Job description
Applications are invited for a fully-funded 4-year PhD position in Logic and Semantics of Computing at the Fundamental Computing group at the Bernoulli Institute for Mathematics, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Groningen.
We are looking for an excellent PhD candidate who is interested in doing research at the interface of mathematical logic, program semantics and (co)algebra. Coalgebra is a branch of applied category theory that provides a framework for reasoning uniformly about many different types of systems, including automata, transition systems and Markov decision processes. There is a beautiful relationship between coalgebra and modal logic which mirrors the one between algebra and equational logic, and the framework of coalgebraic modal logic allows us to study modal logics at the abstract level of coalgebras. Potential research topics include coalgebraic dynamic logics for compositional reasoning about program correctness, and (co)algebraic foundations of reinforcement learning. However, the PhD candidate will have a great deal of freedom to define their own research project.
As a PhD candidate, you will conduct original research leading to a PhD thesis, completed within the 4 years of the appointment and defended at the University of Groningen. You are expected to present your research results at seminars and international conferences, and to publish in conference proceedings and journals. You are expected to make a small contribution (at most 10%) to teaching e.g. as a teaching assistant or supervising student projects.