Research Associate in NLP, Mechanistic Interpretability and Trustworthy Generative AI

The University of Manchester • Manchester, England • Posted July 14, 2026

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated Research Associate in NLP, Mechanistic Interpretability and Trustworthy Generative AI. This role offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to AIRIS: Mechanism-Informed Generative AI for Causal and Dynamical Modelling in Multimodal Biomedical Research, a Horizon Europe project developing mechanism-informed generative AI for biomedical research. The post holder will be based in the Department of Computer Science and the National Centre for Text Mining.

  • Develop biomedical NLP methods for mechanism extraction
  • Design and implement methods for extracting biomedical entities, events, relations, causal claims and mechanistic pathways from scientific literature.
  • Build pipelines that link textual evidence to biomedical ontologies, knowledge graphs, causal models and semantic representations.
  • Develop methods to assess AI-generated hypotheses for plausibility, novelty, evidence support, contradiction, uncertainty and explainabi...