PhD opportunities in linguistics in Finland

The University of Helsinki’s Language Technology research unit is recruiting a fully funded PhD student in NLP to study the role of pretraining data in cross-lingual transfer for factual tasks . The project is hosted in Finland and involves collaboration with the Helsinki-NLP team on the FLaM project . Research themes include multilingual language models, factuality, transfer across languages, and data-centric analysis of large language models. Supervision is by Jörg Tiedemann and Timothee Micku...

Aalto University is recruiting a Doctoral Researcher in Speech and Language Technology at the Department of Information and Communications Engineering (DICE), Finland. The project, COWAMA: Content-based watermarking for AI-generated audio , is led by Assistant Professor Lauri Juvela and focuses on speech and audio processing , deepfake detection , audio watermarking , source tracing , and trustworthy generative AI . The research aims to detect the origin and authenticity of AI-generated speech a...

Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy at the University of Jyväskylä , Finland, in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Social Sciences and Philosophy. The position is part of a multidisciplinary academic environment with internationally recognized research and teaching in the humanities and social sciences. The research profile highlighted in the posting includes philosophy, cultural history, communication, languages, and broader social-scientific inquiry, with the fa...

PhD opening at the University of Helsinki (Helsinki-NLP, FLaM project) on crosslingual fact transfer in multilingual large language models. The project asks whether multilingual LLMs can transfer facts learned in one language to generate correct text in another. This is a strong fit for students interested in computational linguistics , natural language processing , machine learning , and multilingual AI. Eligibility: applicants should have a Master's degree in computational linguistics, NLP, ML...

PhD opening in crosslingual fact transfer at the University of Helsinki , within HelsinkiNLP . The project focuses on factuality and multilinguality , making it a strong fit for students interested in computational linguistics , natural language processing , and language understanding across languages. The position is advertised as a 3-year fully funded PhD . The post does not list detailed eligibility criteria, but the research theme suggests a background or strong interest in NLP, multilingual...

Doctoral researcher in social sciences at LUT University in Lappeenranta, Finland . This is a fully funded, four-year PhD opening in the Department of Social Sciences, linked to the GREENSHUFFLE project funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project examines the politics of the green transition , especially how unequal occupational recognition may shape political divisions in attitudes toward sustainability transitions. The research is mixed-methods and includes conducting and analysing ...