Fully Funded PhD Positions in MSCA Doctoral Network RAICAM - Robotics & AI for Critical Asset Monitoring

06.06.2025, Wissenschaftliches Personal

We are looking for 1 PhD Position to work at the Technical University of Munich (Garching Campus) within this multi-disciplinary cohort.
This is an exciting opportunity to do a PhD in Robotics and AI on an important topic in a well-funded multi-disciplinary international training network. The training involves multiple activities, in addition to your research, and secondments across our partners.

Overview
RAICAM aims to train a cohort of 10 PhD students to work on the next generation of mobile robots for inspection and maintenance of industrial facilities. RAICAM will develop a multi-domain, multi-agent robotic sample retrieval system that will be able to obtain surface swabbing samples of critical infrastructure buildings for chemical or biological analysis. The cohort of PhD students are spread around multiple institutions, and more details can be found at the project website: Project Website: www.raicam.eu

Eligibility Criteria
• Not have resided or carried out your main activity (work, studies, etc.) in Germany for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately prior to the recruitment date (July, 2025).
• University curricula.
• Skills and academic background matching with the research project, and academic records (including transcripts) at masters level or equivalent degree level.
• Creative and innovation potential, ability to think out of the box.
• Motivation of the candidate for inter-disciplinary research.

Specific Requirements
Skills and qualifications required for each of the positions can be found on the project website

Salaries
Successful candidates will be employed on a 36 month contract with a salary of approx. 3,400 euros per month gross*; plus 600 euros mobility allowance and (if applicable) 660 euros family allowance. The research costs of the host organisation(s) are also supported**.
*Salary is scaled based on a pre-defined Country Correction Coefficient. In case of Germany, that would be: 0.983.

Recruitment
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Applications should be made through the project website: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeBqYI724l-GtianyBeY1Bg-_CfYHB6r8yZZnInv9W0TyB2SA/viewform?usp=header

Deadline
The application deadline is 04/07/25

Kontakt: cristina.piazza@tum.de