Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the interaction between information systems and machine learning

Universitetet I Oslo; Oslo; On-site; NOK 520,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Oslo invites applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in action-oriented modeling for trustworthy AI within TRUST—Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI. The position is full-time for three years and funded in full by TRUST. Starting date no later than 01 March 2027.

Work will be at the Department of Informatics, collaborating with TRUST researchers and the information systems group to address methodological challenges in aligning AI models with real-world workflows.

Responsibilities

• Conduct the research project Action-Oriented Modeling for Trustworthy AI in Practice.

Job description

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the interaction between information systems and machine learning

We invite applications for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow position in action-oriented modeling for trustworthy AI, available at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

The starting date is no later than 01.03.2027 and as soon as possible after the appointment.

The appointment is a full-time position for a period of three years.

The fellowship is funded in full by TRUST for the whole period. No teaching, supervision, or research-assistance duties are required in the position, and the fellowship period can therefore not be extended to four years on that basis.

No one can be appointed for more than one Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Oslo.

The place of work is the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo. The successful candidate will be part of the daily research and social life of TRUST – the Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI, and of the information systems research group.

The position is funded by TRUST, the Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI , which is a research centre dedicated to developing trustworthy AI systems that are accurate, fair, transparent, safe, and well-governed. The centre brings together researchers from computational and data science, law, social sciences, and philosophy to develop new AI technologies and study their societal impact in areas such as healthcare, industry, governance, security, and climate. TRUST is led by University of Oslo, SINTEF, and Norwegian Computing Center. With a consortium of over 70 partners from academia, industry, government, and civil society in Norway and internationally, TRUST’s research is theoretical, methodological, legal, and empirical in nature.

The postdoc will conduct the research project Action-Oriented Modeling for Trustworthy AI in Practice. The project addresses a persistent problem in applied AI: statistically accurate models routinely fail when they meet the organizations and ecosystems meant to use them. Models are misaligned with local procedures and decision processes, too rigid for resource-constrained operational systems, and opaque to the decision-makers who must act based on them. We treat this as a methodological problem rather than a technical one.

The primary deliverable of this position is a theoretical and methodological template that we call Action-Oriented Modeling. Rather than delivering finished