Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Social Psychology University of Bern in Switzerland

David Levari at Brown University is recruiting a new PhD student to join his lab this cycle. The post is from an Assistant Professor and lab owner, so this is a direct opening rather than a repost. The opportunity is in Psychology , with related interests in Cognitive Science and lab-based research. Deadline: Applications are due November 15, 2026 . How to apply: Visit the lab website for more information and submit your application by the deadline. Funding: No funding details are stated in the ...

PhD position in Multisensory Development at the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research , University of Bern, within the Multimodal and Multisensory Development Lab . This doctoral project is part of the SNSF Starting Grant project PREDICT (“Neural and Behavioral Mechanisms of Cognitive Development Across Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence: From Sleep to Multisensory Integration”). The successful candidate will develop and implement a multisensory experiment for a cross-sectional stud...

Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP and Human-Centered AI at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland . This postdoctoral opening is part of CREST-AI and focuses on Natural Language Processing , Human-Centered AI , LLM reasoning , neuro-symbolic NLP , user modeling , and interpretable models of users’ beliefs, uncertainty, and misconceptions from dialogue. The successful candidate will conduct research with Prof. Christina Niklaus , coordinate selected research activities, develop human-centered e...

Postdoctoral Researcher in Cross-Cultural Psycho-/Neurolinguistics at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution (ISLE), University of Zurich, within the NCCR Evolving Language. The project focuses on cross-cultural research on language processing and its relationship to cognition, with a specific emphasis on syntax and event cognition. The postdoc will work with a team from the NCCR Work Package “Events” under the supervision of Professor Balthasar Bickel. Research meth...

Postdoctoral Researcher position in Conversational AI and LLMs at the University of St.Gallen (School of Computer Science), Switzerland, within the SNSF-funded CREST-AI project. The project focuses on natural language processing , large language models , dialogue systems , natural language generation , and reinforcement learning . The successful candidate will help develop grounded, adaptive conversational systems that tailor explanations to users’ understanding, with legal language as a testbed...