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Job offer - JOB - Netherlands - University of Amsterdam (UvA) via AcademicTransfer - Posted on: 3 November 2026 Two PhD Positions in AI for Science at the University of Amsterdam Dear User, please be advised that the EURAXESS and HR Excellence in Research portals will be unavailable for scheduled maintenance on 3 Nov 2026, from 13:00 to 16:00 CET . We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and appreciate your understanding. Page contents 3 Nov 2026 University of Amsterdam (UvA) Research Field Environmental science » Ecology Environmental science » Global change Computer science » Informatics Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Application Deadline 15 Jan 2027 - 22:59 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Not Applicable Hours Per Week 38.0 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description Curious how foundation models can accelerate environmental science, and how they reach their answers? Foundation models are changing how science is done. To truly help scientists, they must work with real scientific data, and we must understand how they reach their answers. We are looking for two PhD candidates (four years each) to make AI both useful and understandable for science. You will join a collaborative team at the University of Amsterdam, led by Prof. Evangelos Kanoulas and Dr. Ana Lucic, and work closely with AI researchers and environmental scientists across Europe in the Horizon Europe project EVELYN. Together, we will turn cutting-edge AI into tools that help researchers understand and reduce environmental pollution. Position 1: Fine-tuning and retrieval for multimodal foundation models in science Foundation models change how science is done: one model, pre-trained on broad data, can be adapted to many specialised tasks. S...