Postdoctoral Fellow

Tilburg University | Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences seeks to appoint a

 Postdoctoral researcher (2-3 years, 0.8-1.0 FTE)

in the STEADFAST project (Swarm Technology Enabling Advanced Drone-Facilitated Active Support Tactics for Military and First Responder Operations)

Department of Philosophy at Tilburg University, the Netherlands

Starting date: Summer 2025. Deadline application 16th of April (07.00 in the morning).

For more information see advertisement: http://bit.ly/3DF7Agx

The postdoc’s primary responsibility will be to contribute to work package 4 of the project that concerns the Ethical, legal, and societal framework for Human Swarm Teaming (HST). Collaborators of this team are Prof. M.M.S.K. Sie (work package leader, department of philosophy, Tilburg University), Prof. L. Peperkamp (NLDA/Radboud University), Mr. Dr. C. Cuijpers (Avans/Fontys), the Air Defence C2 Group, MindLabs.

The main questions this researcher will focus on are the following.

How can swarm technology be deployed in an ethical and responsible way? What legal and moral frameworks are applicable to HST? Are these frameworks sufficiently tailored to the specific ethical and legal challenges raised by HST? Is the primacy of human control required for the moral and legal legitimacy of these kinds of technologies? Should it be? And more specifically tailored to this project, under which circumstances is it ethically and legally acceptable to measure human cognitive performance in HST systems and to use the results?

 See for deliverables advertisement in full 

Requirements position 
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher who satisfies the following requirements: 

• A completed PhD in philosophy and/or law, with a demonstrable affinity and knowledge of technology.
• A strong, promising track-record of international peer-reviewed publications. 
• Excellent speaking and writing skills in English, as demonstrated by published work. 

 or more information about the STEADFAST project (PI Prof. Marie Safar Postma, department of Computational Cognitive Science at the Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Science), see advertisement in full.

Further information and application see advertisement in full.

For inquiries about the positions and the project, please contact Prof. Sie ([email protected]), Dr. Cuijpers ([email protected]) or Prof. Peperkamp ([email protected]).

Recruitment code
Tilburg University applies the recruitmentcode of the Dutch Association for Personnel Management & Organization Development (NVP).

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