Job Description
About the position
The Department of Data Science at Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), within the Faculty of Science and Technology (REALTEK), invites applications for a PhD position in Applied Causal Machine Learning. The position is affiliated with aiD, one of Norway’s national AI research centers focused on trustworthy, data-driven AI systems for critical industries.
The PhD position is for a period of 3 years, with a desired start date of 1st of October 2026.
aiD is a national flagship AI centre established to develop AI systems that humans can audit, understand, and trust. The centre works with applications in domains such as energy systems, health and medicine, logistics, infrastructure, and industrial operations.
The PhD project will focus on the intersection of machine learning, causal inference, and classical statistical methods. A central objective is to develop methods that move beyond correlation-based prediction toward ca...