2026 University of Konstanz PostDoc Position in Linguistics

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.Project B05 (“Children’s Tuning in to Word Recognition”) investigates whether variability in pitch accent and voice quality affects the use of these cues in word recognition in young children (18-month-olds, 20-month-olds, 22-month-olds) and adults. It analyzes natural variability in the children’s input, manipulates short-term exposure and correlates variability with eye-tracking data.

Your Responsibilities:

• Prosodically analyse infant-directed speech and code verbal and non-verbal behaviour of children
• Prepare materials for exposure phases with different kinds of variability in pitch accents and voice quality
• Set up and conduct eye-tracking experiments with children and adults
• Supervise student assistants to help in recruitment, database management, testing, child coding and documentation
• Analyze fixation data
• Publish research findings

Table of Content

• Summary
• Benefits
• Requirements
• Application Documents
• Application Deadline
• How To Apply

Summary

• Application DeadlineFebruary 15, 2026
• Study LevelPostdoctoral Fellowships
• SponsorUniversity Of Konstanz
• School to studyUniversity Of Konstanz
• Eligible CountryAll Countries

Benefits

• An open, motivated research team and interdisciplinary research environment
• Opportunities for further training and collaboration with other local research groups
• Many possibilities to expand and develop your CV (e.g. possibilities to contribute in supervision of BA and MA projects)
• Research support by student assistants
• Excellent career and equal opportunity coaching

Requirements

 

• A very good PhD degree in linguistics, language acquisition, speech and language processing, phonetics, psycholinguistics or equivalent
• Strong written and oral English language skills (B2 or higher)
• Good command of German (to communicate with parents) and good communication skills
• Experience with statistical data analysis in R (mixed effects modeling, Bayesian statistics or general additive modeling)
• Experience with analysing prosody and/or with (infant) eyetracking

Application Documents

Applications should contain:

• a short motivation letter
• an academic CV
• copies of all previous degrees
• the names and email addresses of two academic referees (one from the supervisor of the PhD thesis).
• Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Check also:
2026 Fully Funded Humboldt Research Fellowship
2026 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Scholarship

Application Deadline

February 15, 2026

How To Apply

Are you qualified and interested in this opportunity? Kindly go to University Of Konstanz on stellen.uni-konstanz.de to apply

• Questions can be directed to Prof. Dr. Bettina Braun via e-mail: [email protected]

For more information, kindly visit University of Konstanz webpage.