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)
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)
Challenge(s): Collaboration and Synergy
Case study: Robosurgery
SIG(s): RL
Supervisor: Maryam Alimardani (VU)
Co-supervisor: Herke van Hoof (UvA)
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)
Challenge(s): CoSy
Case study: Museum
SIG(s): Ethics and System Design
Supervisor: Vlad Niculae (UvA)
Co-supervisor: Antske Fokkens (VU)
Supervisor: Pradeep Murakannaiah (TUD)
Co-supervisor: Antske Fokkens (VU)
Challenge(s): methods & metrics
SIG(s): NLP4HI
Supervisor: Myrthe Tielman &
Bernd Dudzik (TUD)
Co-supervisor: –
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)
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)
Challenge(s): Dialogue
Case study: Diabetes
SIG(s): RL
Supervisor: Davide Dell’Anna (UU)
Co-supervisor: Myrthe Tielman (TUD)
Challenge(s): Methodologies & Metrics
Case study: Diabetes
SIG(s): Ethics and syst. design
Supervisor: Silja Renooij (UU)
Co-supervisor: Anna Kononova (ULEI)
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)
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