PhD GenAI Co-Design Aalborg - Maskinlæring

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) is rapidly transforming higher education, yet most current GAI systems are designed to support individual productivity rather than collaborative learning. This creates a mismatch with educational approaches such as Problem- and Project-Based Learning (PBL), where learning emerges through dialogue, negotiation, shared inquiry, and collective knowledge building. As GAI becomes increasingly integrated into educational practice and uncritically adopted by students, there is a need to rethink both the role and design of GAI systems to ensure they strengthen rather than undermine collaboration, student agency, and critical engagement.

AI:X is an ambitious initiative at Aalborg University that aims to advance AI research and create real-world impact through interdisciplinary collaboration, and ten labs will be initiated in 2026 with a total of 20 PhD stipends.

AI:X Collaborate is an interdisciplinary research lab part of this initiative which is dedicated to understanding and designing AI-supported collaborative learning environments and technologies. The lab investigates how students learn with, through, and around AI, and develops new human-AI-human interaction paradigms that support collaborative processes rather than isolated individual use. Combining perspectives from the learning sciences, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), Computer-Supported Collaborate Work (CSCW), Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Participatory Design, and Artificial Intelligence, the lab explores how AI can act as a local infrastructure for collective inquiry, knowledge building, reflection, decision-making, and collaborative production.

In this connection, AI:X Collaborate Lab offers a PhD stipend at the Department of Architecture, Design and Media Technology at the Technical Faculty of IT and Design (TECH) at Aalborg University.

Your work tasks

• Application, stating reasons for applying and qualifications in relation to the position
• Curriculum Vitae (CV)
• Diplomas (bachelor’s and master’s degree diploma, including grades)
• Project description containing the research project title, an outline of the course of study and a description of the overall problem areas (max 1 page = 2400 typing units)
• Other relevant documents

The application must be submitted via Aalborg University’s recruitment system, which can be accessed under the job advertisement on Aalborg University’s website.

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Further information  

The assessment of candidates for the position will be carried out by qualified experts. Shortlisting will be applied. This means that after the application deadline, the head of the department, with the assistance of the hiring committee, will select the applicants to be assessed. All applicants will be informed whether they have been shortlisted for assessment or not.

Salary and terms of employment

Salary and terms of employment are in accordance with the collective agreement between the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations and the state (AC collective agreement) (in Danish). There is a mutual probationary period of 3 months for the position.

Aalborg University

Denne stilling er publiceret af Aalborg Universitet via jobnet.dk