Doctoral Position in Linguistics

IT-Systemhaus der Bundesagentur für Arbeit; Konstanz; Vor Ort; EUR 30.000 - 40.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

A leading research university in Germany is offering a Doctoral Position in Linguistics for a PhD candidate. This role involves conducting research within the SFB funded project, managing a participant pool, and carrying out EEG experiments. Candidates should have an excellent M.A. in linguistics and good communication skills in both English and German. The position offers a collaborative research environment with support for career development and equality.

Leistungen

Research support from student assistants

Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching

Interdisciplinary research environment

Qualifikationen

• Excellent M.A. or equivalent in linguistics, enabling focus on Ph.D. topics.
• Very good English and German language skills are required.
• Excellent communication and organizational skills are essential.
• Experience in psycholinguistic methods and data analysis using R is preferred.
• Must be based in Konstanz for EEG data acquisition.

Aufgaben

• Work towards a PhD within the SFB context.
• Manage a large participant pool with communication in German.
• Conduct web-based and EEG experiments.
• Preprocess and analyze data.
• Contribute to conference presentations and publications.

Kenntnisse

Excellent communication skills

Very good English skills

Very good German skills

Experience with psycholinguistic methods

Data analysis skills using R

Ausbildung

Excellent M.A. or equivalent in linguistics

Jobbeschreibung

Doctoral Position in Linguistics

Reference no.: 2026/017. The start date is 1st April 2026 or soon thereafter. The position is available until the end of 2029

The University of Konstanz is a dynamic and internationally successful research university with approximately 10,000 students. The campus university’s architecture promotes interdisciplinary cooperation and a sense of community among researchers, lecturers and students. The University of Konstanz has been continuously funded by the German Excellence Strategy since 2006.

The newly granted SFB 1760 (https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/ ) investigates the role of silence and noise in our capacity for perceiving, learning and producing linguistic signals. The first phase will run from April 2026 to December 2029 and encompasses a wide variety of theoretical, experimental, computational and empirical research within linguistics, in collaboration with projects from computer science, computational social science, media studies and sociology.

The advertised Ph.D. position belong to the project C01 "Interindividual variation at the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface" (https://www.ling.uni-konstanz.de/sfb1760/research-projects/project-group-c/project-c01-interindividual-variation-at-the-syntax-pragmatics-interface/ ). This project investigates interindividal variation in psycho/neurolinguistic experiments and their link to cognitive differences between participants. In a series of lab- and web-based studies, we will monitor participants’ linguistic performance for a wide range of phenomena (including (i) linguistic illnesses, (ii) processing at the interfaces, and (iii) social and rule-based pragmatics – the candidate will chose (i) or (iii) as their thesis topic), and correlate it with different psychological measures.

Your Responsibilities

• Working towards a PhD within the SFB context
• Managing a large participant pool, including reliable communication with participants in German
• Setting up and conducting web-based behavioral and in-house EEG experiments
• Data preprocessing and analysis
• Contributing to result dissemination via conference presentations and co-publications

Eligibility and Requirements

• Excellent M.A. or equivalent in linguistics, with background and interests that enable you to take on (i) or (iii) as your Ph.D. topic
• Very good English and German skills
• Excellent skills in communication and organization
• Experience with psycholinguistic methods and data analysis (R)
• Based in Konstanz to run and oversee EEG data acquisition

We Offer

• The opportunity to do a PhD within the Collaborative Research Centre ‘Silence, Noise and Signal in Language’
• An open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research environment
• Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels
• Research support by student assistants
• Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching

Applications should contain: i) a short motivation letter, ii) an academic CV, iii) copies of all previous degrees, including detailed transcripts of records, iv) the names and email addresses of two academic referees (one from the supervisor of the BA/MA/MSc thesis or equivalent). Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity, as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our dual career programme . Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact [e-mail], + 49 7531 88-4016).