PhD and postdoc positions in Human-Centric Explainable NLU
Isabelle Augenstein
The Natural Language Understanding Research group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen is offering a PhD and postdoc position each on a new interdisciplinary project on “Human-Centered Explainable Retrieval-Augmented LLMs” funded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmark, led by Isabelle Augenstein and Irina Shklovski. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU here.
PhD positionThe PhD position is fully funded for three years and open to candidates with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. The PhD student’s research is expected to focus on explanation steering for human-centric RAG. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience in ML or NLP.
The PhD student will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein and co-supervised by Irina Shklovski, and also collaborate with the larger project team. In addition to a postdoc to be recruited, this includes external collaborators, including in information retrieval.
Read more about the position and apply here by 1 February 2026 to be considered. The expected start date is 1 September 2026.
Postdoc positionThe postdoc position is also offered for three years and open to candidates with a PhD degree in Computer Science or another relevant field. The postdoc’s duties will be to conduct research on user-centric RAG and information needs of people interacting with AI. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing.
The postdoc will work with Irina Shklovski and Isabelle Augenstein, and also collaborate with the larger project team.
Read more about the position and apply here by 1 February 2026 to be considered. The expected start date is 1 September 2026.