PhD student position in Interpretability for Protein Language Models at Leipzig University

Apply by 15/10/26
Career Stage: PhD
Leipzig

There is an open PhD student position in Interpretability for Protein Language Models at the LION Lab, the research group of Leonie Weissweiler at the Institute for Computer Science at Leipzig University.

  • One fully funded PhD student (TVL-13 100%) for 3 years
  • Ideal candidates have a master's degree in computational linguistics, bioinformatics, computer science, data science, or a related discipline
  • Topic: Interpretability for Protein Language Models
  • Advised by Leonie Weissweiler together with Clara Schoeder
  • Leipzig, Germany
  • Application Deadline: Oct 15 2026
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