Recruitment for the TIB PAN Doctoral School for the Academic Year 2026/2027!
Recruitment for the Doctoral School of Information Technologies and Biomedical Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences Institutes (TIB PAN) begins on 14 September 2026 for the academic year 2026/2027. We warmly invite all interested candidates to submit their applications.
Recruitment Schedule
14-18 September 2026 – Submission of required documents by candidates, verification of formal requirements, and the first stage of the recruitment process.
21-30 September 2026 – Interviews with candidates and the second stage of the recruitment process.
30 September 2026 – Announcement of recruitment results.
Research Topics Available at NASK-PIB
- Applied Cryptography and Privacy Protection
Supervisor: Prof. Mirosław Kutyłowski (NASK)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Przemysław Kubiak (NASK) - Distinguishing Component Faults from Deliberate Attacks: Interpretable Machine Learning for Anomaly Detection in IoT and Engineering Systems
Supervisor: Dr hab. Joanna Kołodziej (NASK) - Generalizable Methods for Detecting Synthetic Materials Generated by Artificial Intelligence Models in Multi-Domain Environments
Supervisor: Dr hab. Eng. Mariusz Kamola (NASK)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Ewelina Bartuzi-Trokielewicz (NASK) - Investigating Covert Capabilities and Latent Behaviours in AI Models
Supervisor: Dr hab. Eng. Szymon Łukasik (NASK)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Sebastian Cygert (NASK) - Intent-Aware Large Language Models for Efficient Search
Supervisor: Prof. Arjen P. de Vries (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Wojciech Kusa (NASK) - Verifiable Biomedical Question Answering: Retrieval, Source Attribution and Hallucination Control in Large Language Models
Supervisor: Prof. Svitlana Vakulenko (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Wojciech Kusa (NASK) - Methods and Frameworks for the Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Large Language Model-Based Systems
Supervisor: Prof. Gabriella Pasi (University of Milano-Bicocca)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Wojciech Kusa (NASK) - Detection and Mitigation of Safety Failures in Vision-Language Models
Supervisor: Dr hab. Eng. Szymon Łukasik (NASK)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Sebastian Cygert (NASK) - Towards Safe and Aligned Agentic and Multi-Agent Systems Through Information Propagation Traceability
Supervisor: Dr Fazl Barez (University of Oxford)
Auxiliary Supervisor: Dr Eng. Sebastian Cygert (NASK)
The TIB PAN Doctoral School Is Formed by:
- Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Institute of Theoretical and Applied Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Mossakowski Medical Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences,
- Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (School Coordinator),
- NASK National Research Institute,
- National Information Processing Institute (OPI PIB).
Doctoral education at the TIB PAN Doctoral School lasts eight semesters and is conducted in accordance with the School’s curriculum and each doctoral student’s individual research plan. The first two semesters include courses common to all doctoral students, while semesters three through eight are dedicated to the implementation of an individual research plan under the supervision of the appointed supervisor.
Detailed information on the study programme, recruitment procedures, and the regulations of the TIB PAN Doctoral School is available on the School’s website https://tib.ippt.pan.pl/.