Doctoral Position in Linguistics

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 ( ) 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" ( ). 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.

• 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

• 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 psycho linguistic methods and data analysis (R)
• Based in Konstanz to run and oversee EEG data acquisition

• 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 , + 49 .