Prospective international Ph.D. students
Prospective international Ph.D. students/Doctoral candidates
Dear sir, dear madam, nice to know your interest in the research work of the Chair Dynamics and Control headed by me.
I am happy according to your interest in the research work of the Chair Dynamics and Control headed by me. We are working on an international research level and doing research in specific fields of dynamics, control, automation, safety and reliability with applications to several application fields. We are publishing on a high international level. If you think, you are interested in becoming a valuable member of our team, I want to invite you to apply for Ph.D. supervision at the Chair SRS, but be aware of the following requirements.
The group is obviously international oriented and therefore continously interested in Ph.D. students/Doctoral candidates doing research in the group. Applying for Ph.D. supervision in the SRS (Dynamics and Control) group requires without exception your support by an external and earned PUBLIC scholarship (which can be given to you by your home university, your home country/government or by DAAD). We do not offer industry- or project-based research work on a contract base to students coming directly from outside. We do not offer supervision for people not supported as mentioned or not paid (on a contract-base).
We offer the following PhD projects:
- Advanced Integrated Human-Machine Systems (HMS)
- Diagnostics and Prognostics in SHM
- Data driven-based behavior prediction (DDBP)
- High Reliable Automation and Assistance (HRA)
- Machine Learning I (SMC)
- Machine Learning II (ML-HMS)
- Modeling and Control of Agricultural Plants Behavior (MCAS)
- Neural Network-based Model Predictive Control (NN-MPC)
- Nonlinear Dynamics (ND)
- Vision-based Model Predictive Control (VB-MPC)
In case of interest please show me beside the typical application material (CV, grades, ...) also that you have strong english language skills (TOEFL IBT better than 95) and a detailed interest in ONLY one of our research fields (which are clearly described by you). Your german language skills can be (if necessary) improved by language courses in parallel (for example at the Goethe Institute, Düsseldorf) (on your cost).
If you fulfill the mentioned requirements I want to invite you to contact me.
In case of DAAD-scholarship application be aware about the time schedule of your application: application in september/october year 1 leads to begin language courses in may/june year 2 and start ph.d. research in october year 2.
Please accept that due to dozens of applications and requests a week I can and will only reply to those persons reading the hints written above and acting/writing with related care.
Yours
Dirk Söffker, Professor
Why Duisburg-Essen?
According to Shanghai Ranking 2023 [link]
Duisburg-Essen Automation and Control is ranked 2nd in germany (first: Technical University of Munich; third: University of Stuttgart).
The two professors behind the ISE Automation and Safety profiles (Prof. Ding (Automation and Control Engineering), Prof. Söffker (Safe Systems) are listed in the 2% Stanford list within the top 2% scientist of the world (in their field). [link]
All data: [link]