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The successful candidate will work closely with the Communications Department, the Diversity Team and the Technical Group at the MPI. In general, the aim of this position is to help the Multimodal Language Department with its research with diverse populations and researchers (see below) and help its outreach in terms of workshops, conferences, summer schools and public events. The candidate will help enable Department’s visibility through websites and social media within the MPI as well as in its collaborations outside of the MPI.
Job description
Tasks in close cooperation with the Communications Team
Essential
Our preferred candidate would meet the following requirements:
Desirable
Fixed-term contract: 1 year with extension possibility.
What we offer you
The Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics is a world-leading research institute devoted to interdisciplinary studies of the science of language and communication, including departments on genetics, psychology, development, neurobiology and multimodality of these fundamental human abilities. We investigate how children and adults acquire their language(s), how speaking and listening happen in real time, how the brain processes language, how the human genome contributes to building a language-ready brain, how multiple modalities (as in speech, gesture and sign) shape language and its use in diverse languages and how language is related to cognition and culture, and shaped by evolution. We are part of the Max Planck Society, an independent non-governmental association of German-funded research institutes dedicated to fundamental research in the natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. The Max Planck Society is an equal opportunities employer. We recognize the positive value of diversity and inclusion, promote equity and challenge discrimination. We aim to provide a working environment with room for differences, where everyone feels a sense of belonging. Therefore, we welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates. Our institute is situated on the campus of the Radboud University and has close collaborative links with the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and the Centre for Language Studies at Radboud University. We also work closely with other child development researchers as part of the Baby & Child Research Center. Staff and students at the MPI have access to state-of-the art research and training facilities.
The Multimodal Language Department in particular aims to understand the cognitive and social foundations of the human ability for language and its evolution by focusing on its multimodal and crosslinguistic diversity. The research at the department combines multiple methods including corpus and computational linguistics, psycho- and neuro-linguistics, machine learning, AI and virtual reality, and is concerned with various populations ranging from speakers of signed and spoken languages, young and older subjects from typical and atypical populations. The department provides opportunities for training and research in a range of linguistic, conversational state of the art multimodal language research and analysis (such as VR, AI, motion capture and automatic kinematic and speech recognition), as well as neuropsychological, psychological methods related to multimodal language with support from an excellent team of international and diverse researchers (international, deaf and hearing) in linguistics and psycholinguistics.
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