Research students - We currently welcome applications from outstanding candidates for our PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language and PhD in Human-Inspired Artifiical Intelligence. If you are interested in applying for October 2026, please take a look at my research interests and ongoing projects, and check that you meet the minimum entry requirements before contacting me. If you need funding, please contact me well in time before the funding deadlines (early December 2025).
Postdoctoral researchers - When project positions become available we advertise them on the LTL website and more widely. We also host externally-funded research fellows - please get in touch if you are interested in this opportunity and have a suitable fellowship in mind.
Hannah Claus inclusive NLP and applications
Kajetan Dymkiewicz model compression and behaviour
Panagiotis Fytas multimodal AI for clinical applications
Sharan Maiya NLP for climate and environmental risk
Benjamin Minixhofer tokenization in NLP
Lj Miranda multilingual NLP
Chengzu Li multimodal reasoning in AI
Lucas Resck explainable NLP
Shun Shao fairness in multilingual NLP
Hannah Sterz parameter efficient transfer learning
Han Zhou efficient and green AI
Yijie (Ej) Zhou interpretable NLP
Beiduo Chen (LMU Munich) on learning universal multilingual representations
Abdullatif Köksal (LMU Munich) few-shot learning with pretrained language models
Felicia Felicia Körner (LMU Munich) multilingual language modeling
Indraneil Paul (TU Darmstadt) modular language and domain adaptation of language models
Sue Shuyuan Shen (University of Ausburg) social robotics, embodied conversational agents
Yifu Qiu (University of Edinburgh) cross-lingual document summarization
Simon Baker information extraction, biomedical NLP
Anna Barford sociology of AI
Charlotte Collins AI for science
Omer Goldman low resource language AI
Songbo Hu conversational AI and real-world applications
Chen Cecilia Liu culturally aware and adapted NLP
Giulia Occhini computational social science
Ulla Petti detection of dementia in language, ethics of NLP and AI
Ivan Vulić multilingual and multimodal NLP
Associated researchers:
Marinela Parovic
Yi Zhu