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Friday, May 15, 2020 by Chris Wellekens

6-20 (2019-12-19) Postdoc at Bielefeld University, Germany
  

The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University offers a full-time

 

research position (postdoctoral position, E13 TV-L, non-permanent) in phonetics

 

The Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies offers a full time post-doctoral position in phonetics for 3 years (German pay scale: E13). 

The Bielefeld phonetics group is well known for its research on phenomena in spontaneous interaction, prosody, multimodal speech and spoken human-machine interaction. Bielefeld campus offers a wide range of options for intra and interdisciplinary networking, and further qualification.

 

Your responsibilities:

- conduct independent research in phonetics, with a visible focus on modeling or speech technology (65%).

- teach 2 classes (3 hours=4 teaching units/week) per semester in the degree  offered by the linguistics department, including the supervision of BA and MA theses and conducting exams (25%).

- organizational tasks that are part of the self-administration of the university (10%).

 

Necessary qualifications:

 

- a Masters degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., phonetics, linguistics, computer science, computational linguistics)

- a doctoral degree in a relevant discipline

- a research focus in phonetics or speech technology

- state-of-the-art knowledge in statistical methods or programming skills

- knowledge in generating and analyzing speech data with state-of-the-art tools

- publications

- teaching experience

- a co-operative and team oriented attitude

- an interest in spontaneous, interactive, potentially multimodal data

 

Preferable qualifications:

 

- experience in the acquisition of third party funding

 

Remuneration

 

Salary will be paid according to Remuneration level 13 of the Wage Agreement for Public Service in the Federal States (TV-L). As stipulated in § 2 (1) sentence 1 of the WissZeitVG (fixed-term employment), the contract will end after three years, In accordance with the provisions of the WissZeitVG and the Agreement on Satisfactory Conditions of Employment, the length of contract may differ in individual cases. The employment is designed to encourage further academic qualification. In principle, these full-time position may be changed into a part-time position, as long as this does not conflict with official needs.

Bielefeld University is particularly committed to equal opportunities and the career development of its employees. It offers attractive internal and external training and further training programmes. Employees have the opportunity to use a variety of health, counselling, and prevention programmes. Bielefeld University places great importance on a work-family balance for all its employees.

Application Procedure

For full consideration, your application should be received via either post (see postal address below) or email (a single PDF) document sent to alexandra.kenter@uni-bielefeld.de by January 8th, 2020. Please mark your application with the identification code: wiss19299. To apply, please provide the usual documents (CV including information about your academic education and degrees, professional experience, publications, conference contributions, and further relevant skills and abilities). The application can be written in German or English.

Further information on Bielefeld University can be found on our homepage at www.uni-bielefeld.de. Please note that the possibility of privacy breaches and unauthorized access by third parties cannot be excluded when communicating via unencrypted e-mail. Information on the processing of personal data is available https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/2019_DS-Hinweise_englisch.pdf.

Postal Address

Bielefeld University, Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner, P.O. Box: 10 01 31, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany

Contact

Alexandra Kenter

0521 106-3662

alexandra.kenter@uni-bielefeld.de


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