8 allocations doctorales - Systèmes numériques et Société numérique - 8 fully funded PhD positions - Digital Systems and Digital Society (Université Côte d'Azur, France)

In 2025, we are awarding 8 research grants in all domains of Digital Systems and the Digital Society, including 3 grants with thematic priorities:

• Digital and Social Sciences
• Digital and the Environment
• Applied quantum technologies (quantum computing, quantum simulation, quantum communication or quantum metrologies and sensing), in partnership with QuantEdu-France through QuantAzur Institute

Cutting-edge research subjects

Here are some of the topics open this year (list updated daily on our website until May, 5th. Visit us regularly!):

• Abductive Reasoning for Requirement Violation Diagnosis in Cyber-Physical Systems
• Enhancing humanoid robot learning through large-scale VR-based real motion data
• Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Modeling Approach for Circadian Clock Synchronization
• Design and Evaluation of Collaborative Interactive Installations in the Web-Based Musical Metaverse
• Failure handling for robust concurrent systems
• Hybrid Reasoning in Cyber-Physical Systems: Bridging Design-Time Illusions and Runtime Reality
• Integration of Spiking Neural Networks into a Cognitive BDI Agent Architecture with Formal Verification
• Knowledge Graph-Based Provenance Modeling for the Evaluation of Interactive Visualization Tools
• Program Recognition with Graph Neural Network
• Solving Mixed-Integer Problems by combining Reinforcement Learning and Artificial Evolution
• Machine Learning Solutions for Quantum Internet
• A Hierarchical Time Model for Event-B
• The roles of inhibition and adaptation in retinal motion processing
• Impact of multidisciplinarity on research productivity
• Detecting and analyzing market manipulation on Bitcoin
• How LLM interfere with cognitive processes?
• Enhancing Large-Scale Distributed Caching Systems with Erasure Coding: Performance, Reliability, and Design Trade-offs
• 3D building reconstruction with interactive shape control
• Modelling Microbial Competition in a warming ocean
• Development and Certification of a Neural-network-based Controller for a Hybrid VTOL UAV
• State Estimation and Control of Convertible Aerial Vehicles
• Diffusion model for super-resolution fluorescent microscopy inverse problem
• Novel tensor decompositions for atrial fibrillation analysis
• Off-the-grid curve reconstruction in super-resolution fluorescent microscopy
• Multi-layer environment representation for autonomous robotics
• Modulation of Dynamical Structure–Function Correlation Across States of Consciousness
• Propagation of uncertainties: from EEG measurements to BCI classification
• Mathematical analysis and control of biological oscillators, under local and global environmental inputs
• Study and control of mathematical models of microbial consortia
• Mathematical modeling of cell death signaling to understand the variability of tumor cell responses to drug treatment
• Toward resilient and programmable bioprocesses: Modeling and Control of symbiotic microbial consortia under environmental stress
• Distillation for deep learning based processing of microscopy images
• Deep Learning Methods for the Video Understanding of Psychiatric Interviews
• Design of physics-informed and explainable artificial intelligence methods to enable the understanding and embedded real-time processing of complex self-mixing optical interferometry signals
• Development of UAV-borne radar for geophysical applications
• New approach for the treatment of multi-scale aspect in numerical dosimetry at millimetric frequencies
• AI and the labour market: theory and evidence
• AI-Driven Work Transformations in Creative and Cultural Industries
• Data-Driven Quality and Market Dynamics in Digital Economies
• International education in technology-enhanced learning: evaluation of transformative effects of community of practice activities for students and alumni

Inspiring research environment

As a doctoral student at Université Côte d'Azur, you will be provided with a very high-quality hosting environment:

• Attractive salary: ~ 2045€ (net salary, annual gross ~40,7 k€) as monthly living allowance and additional money for conference travel and professional equipment.
• Excellent research environment including international-renowned laboratories and IT companies from Sophia Antipolis, the fast-paced European largest technopark.
• International networking: researchers from dozens of different nationalities work together in our laboratories and almost 70% of the PhD students are foreigners. Read more about worldwide Université Côte d’Azur...
• Optional minor courses to open to new domains and boost your career.
• Individual support from Université Côte d'Azur Welcome Center and PhD Study Center (housing, administrative procedures, child-care solutions, newcomers meetups...)
• ... and the world-envied French Riviera quality of life!

Application

Find out more at https://ds4h.univ-cotedazur.eu/education/phd/annual-campaign

Deadline for application: 5 May 2025
Interviews: from the beginning of May to mid-June
Doctoral contract starting last quarter of 2025

Digital Systems for Humans (DS4H) is one of the 8 thematic graduate schools of Université Côte d'Azur. It is focused on scientific, technological and human aspects of the digital world and the digital society. On the education side, DS4H offers 5 masters (majors): Computer Science, Electronics, MIAGE, Intellectual Property and New Technologies Law and Digital Strategy / Management of Digital and Innovation. It awards doctorates with the STIC, DESPEG and SHAL doctoral schools. On the scientific side, DS4H runs a multidisciplinary research programme involving 13 leading laboratories in digital and social sciences.

No specific level is expected in any language. But you must be aware that the audition at the end of the selection process will be conducted in English. This is an opportunity to test your ability to work and interact with your future colleagues.