The Natural Language Understanding Research grouphttps://www.copenlu.com/ at the Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagenhttps://di.ku.dk/ is offering a PhD and postdoc position each on a new interdisciplinary project on “Human-Centered Explainable Retrieval-Augmented LLMs”https://dff.dk/en/our-funded-projects/see-an-overview-of-supported-research/?Bevilling.PolitiskTemaDK=Research%20on%20artificial%20intelligence&Bevilling.Finanslovsaar=2025&page=1 funded by the Independent Research Foundation Denmarkhttps://dff.dk/en/, led by Isabelle Augensteinhttps://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/ and Irina Shklovskihttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufIlFCIAAAAJ&hl=en. Read more about reasons to join CopeNLU herehttps://www.copenlu.com/post/why-ucph/.
PhD position
The PhD position is fully funded for three years and open to candidates with a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science or a related field. The PhD student’s research is expected to focus on explanation steering for human-centric RAG. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience in ML or NLP.
The PhD student would be supervised by Isabelle Augensteinhttps://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/ and co-supervised by Irina Shklovskihttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufIlFCIAAAAJ&hl=en, and also collaborate with the larger project team. In addition to a postdoc to be recruited, this includes external collaborators, including in information retrieval.
Read more about the position and apply herehttps://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=153280 by 1 February 2026 to be considered. The expected start date is 1 September 2026.
Postdoc position
The postdoc position is also offered for three years and open to candidates with a PhD degree in Computer Science or another relevant field. The postdoc’s duties will be to conduct research on user-centric RAG and information needs of people interacting with AI. The ideal candidate would thus have an educational background, prior research or work experience at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing.
The postdoc would work with Irina Shklovskihttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ufIlFCIAAAAJ&hl=en and Isabelle Augensteinhttps://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/, and also collaborate with the larger project team.
Read more about the position and apply herehttps://jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabelige-stillinger/?show=153139 by 1 February 2026 to be considered. The expected start date is 1 September 2026.
Isabelle Augenstein, Dr. Scient., Ph.D. Professor and Head of the NLP Section, Department of Computer Science (DIKU) Co-Lead, Pioneer Centre for Artificial Intelligence
University of Copenhagen Østervold Observatory Øster Voldgade 3 1350 Copenhagen
augenstein@di.ku.dkmailto:augenstein@di.ku.dk http://isabelleaugenstein.github.io/