Open PhD Position in the ReScale Project

Ph.D. Position

The Institute of Mathematics, University of Freiburg, invites applications for a Ph.D. position (TV-L E13, 75%) for 3 years with a possible extension up to 5 years. Ideally, the starting date is 1st of May or June 2022.

The position will be embedded into the project ReScale - Responsible and Scalable Learning for Robots Assisting Humans which is funded by Carl-Zeiss-Striftung in its program scientific breakthroughs in artificial intelligence. The successful candidate will work on risk management under uncertainty in this program. The Department Mathematical Stochastics at Freiburg University offers attractive research opportunities and interesting connections to related fields like Statistics, Econometrics and Biomathematics.

The successful candidate will hold an excellent degree in Mathematics and has a sound knowledge on stochastic processes and mathematical finance.

For further information, please contact the supervisor Prof. Dr. Thorsten Schmidt (thorsten.schmidt at stochastik.uni-freiburg.de). Your application with motivation letter, CV, certificates and at least one letter of reference should be send as PDF to Monika Hattenbach (htb at stochastik.uni-freiburg.de) as soon as possible.