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ELSA4TI – PhD position, legal challenges for AI use in technical industry (1.0 FTE)

We are looking for a keen and bright candidate for a PhD position that is available for a four-year term as part of the recently awarded ELSA Lab for Technical Industry (ELSA4TI) (funded within the NGF-Call AiNed ELSA Labs).

The ELSA4TI Lab is led by Prof Ming Cao, Director of the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI. ELSA4TI focuses on the ethical, legal, social and economic implications of AI adoption in the technical industry.

This PhD position focuses on the legal challenges technical industry is encountering when adopting AI in its processes. The successful candidate will carry out an analysis of how the European legal framework (including the AI Act, GDPR, worker rights frameworks) supports and/or restricts AI adoption in the uptake of AI in the process of select technical industries. The analysis will focus on case studies from industries partnering with the project. This position is embedded in the Security, Technology and e-Privacy Research Group (STeP) at the Faculty of Law and the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI research community.

Application deadline: 14 September 2025

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