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Doctoral and Postdoctoral Research Fellows - Focus on: Bayesian Statistics & Statistical Learning

Publishing date: April 8, 2025

Job description:  

The Research Group Methods for Big Data at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology welcomes applications for a doctoral and postdoctoral research fellow.

In this project you will:

  • develop novel statistical methods that leverage the potential of Bayesian statistics and machine learning
  • investigate theoretical properties of the developed methods
  • implement the developed methods
  • contribute to joint research inside the group
  • publish the results at leading journals, workshops and conferences

Details about the research group can be found at https://kleinlab-statml.github.io/


Personal qualification:
Job requirements:

  • Excellent university degree (master) (and completed PhD for the postdoc position) in statistics, mathematics, data science, or statistics-oriented computer science
  • Strong expertise in the theoretical and computational aspects of Bayesian statistics
  • Profound expertise in at least one of the following areas (in addition to Bayesian statistics): High-dimensional statistics, Distributional and advanced regression, Survival analysis, Variational inference, Copula modelling
  • Track record and excellent publications in at least one of the main research areas above (for the postdoc position)
  • Strong computational, mathematical skills
  • Solid programming skills in any scientific programming language, e.g. Python, R
  • High proficiency in English, both written and spoken for your scientific publications and presentations
  • High degree of creativity, commitment, analytical competence, and interdisciplinary teamwork


We are looking forward to your application. Please send your documents (Motivation letter / CV / Certificates / 2 Reference Letters / List of publications (for the postdoc position)) as a single pdf of no larger than 10 MB to nadja[dot]klein@kit[dot]edu.


Questions can be directed to Prof. Dr. Nadja Klein