Paid EPFL AI Center Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Organization: EPFL AI Center (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
- Type: Fellowship
- Location: Global
- Deadline: November 9, 2026
- Funding: Fully Funded
The EPFL AI Center in Lausanne, Switzerland, funded in part by the Swiss AI Initiative, is running the third call of its postdoctoral fellowship programme for early-career researchers who want to pursue their own AI research with EPFL faculty. Fellows are employed on EPFL's postdoctoral salary scale for up to two years, work with two EPFL host professors and their laboratories, and take part in the Center's seminars and research initiatives. Researchers of any nationality can apply if they finished a PhD in the last two years or will finish before the fellowship starts. **What you get:** - A full-time EPFL postdoctoral salary for up to two years, about half paid by the fellowship and the rest by your two host laboratories - EPFL's published 2026 postdoc scale is CHF 88,000 gross in the first year and CHF 89,500 in the second, including the 13th month - Up to CHF 5,000 per fellowship year for research costs, open data and open access publishing, travel and conferences - Office and lab space, equipment and administrative support from your host laboratories - Freedom to set your own research agenda, and a place in the EPFL AI Center's community of fellows, seminars and strategic research initiatives **What you'll do:** - Lead your own AI research project in one of seven areas: responsible AI, AI for science, sustainability, robotics, health or education, or AI fundamentals - Work with two EPFL host professors affiliated with the AI Center and collaborate across their laboratories - Take part in AI Center seminars, workshops and events, and help deliver some of them - Report on your research and spending after each year; the second year depends on a progress review of the first - Submit a data management plan within three months of starting **Key dates:** - 2 November 2026: complete the referee form on the submission platform, one week before the deadline at the latest - 9 November 2026, 17:00 CET: applications and both recommendation letters due - Start: after the decision letter, once legal and ethics requirements are met, and no later than six months after it - End of year one: a progress review decides the second year **More information:** - Application toolkit with the call guidelines, templates and the list of eligible host professors: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18w5cLpoPAW8XG-yZVOcS7Fk_faHQDpAa - EPFL postdoctoral salary scale: https://www.epfl.ch/campus/services/people-experience/en/remuneration-and-benefits/salaries-of-other-staff-categories/ - Current fellows and their projects: https://ai.epfl.ch/about/fellows-researchers/ - Questions go to the EPFL Research Office at research@epfl.ch
