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Logo of EURAXESS Job offer AcademicTransfer - JOB - Netherlands - Posted on: 7 March 2026 7 Mar 2026 AMOLF Research Field Physics » Computational physics Physics » Condensed matter properties Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Application Deadline 2 Sep 2026 - 07:01 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Not Applicable Hours Per Week 40.0 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description Work Activities We are seeking an excellent and motivated postdoctoral researcher to join our team at AMOLF, working on fundamental questions on physical self-learning systems as part of the NWO ENW‑M1 project "How do physical learning systems learn?" . The research position is intended to start in September 2026 . Physical learning is an emerging paradigm in which materials adapt their behavior through local physical rules, without digital computation. Despite rapid experimental progress, it remains poorly understood how such systems learn and what signatures learning leaves in their physical structure and energy landscape. This project aims to build the theoretical foundations of physical learning, uncovering the modes of learning available to linear and nonlinear systems, their expressiveness and capacity, and the physical imprints of learned tasks. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to developing this theoretical framework, with a strong focus on analytical modeling, computational methods, and the interpretation of learning signals embedded in physical structures. Recent advances in our group, including new methods for detecting learning signals in linear networks that reveal aspects of the tasks they have learned, provide a powerful conceptual starting point. The scope of possible topics includes: - Developing theoretical tools to char...
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Contact: Menachem Stern | Email: [email removed]
