PhD position on Explainable NLU at the University of Copenhagen
Isabelle Augenstein
A fully funded 3-year PhD fellowship on explainable natural language understanding for a start in Spring 2026 is available in the Natural Language Understanding group at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen as part of the ExplainYourself project on Explainable and Robust Automatic Fact Checking. The position requires a Master’s degree. The successful candidate will be supervised by Isabelle Augenstein and co-supervised by Pepa Atanasova. Read more about the position and apply here by 31 October 2025.
The project is funded by an ERC Starting Grant, a highly competitive funding program by the European Research Council, which supports the most talented early-career scientists in Europe with funding for a period of 5 years for blue-skies research to build up or expand their research groups.
In addition to the principal investigator, PhD students and postdocs, the project team includes collaborators from CopeNLU as well as external collaborators. Three PhD students as well as two postdocs have already been recruited as a result of earlier calls, and the project officially kicked off in September 2023.
Candidates interested in a start in Autumn 2026 instead can express their interest by applying to the ELLIS PhD programme by 31 October 2025, naming Isabelle Augenstein as a supervisor.
More information about PhD opportunities in the CopeNLU research group can be found here. Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Isabelle Augenstein, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: augen...@di.ku.dk.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D.