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Two fully funded PhD positions in Natural Language Processing at University of Leipzig
Apply by January 15th, 2026
Career Stage: PhD
Leipzig
There are two open PhD positions in Natural Language Processing available at the Institute for Computer Science at Leipzig University, in the group of Leonie Weissweiler.
Potential research topics include but aren’t limited to:
Linguistic Interpretability
Multilingual Evaluation
Computational Typology
Positions are fully funded for at least three years and will be affiliated with the ScaDS.AI graduate school. Ideal PhD candidates have a master's degree in computational linguistics, computer science or a related discipline.
Positions: Full-time (TV-L E13) for 3 years
Preferred start date: 1st of April 2026
More information: https://leonieweissweiler.github.io/phd_leipzig.pdf
Application deadline: 15th of January 2026