Open Positions

Many of the potential interdisciplinary cooperations within the KIT Center MathSEE start with Master theses. Furthermore, doctoral researchers work interdisciplinarily in MathSEE under professorships that promote interdisciplinary mathematical sciences in teaching, research and innovation.

We hence present options for master theses, doctoral researcher positions, postdoctoral positions as well as professorships here, which have an interdisciplinary setup in the area of mathematical methods and bridge mathematical methods to their applications in sciences, engineering or economics.

Currently, there are following open positions:

 

Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellows - Focus on: Bayesian Statistics & Statistical Learning -

 
Job description 

The Research Group Methods for Big Data at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology welcomes applications for a doctoral and postdoctoral research fellow.

In this project you will:

  • develop novel statistical methods that leverage the potential of Bayesian statistics and machine learning
  • investigate theoretical properties of the developed methods
  • implement the developed methods
  • contribute to joint research inside the group
  • publish the results at leading journals, workshops and conferences

Details about the research group can be found at https://kleinlab-statml.github.io/


Personal qualification - Job requirements
  • Excellent university degree (master) (and completed PhD for the postdoc position) in statistics, mathematics, data science, or statistics-oriented computer science
  • Strong expertise in the theoretical and computational aspects of Bayesian statistics
  • Profound expertise in at least one of the following areas (in addition to Bayesian statistics): High-dimensional statistics, Distributional and advanced regression, Survival analysis, Variational inference, Copula modelling
  • Track record and excellent publications in at least one of the main research areas above (for the postdoc position)
  • Strong computational, mathematical skills
  • Solid programming skills in any scientific programming language, e.g. Python, R
  • High proficiency in English, both written and spoken for your scientific publications and presentations
  • High degree of creativity, commitment, analytical competence, and interdisciplinary teamwork
Application Procedure

Please send the following documents to apply for these positions; as a single pdf of no larger than 10 MB to nadja[dot]klein@kit[dot]edu (Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein).:

  • Motivation letter
  • CV
  • Certificates
  • 2 Reference Letters
  • List of publications (for the postdoc position)


Questions can be directed to Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein. We are looking forward to your application. 

 

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