The Research Training Group CAUSE invites applications for doctoral researchers full time, fully funded until finalizing the PhD degree for 3 years plus a potential extension of a fourth year. The remuneration is in accordance with E13 TV-L. Positions start between September and November 2025.
Researchers from the three universities Hamburg University of Technology, University of Bremen, and Carl-von-Ossietzky University of Oldenburg jointly run CAUSE with funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG).
CAUSE investigates Concepts and Algorithms for – and Usage of – Self-Explaining Digitally Controlled Systems. Digitally controlled systems are pervasive in our everyday life from transport to health-care. CAUSE aims at making digitally controlled systems self-explaining to the benefit of developers, operators, interoperability, and other systems. CAUSE is a research, education, and networking hub for future researchers. Topic-wise CAUSE covers all layers from system-of-systems over software stacks to digital hardware. Doctoral researchers in CAUSE will tightly interact to study cross-level effects of self-explanation considering a virtual wind park as a demonstrator.
You have to have a Master of Science degree in Computer Science or a tightly related area (potentially ongoing, completed before September-November 2025).
The full job add and further details can be found here: https://rtg-cause.github.io/apply
Applications are due by May 1, 2025!
