[PlanetKR] Vacancy at Maastricht University - two-year postdoc in Symbolic Approaches to AI

[Tjitze Rienstra]

Dear Colleagues,

Please distribute. I have an opening for a two-year post-doc position in
Symbolic Approaches to AI at Maastricht University. Application deadline
March 15, 2026.

Thanks!

Best,
Tjitze

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*Postdoctoral Researcher in Symbolic Approaches to Artificial Intelligence*
The world is changing fast, and we are changing with it. At Maastricht
University, your work makes a real difference – whether you develop new
forms of artificial intelligence, help students grow as critical thinkers,
or contribute to the foundations of future technologies.

Our goal: Strengthen the theoretical foundations of explainable,
transparent, and reliable Artificial Intelligence through logic- and
reasoning-based approaches.

Your colleagues: You will join the Department of Advanced Computing
Sciences (DACS). DACS is an international community of approximately 100
researchers at various stages of their career, embedded in the Faculty of
Science and Engineering (FSE). Our department has more than 30 years of
experience in research and teaching in the fields of Computer Science,
Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Data Science, and Applied
Mathematics.

*Your role*

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have led to impressive
capabilities in natural language generation, reasoning, and interaction. At
the same time, many AI systems remain opaque, inconsistent, and difficult
to control. Symbolic (logic-) based approaches offer transparency,
structure, and principled reasoning, but often struggle with flexibility
and scalability in real-world applications.

In this postdoctoral position, you will contribute to research on logic-
and reasoning-based foundations for explainable AI. Your work explores how
symbolic and sub-symbolic methods can be combined to build AI systems that
are not only powerful, but also interpretable, trustworthy, and adaptive.

Your research may engage with topics such as formal and computational
argumentation, logic-based approaches to explainable AI, causal reasoning
and explanation, nonmonotonic and commonsense reasoning, reasoning under
uncertainty, dialogue and debate systems grounded in formal reasoning, or
hybrid symbolic–sub-symbolic AI architectures.

In addition to conducting high-quality research, you will publish your
results in leading international venues, present your work to the
scientific community, and contribute to grant acquisition activities. You
will also support educational tasks within the department, including
assisting in courses and supervising bachelor’s and master’s theses.

This is a full-time postdoctoral position for a duration of two years.

*More Information*

https://vacancies.maastrichtuniversity.nl/job/Maastricht-Postdoctoral-Researcher-in-Symbolic-Approaches-to-Artificial-Intelligence/1352701657/
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