15 Doctoral Candidate Positions in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network CAVECORE
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Gerald Steinbauer-Wagner
Oct 10, 2025, 11:08:21 AM (8 days ago) Oct 10
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15 Funded PhD Positions in Cognitive Robotics (MSCA Doctoral Network
CAVECORE)
We are seeking highly motivated doctoral candidates for 15 fully funded
PhD positions in the new Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network
CAVECORE (Continuous, Automated Validation, and Evaluation of Cognitive
Robots in Open-Ended Environments).
Doctoral Candidates will develop novel methods for evaluating and
validating safety, reliability, and performance of AI-enabled robots,
combining robotics & AI (manipulation, control, HRI) with cutting-edge
validation techniques (automated testing, diagnosis, AI metrology).
Through secondments across academia and industry, they will gain
hands-on experience and international perspectives.
Doctoral topics include the following:
- Shared models for reliable and safe human-robot collaboration, and
efficient decision-making under uncertainty and partial observability
(Positions #1 and #3)
- Learning-enabled safe and reliable hybrid controllers, and pro-active
behavioural adjustment of RL-based manipulation skills (Positions #4 and #5)
- Digital twin-based behavioural specification, adaptive safety
monitoring, and uncertainty quantification for risk-informed
decision-making (Positions #2, #10, #13)
- Measures of human preferences for responsible robot behaviour in
prosocial dilemmas and psychometric evaluation of cognitive robots
(Positions #8 and #9)
- Automated robotic mission assessment with digital twins and
scenario-based testing in virtual worlds (Positions #6 and #7)
- LLM-assisted scenario generation for safety validation, data-driven
test scenario selection using measured sim2real gap, and replicable
evaluation based on provenance models (Positions #11, #12, #14, #15)
Partners include: University of Bremen, Bielefeld University, IT
University of Copenhagen, University of York, TU Graz, Cyprus University
of Technology, Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE), PAL
Robotics, EIVA A/S, and Cellumation GmbH.
Start date: February 2026 | Duration: 36 months | Deadline: October 20, 2025
Application procedure, requirements, and official announcement:
https://cavecore.eu/how-to-apply/
CAVECORE)
We are seeking highly motivated doctoral candidates for 15 fully funded
PhD positions in the new Marie-Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network
CAVECORE (Continuous, Automated Validation, and Evaluation of Cognitive
Robots in Open-Ended Environments).
Doctoral Candidates will develop novel methods for evaluating and
validating safety, reliability, and performance of AI-enabled robots,
combining robotics & AI (manipulation, control, HRI) with cutting-edge
validation techniques (automated testing, diagnosis, AI metrology).
Through secondments across academia and industry, they will gain
hands-on experience and international perspectives.
Doctoral topics include the following:
- Shared models for reliable and safe human-robot collaboration, and
efficient decision-making under uncertainty and partial observability
(Positions #1 and #3)
- Learning-enabled safe and reliable hybrid controllers, and pro-active
behavioural adjustment of RL-based manipulation skills (Positions #4 and #5)
- Digital twin-based behavioural specification, adaptive safety
monitoring, and uncertainty quantification for risk-informed
decision-making (Positions #2, #10, #13)
- Measures of human preferences for responsible robot behaviour in
prosocial dilemmas and psychometric evaluation of cognitive robots
(Positions #8 and #9)
- Automated robotic mission assessment with digital twins and
scenario-based testing in virtual worlds (Positions #6 and #7)
- LLM-assisted scenario generation for safety validation, data-driven
test scenario selection using measured sim2real gap, and replicable
evaluation based on provenance models (Positions #11, #12, #14, #15)
Partners include: University of Bremen, Bielefeld University, IT
University of Copenhagen, University of York, TU Graz, Cyprus University
of Technology, Laboratoire national de métrologie et d’essais (LNE), PAL
Robotics, EIVA A/S, and Cellumation GmbH.
Start date: February 2026 | Duration: 36 months | Deadline: October 20, 2025
Application procedure, requirements, and official announcement:
https://cavecore.eu/how-to-apply/
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