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August 20, 2025

**Job Description**
This project focuses on investigating 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 between event-triggered learning and meta-learning can significantly increase RL efficiency at test time. An additional avenue explores the co-design of algorithms and digital neuromorphic hardware to further improve method efficiency, specifically investigating digital, event-based implementations of RL learning rules. Benchmarking will assess accuracy, latency, data efficiency, and energy consumption on 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
Scholarship, Temporary
Salary
Annual Salary: 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 a special payment ("Christmas bonus"). Position Classification: Pay group 13 of the Collective Agreement for the Public Service (TVöD-Bund) Benefits: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Fellow status (international visibility, research excellence, mobility opportunities, competitive salary), world-leading interdisciplinary research environment with state-of-the-art equipment, 30 days of annual leave, flexible working hours, extensive training courses and networking opportunities via JuDocS, targeted services for international employees.
Details
Temporary Duration: 3 years Location Requirement: Relocation required to Aachen, Germany. Temporary relocation/travel required for internships to Delft, Netherlands and Böblingen, Germany.
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) • Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, RWTH Aachen
Supervisor(s)
Prof. Charlotte Frenkel (for internship at TU Delft)
Supervisor Email
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Jülich Research Centre
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