Open positions

PhD & Postdoc applications

There are currently no funded PhD or postdoc positions available in our lab.  

Exchange students

If you are an international student interested in doing an internship, research stay, or your senior/master thesis in our lab, please, send us an application to srl@uma.es including your 1) CV, 2) academic transcripts, 3) a brief description of the project you'd like to conduct with us, 4) the expected duration of your internship/stay and desired starting date, and 5) whether you have access to a scholarship program that may fund your stay with us (see relevant info below regarding funding). 

• Note i: Incomplete applications will not be considered.
• Note ii: Currently, we can only offer internships and research stays to graduate students (master's or PhD), and these must be for a minimum period of 6 months.

Funding for international students

• Note that we can only offer scholarships to students who are currently enrolled at the University of Malaga.
• Most international students who intern with us often do so through different scholarship schemes and national/international funding programs, such as the Erasmus+ Program. You may want to check with your home university's international office for more information.

For information about housing and short-stay accommodations in Málaga, please check out this document. 

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Open applications

We are constantly on the lookout for excellent PhD students to join our efforts on: 

• Classical and data-driven path and motion planning approaches
• Autonomous localization and mapping across extreme planetary environments
• Advanced perception systems for perceptually degraded environments
• Novel actuation and locomotion system design 
• Precise manipulation and control of highly actuated platforms
• Adoption and deployment of learning-based methods for space robotic applications

If interested, you can send us an open application to srl@uma.es including your CV, academic transcripts, and a letter (~500 words) describing your experience and prior work in related fields (links to papers and repositories are encouraged). The letter must also include a brief description of the project you would like to conduct with us, outlining the what (goals and scope) and the why (scientific value and novelty). Note: incomplete applications will not be considered. 

 

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