Institution/Organization: Linguistics Department, University of Konstanz
Web Address: https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/en/jobposting/4b139ee5415548b6432ea0ce2b1009d7c5d3878c0/apply

Level: PhD

Duties: Research, Teaching, Project Work

Specialty Areas: Clinical Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)
German (deu)

Description:

Doctoral Position in Multilingual Sentence Processing (part-time 50 %, E 13 TV-L) Reference no.: 2025/180.

The Multilingualism Group at the University of Konstanz headed by Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis is recruiting a PhD candidate to work within his team and conduct research on morpho-syntactic processing in multilingual children with typical language development, children with DLD or autistic children. The Multilingualism Group is part of the Linguistics Department that combines theoretical with experimental linguistics and offers a livelyand internationally well-connected research environment, where students are integrated in scholarly life and research at all levels. The department’sresearch infrastructure includes the Psycholinguistics Lab, the Neurolinguistics Lab, the Baby Speech Lab, the MuSe Lab, the Phonlab, theComputational Linguistics Lab, and the Centre for Multilingualism that conducts, disseminates, and communicates research on multilingualism toacademic and non-academic audiences. The doctoral researcher will join the doctoral programme of the Linguistics Department and will besupervised by Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis.

Your responsibilities:
- Conducting research on language development in multilingual children with focus on morpho-syntactic processing
- Working towards a PhD
- Teaching on our BA/MA programmes (1course each semester)
- Supervising student theses at the BA, BEd level
- Contributing to national and international research projects. Contributing to administrative duties within Multilingualismteam
- Presenting research at national and international conferences
- Contributing to transfer activities at the Centre for Multilingualism

Your profile:
- Excellent MA/MSc degree in Bilingualism/Multilingualism/Linguistics/Speech& Language Therapy, or related discipline
- Research interest in morpho-syntactic processing
- Some experience working with primary school children
- Very good proficiency in English and ideally also German
- Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
- Knowledge of statistics and previous teaching or tutoring experience is desirable
- Experience with reaction time experiments, eye-tracking or ERP experiments is desirable

We offer:
- The opportunity to do a PhD within the international and research-intensive Multilingualism Group
- The opportunity to be part of a friendly,lively linguistics department with a broad range of research specialisms, an international profile, and a strong record of third-party funding
- Salary according to the pay-scale for University employees (TV-L 13)
- Career development opportunities and support
- Training in Science Communication

The start date is 20th October 2025 or soon thereafter and is available for three years initially.

Application Deadline: 15-Sep-2025

Web Address for Applications: https://stellen.uni-konstanz.de/en/jobposting/4b139ee5415548b6432ea0ce2b1009d7c5d3878c0/apply

Contact Information:
Theodoros Marinis