Call for Collaborative PhD position between NTUA – JRC

As part of a collaborative doctoral partnership between the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), this PhD position aims to develop a comprehensive approach to knowledge engineering for crisis management, enabling semantic interoperability and AI-enhanced reasoning across early warning and decision-support systems, within the European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML) and in the scope of the JRC portfolio on “Anticipation, Risk, Resilience”.  

The PhD candidate will be enrolled in the PhD Program of the NTUA School of Rural, Surveying, and Geoinformatics Engineering and will spend designated periods at the NTUA campus in Athens and the JRC site in Ispra.

PhD Position: “Cross-Domain Knowledge Engineering for Crisis Management: A Neurosymbolic Approach”

Application deadline: 9 February 2026

For detailed information about the position, as well as the application and selection process, please refer to the official call.

For any further inquiries, please contact Dr Margarita Kokla, email: mkokla@survey.ntua.gr

Attached: PhD position call.pdf