Description

With about 17,000 students, more than 300 professorships and around 160 degree programs, the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) is the technical university of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. As a place of top international research, it offers excellent working conditions and career opportunities. Those who study, research or work at RPTU experience a cosmopolitan environment and shape the future.

The Campus Landau, faculty Natural and Environmental Sciences, iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences offers the position of a Postdoc Artificial lntelligence for Chemical Risk Prediction. The position will be part of a team evaluating the presence and ecological effects of environmental chemicals on large spatio-temporal scales. We apply meta-analysis, geostatistics, graph databases, modeling, machine learning and semantic web technologies to analyse and link these data. We furthermore aim to present the results using innovative and appealing web approaches. The position is part of the Carl-Zeiss project "AI4ChemRisk" (Al for Chemical Risk Prediction in Aquatic Environments) collaborating with leading research groups in Al, Machine-Learning and Environmental Data Science at the RPTU and abroad.

Your area of responsibility:

• Integration of chemical data using ontologies
• Prediction of molecular properties
• lnteractive visualization tools
• Large language models for natural language interaction
• Stakeholder engagement, outreach, and collaboration

Requirements

Requirements:

Successful candidates will hold a diploma or MSc and a PhD in a topic relevant to (data-driven) Ecotoxicology or Environmental lnformatics. We prefer experience in data science, specifically in the representation of complex spatio-temporal environmental or ecological data. However, other contributions to our main tasks are also considered.

We offer:

• Work in a motivated, innovative team focusing on data-driven ecotoxicology
• Integration into various ecotoxicological research tasks of national to global scopes
• Flexible work environment
• Flat hierarchies
• Health promotion
• Family Service Center
• Vocational Training
• Sport & Fitness programms
• Culture & Leisure offers
• Local recreation in the Palatinate Forest

RPTU stands for diversity among all employees. We welcome applications from all interested parties, regardless of their ethnic and social origin, age, religion, gender, disability and sexual orientation or identity. Preference will be given to severely disabled persons and persons equivalent to them if they have the appropriate qualifications and suitability.

The RPTU aims to increase the proportion of women in areas where women are underrepresented. Applications from researchers from abroad are expressly encouraged. The position can also be filled on a part-time basis. The appointment will be subject to the German law on fixed-term contracts in science (WissZeitVG).

We look forward to receiving your detailed application (CV, references, etc.) by 25.03.2026 at the latest.

Please submit your application using the "Online Bewerbung" button below or via our application portal (https://jobs.rptu.de).

For further questions, please contact Prof. Dr. Ralf Schulz (E-mail: r.schulz@rptu.de).