EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 9, 2026

Applications are open for the EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026-2027. The EPFL AI Center Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme, supported in part by way of funding from the Swiss AI Initiative, provides excellent and extremely motivated younger researchers the prospect to collaborate with a broad vary of EPFL college on furthering the capabilities and functions of AI methods in quite a lot of scientific domains.

The Fellowship programme focuses on excellence and collaborative analysis endeavours. Therefore, Fellows will work with a number of laboratories at EPFL and can be granted ample freedom to develop their very own analysis agenda. This will embody contributing to and collaborating within the varied neighborhood actions and strategic initiatives related to the EPFL AI Center.

Funding

• The fellowship covers a contribution to the wage of the postdoctoral researcher of appr. 50% per yr (EPFL wage scales apply). The remaining part of the wage is roofed by the EPFL host laboratories. EPFL Human Resources tips and practices apply with regard to social safety.
• A most quantity of CHF 5’000 per fellowship yr will be granted for analysis prices, open analysis knowledge prices, open entry publication prices, travels and conferences. These prices should be justified within the finances and within the monetary report. Any extra prices for analysis bills, journey, and so forth. should be lined by the host Professor(s).
• The host laboratories commit to creating the required infrastructure out there to the postdoctoral researcher (e.g., workplace house, laboratory house and gear, administrative help).

Eligibility

• Applications are inspired by researchers on the postdoctoral degree.
• Applicants should have obtained a PhD diploma in pc science, physics, engineering, utilized arithmetic, or one other subject related to synthetic intelligence, not more than two years earlier than the submission deadline.
• Doctoral college students within the final yr of their doctoral research are eligible to apply (senior PhD college students), offered that they are going to have efficiently accomplished their PhD diploma by the point they begin the fellowship.
• Applicants should have the help of two EPFL host professors who’re Faculty members affiliated with the EPFL AI Center. Applicants ought to subsequently contact potential host Professor(s) from this list and focus on and agree on a possible collaboration earlier than submitting their application.
• Priority can be given to exterior candidates. However, senior PhD college students and junior postdocs, who’re already at EPFL are eligible to apply.
• This programme is extremely aggressive, and the first analysis criterion is excellence, as measured by educational information and skilled accomplishments. Candidates making use of for the AI Center fellowship are anticipated to have wonderful grade transcripts.
• Applicants might submit just one application.
• Citizens of any nationality might apply for the AI Center & Swiss AI Initiative postdoctoral fellowship programme. No age restrictions apply
• Applications from candidates of all genders and backgrounds are strongly inspired.

Application

Explore the Application toolkit and learn rigorously the application tips. All paperwork have to be submitted in English.

All required paperwork have to be submitted on the online submission platform.

For extra data, go to EPFL AI Center and Swiss AI Initiative Postdoctoral Fellowships.