Doctoral Candidates

MSCA Doctoral Network SPRING; Bourges; Sur place; EUR 60 000 - 80 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A European research initiative is seeking fifteen Doctoral Candidates to engage in interdisciplinary research on the resilience of large-scale critical infrastructures. This program offers an innovative training environment focusing on systems and control, real-time monitoring, and anomaly detection. Candidates will collaborate with industrial partners in real-world scenarios, enhancing their practical skills. The positions have a deadline for applications by April 1st, 2026, with a start date in September 2026.

Qualifications

• A strong background in systems and control theory, formal methods, or explainable AI.
• Experience with data-driven approaches and human-centered design.
• Ability to engage in interdisciplinary research.

Responsabilités

• Conduct research projects focused on resilience design and monitoring.
• Investigate the use of innovative IoT components in real-world scenarios.
• Collaborate with industrial partners on practical use cases.

Formation

Doctoral degree or equivalent

Description du poste

Fifteen Doctoral Candidate positions open within the Horizon Europe funded MSCA Doctoral Network SPRING

SPRING is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network under the

Horizon Europe framework (Grant Agreement No. 101227080 – SPRING). It focuses on the

resilience of future large-scale critical infrastructures that are deeply interconnected,

cyber-physical, and exposed to evolving threats such as extreme weather, cascading

failures, cyber-attacks and human error.

SPRING aims to develop an innovative research and training programme to train fifteen

doctoral candidates (DC), who will collectively engage in an ambitious interdisciplinary

research project focusing on aspects related to the resilience design, real-time

monitoring and control, anomaly detection and isolation, and incident response, in

geographically distributed systems of cyber-physical systems. The fifteen PhD topics will

investigate open research questions about the use of systems and control theory, formal

methods, explainable AI, data-driven approaches, and human-centered design to build

safe and resilient societal-scale critical entities.

SPRING will also promote industrial excellence by offering opportunities to the

researchers for testing their tools and frameworks in real-world scenarios, provided by

the industrial partners. In this line, industrial partners will provide scenarios focusing on

water, energy and transportation services, inspired by a real deployment using state-of-

the-art and innovative IoT components. The research outcomes that will be validated in

the context of these use cases will be reusable with other critical entities in other sectors.

Please visit the SPRING Doctoral Network webpage spring-project.eu for more details

and updates about the fifteen open positions, the PhD topics and the application and

recruitment processes.

Position application deadline: 1st April 2026

Position starting date: September 2026.

For general enquiries about the SPRING Doctoral Network, please contact:

The Project Coordinator – Prof. Nacim Ramdani, Full Professor, Université of Orléans, France.

Email: [e-mail]