5 Postdoctoral Fellowship Positions at University of Twente, Netherlands — 2026
University of Twente in the Netherlands is inviting applications for several Postdoctoral Fellowship positions across research areas including stress monitoring, explainable AI, large language models, microfluidic technology, and photonic integrated circuits.
PostDoc Position on Monitoring and Feedback Systems Stress in Action
This postdoctoral project is part of the Stress in Action research program, which brings together more than 80 multidisciplinary scientists from six Dutch universities to investigate stress in daily life.
The goal of the research program is to measure stress in daily life using wearables, smartphones, passive sensing, and small cognitive tasks. The project will address real-time integration of subjective and objective user data and the design of non-intrusive and fair motivational feedback strategies.
The research will also focus on optimising the presentation of cognitive tasks and self-report and designing personalised end reports. In the coming years, the monitoring and feedback systems will be used to monitor large-scale cohorts for three months.
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Researcher in Semantic Interoperability and Explainable, Knowledge-Driven AI for Smart Systems (SAREF4XAI)
This postdoctoral research position focuses on semantic interoperability and explainable, knowledge-driven artificial intelligence for smart environments.
The project addresses challenges in AI-powered smart environments, particularly interoperability, transparency, trust, and automated task execution across heterogeneous domains, standards, and protocols.
The researcher will explore how ontologies, knowledge graphs, and knowledge-driven AI can be combined to support interoperable and explainable applications in the smart buildings domain.
The project is jointly conducted by the Semantics, Cybersecurity and Services (SCS) group at the University of Twente and the User-Centric Data Science (UCDS) group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Postdoctoral Researcher (17 Months): Ethics and Epistemology of LLMs4EU — Design, Data and Deployment
The LLMs4EU project, coordinated by the Alliance for Language Technologies (ALT-EDIC), aims to preserve European linguistic and cultural diversity in the digital age through cooperation between economic and academic actors.
The project aims to bring together leading European players in the field of generative AI and ensure that European companies, especially SMEs, have access to tools and resources for language technologies and Large Language Models (LLMs).
The project will develop tools covering areas from training LLMs to ensuring conformity with European legislation such as the AI Act and GDPR. Relevant use cases will cover telecommunications, science, tourism, public services, and energy.
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Postdoc Position on Microfluidic Mass Production of Therapeutic Microgels
This postdoctoral position is offered in the Leijten Laboratory within the Department of BioEngineering Technologies as part of the recently funded NWO-Perspectief RecovAir consortium.
The research combines microfluidic technology, material science, device engineering, and cell therapeutic strategies towards real-world applications.
The consortium develops novel delivery methods for lung therapeutics using microfluidic devices, nanomaterials, pharmacological compounds, advanced in vitro models, and therapeutic cells.
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Postdoc Position in Photonic Integrated Circuit Temperature Compensation for PIC-Based Sensing Applications
The Engineering Dynamics group in the Faculty of Engineering Technology at the University of Twente is offering a postdoctoral position within the Scale-up PIC based sensing project.
The research addresses temperature dependency in Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC)-based sensing systems. The project aims to reduce components, increase manufacturability and integration capability, and decrease costs without compromising accuracy.
The proposed solution is the development of a Physics Informed Machine Learning method that combines physics-based and data-driven models. The research will contain both experimental and modelling work.
The modelling will focus on identifying key physical relationships between temperature and complex photonic circuitry. Experimental work will be conducted in close collaboration with the industrial partner PhotonFirst.
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These postdoctoral opportunities may be particularly relevant to researchers working in artificial intelligence, machine learning, human-computer interaction, biomedical engineering, microfluidics, photonics, knowledge representation, language technologies, and interdisciplinary research.
Applicants should review the individual vacancy pages carefully for the complete eligibility requirements, position conditions, application procedure, and latest deadline before applying.