two research staff positions in Psycholinguistics

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2 research staff positions (at 65%), Institute for German Studies and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, TV-L HU E13.

The successful candidate will work with Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle and Dr. Katja Maquate in the SFB („Register“) third-party-funded project „Situation-register congruence meets morphosyntax and verb-argument violations: real-time and post-sentence comprehension“. Opportunity to pursue a PhD for successful candidates.

Area of research: The project is situated in the psycholinguistics group (Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle) at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, http://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/Homepage__Psycholinguistics/Home.html. The project investigates the effects of congruence between situations and language register in young adults using simple behavioral experiments, eye-tracking, and EEG (electroencephalography), and also includes work towards a stimulus database.

Requirements:
- Completed university degree in Psycholinguistics, Cognitive Science, Linguistics, Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience (or other relevant areas)
- At least basic expertise in Eye tracking and / or EEG (conducting studies, analyzing data)
- Basic knowledge in one programming or scripting language
- Good knowledge in statistics
- Very good German and English (oral and written)
- Structured, independent and disciplined work style
- Highly motivated

To ensure gender equality, applications from qualified women are particularly welcome. Severely disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential consideration. Applications from people with a migration background are welcome.

Please send your application by 14. February 2020 to Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle exclusively in electronic form: admin-psycholinguistik@hu-berlin.de, citing the application code DR/002/20.

Please send your letter of motivation and your CV as 1 pdf, and name 2-3 references. (YOURNAME_APPLICATIONCODE.pdf). Up to 3 attachments (e.g., reports, master’s thesis, publications) as PDF only (filename: YOURNAME_XXX). The total size of attachments should be < 6MB.

German (legally binding) text: https://www.personalabteilung.hu-berlin.de/de/stellenausschreibungen/wissenschaftliche-r-mitarbeiter-in-m-w-d-mit-65-v-h-d-regelm-arbeitszeit-e-13-tv-l-hu-drittmittelfinanzierung-befristet-fuer-4-jahre

Prof. Dr. Pia Knoeferle
Chair for German Linguistics: Psycholinguistics

Director of "Institut für deutsche Sprache und Linguistik", Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin

https://amor.cms.hu-berlin.de/~knoeferp/Homepage__Psycholinguistics/Home.html
https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/de/institut/professuren/psycholinguistik/psyling/staff-members

Office: Ingrid Häfner
Email: admin-psycholinguistik@hu-berlin.de

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