PhD Position in Multimodal AI and Game Research 100 %

Your role

• Developing multimodal AI pipelines to extract information from gameplay, chat, audio, video, and game telemetry & interaction data.
• Collecting, curating, and integrating multimodal datasets from public game APIs, gameplay recordings, and other research data sources.
• Publishing research results at leading international conferences and in high-impact scientific journals.
• Presenting your work at international conferences, workshops, and meetings with project partners.
• Collaborating with researchers from AI and game studies at ZHAW, TUM, and other international partners.

Co-supervising Bachelor's and Master's students working on related topics. The position is fully funded for three years through the DIZH Fellowship Programme, allowing the successful candidate to focus primarily on their doctoral research. The PhD project is conducted jointly by the Institute of Information Systems (Dr. Elena Gavagnin, Co-Head of Information Systems Engineering) at ZHAW and the Technical University of Munich (Pof. Johanna Pirker). The successful candidate will be employed at ZHAW and enrolled as a doctoral researcher at TUM.

Your profile

• Strong programming skills and experience with software development for research or machine learning applications.
• Enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research at the intersection of AI, game research, and human behaviour.
• Excellent written and spoken English. Knowledge of German is an advantage but not required.

We would be pleased to receive your application by 30 August 2026.

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