study: Diabetes
SIG(s): Reinforcement, ToM, NLP4HI

Supervisor: Roxana Radulescu (UU)
Co-supervisor: Davide Grossi (RUG)

Challenge(s): Collaboration and Synergy
Case study: Museum
SIG(s): RL