In the Department of Virology at Heidelberg University a postdoctoral position (TVL-13) will be available in the laboratory of Oliver T. Keppler. Our team is interested in several exciting research questions ranging from understanding fundamental principles of virus-host interaction to the development of an HIV-susceptible small animal model

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Researcher/Postdoc Experimental Linguistics/Computational Linguistics/Phonetics Applications are invited for a two-year researcher/postdoc at the Department of Scandinavian Studies/ Information Science, Faculty of Arts, Center for Language and Cognition Groningen. The successful applicant will join the projects ‘Linguistic determinants of mutual intelligibility in Scandinavia’ and/or ‘Mutual intelligibility of language varieties in the Low Countries: linguistic and attitudinal determinants’ which are both funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). The aim of the projects is to refine newly developed computational methods in order to quantify communicatively relevant similarity between closely related languages and language varieties. The similarity measurements will be used to develop a model for predicting and explaining mutual intelligibility. The candidate will cooperate closely with a PhD-student and a senior researcher.

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Post-doctoral position is available in the interdisciplinary Max Planck Research Group on Comparative Population Linguistics at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The successful applicant will be expected to work on language contact in the Kalahari Basin with a particular focus on the underdocumented language ǂHoan; this will potentially involve close collaboration with a molecular anthropological project dealing with ‘Khoisan’ peoples. The project is planned as part of a broader collaborative interdisciplinary project on the ‘Kalahari Basin Area: A ‘Sprachbund’ on the verge of extinction’, for which a funding application is still pending; however, the ǂHoan contact project will be pursued regardless of the outcome of that application.

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