Open positions

Please do not email Jakob Macke or other lab members directly about any position — PhD, postdoc, thesis, internship, research visit or student job. Send all applications and inquiries to mls-jobs@inf.uni-tuebingen.de. Emails to individual lab members will not be answered.

Open positions are advertised here and on Bluesky.

Please write applications in English, and use the subject line and include the information given in the relevant section below.

Internships for external students: we rarely have capacity for internships, research visits or summer projects for students who are not enrolled at the University of Tübingen, and are typically unable to respond to such inquiries.

PhD Students & Postdocs

PhD positions: we recruit PhD students primarily through graduate programs: the ELLIS PhD Program, the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS), the IMPRS Intelligent Systems and the IMPRS Mechanisms of Mental Function and Dysfunction. Application deadlines are usually in November. If you would like to do a PhD with us, please apply through one of these programs and name our lab in your application. We are sometimes able to consider PhD applications at other times of the year. To apply outside these programs, send an inquiry in English to mls-jobs@inf.uni-tuebingen.de with subject “Inquiry: PhD position at MLS Tübingen”, and include a CV, transcripts and a short statement of your research interests. We are generally not able to respond to emails sent to individual lab members.

Postdocs: we are sometimes able to accept postdocs, even when we do not have positions advertised. If you are interested in working with us, please send an inquiry in English to mls-jobs@inf.uni-tuebingen.de, with subject “Inquiry: postdoc position at MLS Tübingen”. Please include a CV and a brief description of your research interests and why you would want to work with us. However, please understand that we might not be able to respond to inquiries, especially for unadvertised positions. Please do not send emails to individual lab members.

B.Sc., M.Sc. theses, student jobs.

If you are a student at the University of Tübingen and are interested in working with us (e.g. for a masters or bachelor thesis, research internship, essay rotation or as an SHK/Hiwi), please send an inquiry in English to mls-jobs@inf.uni-tuebingen.de, with subject “Inquiry: [one of: B.Sc. thesis/M.Sc. thesis/SHK/internship/etc] at MLS Tübingen”.

Please in your email also include:

• i) a brief statement of what research you want to do and why you want to join our group (refer to the Research page for a description of research areas),
• ii) current CV including a description of previous research/work experiences,
• iii) a transcript of all previous courses and grades, and
• iv) information about desired starting-dates (for planning purposes).

If you are specifically interested in working with a particular person in the group, or have already worked with someone on a project, please say so.

To streamline our application process and to make it more predictable for everybody involved we have six application deadlines during the year (15.1., 15.3., 15.5., 15.7., 15.9., 15.11.). While you can submit your application at any time, we will only make decisions and respond to your inquiry shortly after these dates.

Please also follow this procedure if you are doing your thesis in another group, but are looking for a co-supervisor or second examiner. We expect that you have discussed this with your primary supervisor first. In this case, please include a description of the project and the name of your main supervisor.

Open thesis and internship projects

Open projects and contact persons are listed here when available. Currently no specific projects are advertised; please inquire as described above.

Contact

Applications and inquiries about positions should be directed (and written in English) to mls-jobs@inf.uni-tuebingen.de.

For everything else, write to mls-office@inf.uni-tuebingen.de or call +49 7071 29 70934.

Where to find us

Machine Learning in Science, ELLIS Institute Tübingen & University of Tübingen

Maria-von-Linden-Straße 1, 3rd floor / level 5

72076 Tübingen, Germany