Start date: January 2026 (or later)
Advertised on: October 24, 2025
/ Application deadline: November 7, 2025
The Research Training Group (RTG) 2853 “Neuroexplicit Models of Language, Vision, and Action” is looking for student research assistants (Hiwis). You will work with one of the 25 PhD students and postdocs in the RTG on exciting topics of current research. Depending on the exact topic, your job will involve programming, running experiments, data annotation, or other activities.
Topics
You can find a list of all currently available topics in this document.
Application
Apply by the deadline specified above by filling out the application form.
All students will be employed under Saarland University’s standard conditions for student assistants (Bachelor students as SHK, Master students as WHK). The number of hours per week depends on the topic and is negotiable.
We will advertise more positions for student assistants in a few months; feel free to apply then if you have to miss the current hiring round.
About the RTG Neuroexplicit Models
Neuroexplicit models combine neural and human-interpretable (“explicit”) models in order to overcome the limitations that each model class has separately. They include neurosymbolic models, which combine neural and symbolic models, but also e.g. combinations of neural and physics-based models. In the RTG, we will improve the state of the art in natural language processing (“Language”), computer vision (“Vision”), and planning and reinforcement learning (“Action”) through the use of neuroexplicit models and investigate the cross-cutting design principles of effective neuroexplicit models (“Foundations”).
The RTG funds 24 PhD students and one postdoc to do research on neuroexplicit models. It brings together 14 PIs from Saarland University, the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). We look forward to having you join us!