Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Potsdam
Potsdam
Germany
1. Oktober 2015
The Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism (PRIM) at the University of Potsdam, Human Sciences Faculty, Area of Excellence Cognitive Sciences is seeking to fill the following position:

Academic Staff Member (PostDoc)
Requisition No.: 124/2015

If possible, employment should begin by 01.10.2015. The post is for one year until 30 September 2016. The hours of work per week for the position amount to 26,67 hours. The Salary Scale is 13 TVL (Area East). Contracts are time-limited according to the Academic Fixed-Term Contract Law (WissZeitVG).

The Institute investigates grammatical processing in multilingual individuals and is funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (see http://https://www.uni-potsdam.de/prim ).

Responsibilities: The candidate will be
•    Working on sentence processing in bilingual speakers
•    Planning, setting up and conducting eyetracking during reading, visual world eyetracking during listening, and/or EEG experiments with bilinguals
•    Involved in the writing-up and dissemination of the research

Essential qualifications: The candidate should have
•    A PhD in linguistics, psycholinguistics or a related discipline
•    Experience with eye-movement-monitoring during reading, and/or visual-world eyetracking, and/or EEG experiments
•    Expertise in the statistical analysis of psycholinguistic data
•    The ability to use software packages such as BeGaze, Experiment Builder or Presentation for programming and analyzing experimental data
•    A near-native or native-like command of German

Desirable qualifications:
•    Expertise in second language acquisition or bilingualism
•    Good background knowledge of syntax
•    Expertise in advanced regression (LME) modelling
•    Knowledge of Turkish would be an advantage

The University of Potsdam strives to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching and specifically encourages female applicants to apply for this posi-tion.

Handicapped applicants will be given preference in case of equal suitability.

Please send your application, including the names of two potential referees, to PD Dr. Claudia Felser, Universität Potsdam, Potsdam Research Institute for Multilingualism, Haus 2, Campus Golm, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25, 14476 Potsdam.

DEADLINE for submission of applications: 30th May 2015.

For informal enquiries please contact: felser@uni-potsdam.de