Postdoc Opportunities in Natural Language Processing in Germany

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at TU Darmstadt, Germany in NLP , Large Language Models (LLMs) , and AI for Cybersecurity . The position is titled “Postdoctoral Researcher – Expert Judgment in LLMs, with a Focus on Cybersecurity” and runs for 12 months from January to December 2027 . The research themes highlighted in the post include natural language processing, large language models, learning from limited expert input, and developing AI systems that produce useful outputs for domain expert...

Postdoc opening in Climate Adaptation using Computational Social Science methods at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany . The project asks a timely question: how can we tell whether cities are actually implementing the climate adaptation measures they promise? The research will combine NLP , machine learning , and data mining to analyse urban climate adaptation plans, monitoring reports, and public procurement records, with the aim of tracking adaptation pro...

📢 Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at TU Darmstadt in the NLP for Expert Domains (ExpNLP) group. The position focuses on Natural Language Processing , Large Language Models , and Cybersecurity , with a research theme centered on expert judgment in LLMs : how LLM-based systems can produce outputs that domain experts actually find valuable, even when experts disagree on what “valuable” means. Core application areas include vulnerability severity , AI agents in security investigations , and huma...

Postdoctoral Researcher opening in Natural Language Processing , human behavioral evaluation , and long-range language understanding at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) in Saarbrücken, Germany . The position is part of the newly funded ERC Starting Grant project BrainAlign , led by Dr. Mariya Toneva and the Bridging AI and Neuroscience (BrAIN) group . The project aims to develop language models whose internal processing is aligned with the human brain, combining machine le...

Postdoctoral Researcher in NeuroAI at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems in Saarbrücken, Germany . The Bridging AI and Neuroscience (BrAIN) group, led by Mariya Toneva , is recruiting for the newly funded ERC Starting Grant project BrainAlign . The project sits at the intersection of machine learning , natural language processing , computational neuroscience , neuroimaging , and cognitive neuroscience . Research focus: developing methods to integrate heterogeneous fMRI datasets and tr...