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The following job offers are for First Stage Researcher (R1) -- make a PhD on AI, Law and Ethics with us! DC12 Interoperable data sharing (posted on March 22nd, 2025)Ghent University (Belgium)Interoperable data sharing. The candidate will have to research and enhance the interoperability of decentralized data vaults based on Solid, while maintaining compliance with EU regulations on AI and data protection. The student is also expected to extend existing protocols, data formats, and data sharing mechanisms with information in data vaults to facilitate seamless communication and data exchange among various decentralized data vault systems, including Solid.
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DC11 Artificial Intelligence and Law (posted on March 25th, 2025)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)Self-Aware Data Assets for Supporting SovereigntyThe candidate will have to: (1) Research on the integration of AI in data exchanges happening in data markets. (2) Research on intelligent agents operating in data markets.
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DC05 Artificial Intelligence and Law (posted on March 25th, 2025)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)Open Models for AI/Data Risk Assessment. The candidate will have to: (1) Research technologies to assess AI-related risks; (2) develop and tools to represent, communicate and manage AI-related risk information, in connection with the EU AI and DSA Regulations.
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DC04 Data Science and Law (posted on March 25th, 2025)Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain)Risks and Opportunities of European Data SpacesThe candidate will have to: (1) quantitatively research data flows in Common European Data Spaces; (2) research technologies to grant compliance with European data and AI legislation; (3) implement technologies to enable data flows from SOLID pods into data spaces.
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DC07 Policy making on AI (posted on April 2nd, 2025)Rathenau Instituut (Netherlands)Multi-level governance of AIThe candidate will investigate how the multi-level governance of the ethical, ecological, legal, and social issues related to the use of AI in the European electricity sector takes place, by looking at how European regulations in the field of AI, data governance and electricity are implemented at national level. This multi-level governance process will be studied in at least two European countries, including the Netherlands.
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DC08 Technology ethics (posted on April 11th, 2025)Twente University (Netherlands)The University of Twente is looking for a doctoral candidate (DC) to work on “Anticipatory Ethics of Self-Sovereign Identity in Data Spaces.” The candidate should have a strong background in philosophy (Bachelor’s or Master’s degree) and enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research (philosophy, law, data science, and AI) within an international project (HARNESS Training Network, see below). This is a four-year position.
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DC10 Impact of EU AI Regulation on Competitive Advantage (posted on April 12th, 2025)Mykolas Romeris University (Lithuania)The doctoral candidate will assess the potential impact of (future) EU AI and data regulation in terms of stimulating new business start-ups and the entry of businesses from other regions or countries. One of the evaluation criteria will be to explore the views of existing businesses on how business conditions would change for them and on the potential for new investment and product development as a result of new regulation. The DC will identify appropriate research topics, design an appropriate questionnaire, find an appropriate format for contacting respondents, collect responses and evaluate them.
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DC09 Law and Technology (posted on April 19th, 2025)Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium)The main line of research will be the “Interplay of the GDPR and the New Data Laws: Between Fundamental Rights and Data Markets”. The PhD research is expected to focus on exploring potential ways to develop an integrated legal approach to data with the aim to facilitate better regulation based on reconciling internal market interests with EU fundamental rights. More info at VUB website.
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DC13 Computer Science (posted on May 6th, 2025)Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)The Doctoral Candidate will investigate novel models for the collective governance of Data Spaces in Professional Knowledge domains. Recent advances in large language models and generative AI raise profound questions about the future directions of knowledge-based professions such as engineering, law and medicine. This research position will examine how digital forms of professional knowledge such as textbooks, articles, professional exams, continuous professional training and on-the-job AI prompts and their refinements are used to improve generative AI. . More info at TCD website.
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DC06 Ethics of AI Foundational Models (posted on June 23rd, 2025)Dublin City University (Ireland)Research on the ethics of AI Foundational Models, enrolled in the Institute of Ethics in the School of Theology, Philosophy, and Music at Dublin City University. The candidate will receive training to enable them to integrate and apply arguments, analyses and tools from across the fields of artificial intelligence, law and ethics, so that they can excel in research and data science careers within digital services industry and public policy sectors. More info at website.
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DC03 Law as Code: searchable and enforceable AI and data regulations (posted on June 17rd, 2025)University of Bologna (Italy)The DC will investigate machine-readable encoding of AI and data norms, extending existing languages and reusing the vocabulary elements identified by DC2. The DC will benefit from the extensive experience of UPM in ontological engineering and data model design during the secondment. The validity of the legal isomorphisms will be made together with DC1. Both legislation and private contracts will be encoded, leaning on the experience of CYBLY (second secondment) on the structured representation of contracts. The DC will develop proof of concept computer applications (TRL3), to be integrated within broader legal ecompliance systems, i.e., contracts and norms will interoperate for their automatic execution possibly within Data Spaces (DC12). This researcher may visit JRC in Ispra (Italy) in order to align to align the research with the policies on AI for Interoperability in the European Public Sector and getting to know more on LEOS system (Open Source software for editing legislation). The DC will advance the report 'Drafting legislation in the era of AI and digitisation'. The better searchability of legal texts annotated with the vocabularies created by DC2, after being expanded with synonyms and rich relations taken from external resources, will also be explored. More info at website.
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DC02 Computer Science (posted on July 1st, 2025)Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)Taxonomy of Actors, Rights and Obligations across AI and Data Regulations. The Doctoral Candidate will first create a taxonomy for each of the Data and AI regulations (accepted and proposed) in terms of actors, rights, and compliance obligations; and utilize these to harmonize and align concepts to provide a unified taxonomy of European Data and AI regulatory spaces. This work will be done together with legal scholars. Secondly, the candidate will formalize developed taxonomies as legal ontologies that will enable representing use-cases and requirements as knowledge graphs and aid development of methods and tools. Further use of developed taxonomies will be undertaken to express and assess legality of language models as a specific use- case related to both AI and Data and their ethical and societal dimensions. More info at website.
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DC01 Law and AI (posted on July 7th, 2025)Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)Charting the Course for Trustworthy AI. We’re excited to announce an open PhD position as part of the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, HARNESS – Harnessing AI and Data-Intensive Technologies, funded by the European Commission’s Horizon Europe programme. This position offers the unique opportunity to explore the legal and regulatory landscape of the EU AI Act, with a focus on creating AI systems that are both innovative and trustworthy. More info at website.
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Requirements
- must not have a doctoral degree at the date of their recruitment
- must work exclusively for the project
- must not have resided or carried out their main activity (work, studies, etc.) in the country of the recruiting institution for more than 12 months in the 36 months immediately before their recruitment date. Compulsory national service, short stays such as holidays, and time spent as part of a procedure for obtaining refugee status under the Geneva Convention are not taken into account
- must enroll in a doctoral programme before starting to work
- willing to undertake physical, transnational mobility (i.e. move from one country to another) when taking up their appointment
- can be of any nationality