Overview

A PhD position in Artificial Intelligence, Physics, Law at Radboud University, based in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Applications close on 25 Oct 2026. The listing states that the position is paid.

Key facts

Opportunity type: PhD position
Organization: Radboud University
Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands
Field / discipline: Artificial Intelligence, Physics, Law
Application deadline: 25 Oct 2026
Funding / compensation: Paid
Duration: See source description
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Project description

Original title: PhD Position: Physics-Informed Generative AI for Synthetic Energy Data

You will design and compare deep generative approaches, UAEs, GANs, diffusion models/flow matching, and Gaussian processes for realistic load, generation and voltage time series.
You will embed physical constraints into generation: power-flow consistency (Kirchhoff's laws) as soft or hard constraints, operational bounds (voltage limits, capacity, phase balance), and network topology through graph neural network architectures.
You will build validated benchmark datasets and an evaluation framework covering statistical fidelity, temporal and spatial structure, physical plausibility and downstream task performance (e.g. train-synthetic-test-real forecasting).
You will collaborate with a fellow PhD candidate and a postdoctoral researcher on integrating differential privacy into the generative pipeline, balancing privacy guarantees against data utility.
You will contribute to an open-source synthetic data toolbox that DSOs, municipalities and researchers across the Netherlands will actually use.

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What type of opportunity is this and where is it based?: This is a PhD position at Radboud University, based in Nijmegen, Netherlands.
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PhD in Physics-Informed Generative AI for Synthetic Energy Data