[Stellenangebote] PhD position Hector Fellow Academy, MPI, Tübingen

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From: Maier, Daniela <daniela.maier at hector-fellow-academy.de>
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:22
To: stellenangebote at lists.spline.inf.fu-berlin.de
Subject: Publication PhD Positions / Hector Fellow Academy

Dear Sir or Madam,

The Hector Fellow Academy funds a PhD position at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Tübingen. Ambitious candidates have the chance to carry out a self-developed PhD project in in Machine learning/Causal Inference/Statistical learning theory supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf. The doctoral researcher is employed as research assistants and receives grants for research expenses. Would it be possible to publish these position on your website? If yes, could you please assist me with that?

Below, you find the job information.

If you have any further questions please do not hesitate to contact me.

Many thanks and best regards,
Daniela Maier


Title:    Carry out your own PhD project! - Machine learning / Causal Inference / Statistical learning theory - supervised by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf

Closing Date:   31-03-20

Institution:   Hector Fellow Academy

Main text:
The Hector Fellow Academy offers you the opportunity to realize a self-developed research project under supervision Prof. Dr. Bernhard Schölkopf. He is one of the Hector Fellows, a community of outstanding professors from different research institutions across Germany working in STEM-subjects, medicine, and psychology.
Prof. Dr. Schölkopf studies the detection of regularities from observational data. He has significantly shaped the research field of machine learning with his work on kernel methods, showing that a large range of learning algorithms can be generalized to the nonlinear case and to non-vectorial data. More recently, he has combined machine learning and causal inference to develop new methods to recognize causal structures from observational data.
Your profile
You are enthusiastic about developing and investigating an innovative research idea within discipline of Prof. Schölkopf? You have a master’s degree in a scientific or engineering subject with excellent grades? You stand out from your peers due to your strong commitment and independent work? You are team oriented and communicative? You are willing to change your place of residence to Tübingen?
Our offer
Our PhD students are employed as full-time research assistants at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Tübingen for a period of three years. The salary is determined by the institute’s guidelines (according to the general pay scale of German universities approx. 47,000 EUR gross income per year). In addition, Hector Fellow PhD students receive grants for research expenses (15,000 EUR per year) and are given the opportunity to gain interdisciplinary expertise and relevant soft skills by participating in selected training activities.
Your application
Apply with your innovative, high-quality research idea via our Application Portal<https://hectorfellowacademy.applicationportal.org/>.
Current application period: January 15th  ̶  March 31st, 2020
Further information regarding the application process and the Hector Fellow Academy is available on www.hector-fellow-academy.de<http://www.hector-fellow-academy.de/en/phd-students.html>.

Daniela Maier

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