SMASH

Machine Learning for Science and Humanities Postdoctoral Program

SMASH is an intersectoral career development training program for postdoctoral researchers, committed to advancing cutting-edge machine learning applications for science and humanities. Developed by a consortium of top-level institutions in Slovenia, SMASH is the first COFUND project coordinated by Slovenian institution, the University of Nova Gorica, and is co-financed by the European Horizon research and development program. The goal of the project is to attract 50 excellent postdoctoral researchers from all over the world in five years, of which at least 40 % are female researchers.

The SMASH program focuses on five main research areas:

1.) Data Science – Machine Learning for Scientific Applications;

2.) Fundamental Physics – Machine learning for Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology;

3.) Linguistics – Computing for Human and Animal Communication;

4.) Climate – Machine Learning in Climate Research;

5.) Precision Medicine – Personalised Medicine and Life Sciences.

SMASH is looking for postdoctoral researchers who come from any part of the world with ideas for ambitious projects in one or more of the program’s research topics. SMASH fellows will enhance their research excellence and boost their career prospects by becoming a member of a strong, internationally renowned team and through personal mentoring, tailor-made training programs, and secondments to some of the world’s most prominent institutions, they will shapen their skills and enhance their research excellence. Fellowship support will include generous allowances for living, mobility, family, research, and travel.

Project funding:

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 101081355.