Expressivity

Three-year salaried doctoral appointment studying the expressivity, robustness and verification of neural models of automata. The project connects systems theory, statistics, optimization and formal methods, examining recurrent networks, attention mechanisms and state-space models. Work includes theoretical analysis, experimental algorithms and scientific publication. The advertised gross monthly salary is €2,300. The advert lists an October 2026 target start alongside a November application deadline; applicants should confirm start-date flexibility.

People are confronted every day with internal or external stimuli that can elicit emotions. In order to avoid negative ones, or to pursue individual aims, emotions are often regulated. The available emotion regulation strategies have been previously described as efficient or inefficient, but many studies highlighted that the strategies’ efficiency may be influenced by some different aspects such as personality. In this project, the efficiency of several strategies (e.g., reappraisal, suppression, distraction, …) has been studied according to personality profiles, by using the Big Five personal