The European Research Council-funded Advanced Grant "Deep Culture - Living with Difference in the Age of Deep Learning" invites an application for a PostDoc position. Collaborating with PhD students and other PostDocs, the aim is to realise an ambitious interdisciplinary research agenda on deep learning and culture. We are looking for a talented, ambitious PostDoc candidate who can combine independent research with team collaboration. You will have the opportunity to explore exciting questions of contemporary digital culture and deep learning and contribute to shaping debates about our relations with AI technologies.

Are you looking for a PhD position where you can use your mathematical skills to improve existing mechanisms for democratic decision making and invent new ones? Are you excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, in a team of smart and supportive colleagues?

Then you may want to join us. We are looking for two PhD candidates in the field of computational social choice to join the COMSOC Group at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC).

On Feb 10, 2026, Bryan Eikema will be defending his PhD thesis A Sampling-Based Exploration of Neural Text Generation Models at the Agnietenkapel at 13:00. You're welcome to join us there. A mini workshop will also be held from 9:45 -12:00 in the morning at Oudemanhuispoort room C1.17, featuring talks by Bill Byrne and André Martins, with further details to be announced.

Danish Kashaev is a PhD student at CWI Amsterdam under the supervision of Guido Schäfer and Daniel Dadush, promoting at the ILLC. His thesis explores topics in approximation algorithms, online algorithms and algorithmic game theory.