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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 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.
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 illusions, (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
Very good English and German skills
Experience with psycholinguistic 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
Career development opportunities
Collaborating researchers at doctoral, postdoctoral and professorial levels
Research support by student assistants
Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching
czypionka@uni-konstanz.We look forward to receiving your application by February 15th 2026 via our Online Application Portal.
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). As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact sbv@uni-konstanz.