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Machine Learning for Complex Networks

Open Positions

Below you can find information about open positions at our Chair. All open positions are in the Würzburg lab. We do not hire new personell in our Zurich lab.

Moreover, please note that - as a general rule - we do not offer internships (see exceptions below).

PhD Student Position

We currently have an open position for a PhD student working in the GenAIDE project. 

GenAIDE (Generative AI for Industrial Design Engineering) is a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Doctoral Network (DN) funded by the European Union with the objective to research and develop collaborative AI systems that partner with engineers for next generation industrial engineering design. In the network, 14 Doctoral Candidates will carry out research at 16 leading academic and industrial partners, including: 

  • Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH
  • University Leiden
  • Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
  • Altair Engineering GmbH
  • University Jyvaskyla
  • University of Manchester
  • Kone Oyi

The candidates will have the opportunity to visit various partners in the network, supported by a mobility allowance. At the Chair of Machine Learning for Complex Networks we are looking for one candidates as research scientists in the GenAIDE project, which will engage in a collaboration with our partners  DATEV eG and Honda Research GmbH. The specific focus of this position is the use of AI to support software development teams.

Successful applicants must hold an excellent MSc degree (or equivalent, e.g. Diploma) in an AI-related discipline, e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, or natural sciences. Applicants must also have proven software engineering skills as well as experience with web technologies and data visualization.

Excellent language skills in English are a precondition for this position.

We welcome applications from all qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, disability, marital or parental status, nationality or ethnicity. However, due to conditions set by the European Union, candidates must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Germany for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the recruitment date

Interested applicants shall send the usual documents (motivation letter, curriculum vitae, MSc thesis, grade transcript and certificates, name of possible references) to Prof. Dr. Ingo Scholtes, while citing the reference code GenAIDE_2026 in the subject of the E-Mail. All documents shall be submitted in PDF format.

Applications shall be submitted until December 15, 2025. We will continue to consider applications after this date until the position has been filled.

 

Internships and Research Visits

As a general rule, we do not host research internships!

Rare exceptions are made in special cases, e.g. based on an existing collaboration on a specific research topic that promises synergies between the visiting student and one or more members of our team.

If you fall in this exceptional category, you are welcome to contact us. Please send the usual documents (CV, grade transcript, name of a potential reference) as well as a motivation letter that clearly motivates why you want to specifically work with us, to Prof. Dr. Ingo Scholtes, while citing the reference code ML4Nets_Intern in the subject of your E-Mail. All documents must be submitted in PDF format.

We kindly ask you for your understanding that - due to the large volume of applications that we receive - we do not have the capacity to answer requests for internships or guest stays that do not fulfill the criteria stated above.