Doctoral Candidates

Fifteen Doctoral Candidate positions open within the Horizon Europe funded MSCA Doctoral Network SPRINGSPRING is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Network under theHorizon Europe framework (Grant Agreement No. 101227080 – SPRING). It focuses on theresilience of future large-scale critical infrastructures that are deeply interconnected,cyber-physical, and exposed to evolving threats such as extreme weather, cascadingfailures, cyber-attacks and human error.SPRING aims to develop an innovative research and training programme to train fifteendoctoral candidates (DC), who will collectively engage in an ambitious interdisciplinaryresearch project focusing on aspects related to the resilience design, real-timemonitoring and control, anomaly detection and isolation, and incident response, ingeographically distributed systems of cyber-physical systems. The fifteen PhD topics willinvestigate open research questions about the use of systems and control theory, formalmethods, explainable AI, data-driven approaches, and human-centered design to buildsafe and resilient societal-scale critical entities.SPRING will also promote industrial excellence by offering opportunities to theresearchers for testing their tools and frameworks in real-world scenarios, provided bythe industrial partners. In this line, industrial partners will provide scenarios focusing onwater, 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 inthe 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 detailsand updates about the fifteen open positions, the PhD topics and the application andrecruitment processes.Position application deadline: 1st April 2026Position 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: nacim.ramdani@univ-orleans.fr #J-18808-Ljbffr