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August 21, 2025

**Job Description**
This doctoral project investigates event-driven learning approaches within Reinforcement Learning (RL) to enhance data efficiency through meta-learning and pre-training, facilitating few-shot adaptations. The research aims to demonstrate how the synergy of event-triggered learning and meta-learning can drastically improve RL efficiency at test time. An additional focus is on co-designing algorithms and digital neuromorphic hardware, exploring event-based implementations of RL learning rules with benchmarking criteria including accuracy, latency, data efficiency, and energy consumption for small robotic control tasks.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Strong coding skills for programming neural networks, machine learning and machine learning software frameworks (e.g., PyTorch or Jax).
• Ability for creative and analytical thinking across discipline boundaries and abstraction levels.
• Knowledge in integrated circuit design, testing and simulation using Cadence (plus).
• Knowledge of digital neuromorphic hardware and sensors (plus).
• Ability for collaborative work, interdisciplinary and cross-topical thinking.
• Very good communication skills in English, both spoken and written.

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Physics
• Electrical/Electronic Engineering
• Computer Science
• Mathematics
• A related field (Master’s degree)

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Work Level
Ph.D
Employment Type
Full-time, Scholarship, Temporary
Salary
Position Classification: Pay in line with 75 % of pay group 13 of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund) plus 60 % of a monthly salary as special payment („Christmas bonus").
Details
Full-time / Temporary Duration: 3 years Location Requirement: Temporary relocation for 6-month internships to TU Delft, Netherlands and Mercedes-Benz, Böblingen, Germany. Campus-based
School / Department / Center / Lab
• PGI-15 • Neuromorphic Hardware Nodes (PGI-14) • Electronics Materials (PGI-7) • Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine - Computational and Systems Neuroscience (INM-6) • The Jülich Supercomputing Center (JSC) • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at RWTH Aachen
Supervisor Email
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RWTH Aachen University
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