About this role
Logo of EURAXESS Job offer AcademicTransfer - JOB - Netherlands - Posted on: 1 October 2026 1 Oct 2026 The Open Universiteit (OU) Research Field Computer science » Cybernetics Computer science » Programming Engineering » Computer engineering Engineering » Electrical engineering Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Application Deadline 1 Nov 2026 - 22:59 (UTC) Country Netherlands Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Not Applicable Hours Per Week 38.0 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No Offer Description Research challenges As a PhD candidate, you will develop methods for adaptive privacy protection of energy data , combining differential privacy, empirical privacy attacks and privacy-utility optimisation. Your research is part of the Adaptive Privacy and Legal Compliance work package in the SHARE project. More specifically, your challenges are to: - Investigate how temporal patterns, spatial information, rare events and other distinctive features contribute to re-identification and inference risk. You will work with metrics such as uniqueness, entropy, attack success rates and time-series-specific indicators. - Implement and study attacks such as membership inference, reconstruction, re-identification and attribute inference to understand where information leakage occurs in both original and synthetic datasets. - Investigate methods that allocate stronger protection to sensitive components and lighter perturbation to lower-risk components, thereby preserving as much analytical utility as possible. - Formulate privacy protection as an optimisation problem balancing formal privacy guarantees against statistical, temporal and physical utility requirements for energy-system applications. - Collaborate closely with researchers at Radboud University, who develop phys...