PhD in System Modelling And Simulation

The Department of Marine Technology has a vacant 3-year PhD position at the Faculty of Engineering in fundamental research on risk assessment and decision support for autonomous systems. The position is funded by the ERC AdG Breach, and will focus both on researching theory and performing experiments. The goal of Breach is to realize risk-based rationality in autonomous systems to achieve more proactive and intelligent behaviours, improve system safety, and leave the human supervisor with enough time to react and intervene efficiently when needed./nClose cooperation is expected with the other Post Doc and PhDs in the interdisciplinary project./nYour immediate leader is the supervising Professor, and your Line Manager is Head of Department./nLocation: Trondheim, Norway. University: NTNU (Norwegian University of Science and Technology).