Team
Join the team!
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 2025, 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 (December 2024 or January 2025, depending on the course).
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.
Current people
Research students:
Hannah Claus responsible and inclusive NLP, cultural adaptation of NLP
Panagiotis Fytas multimodal AI for clinical applications
Songbo Hu conversational AI and real-world applications
Sharan Maiya, NLP for climate and environmental risk
Lucas Resck explainable and interpretable NLP
Shun Shao fairness in multilingual NLP
Han Zhou efficient and green AI
Yijie Zhou multilingual NLP
Associated ELLIS PhD students:
Beiduo Chen (LMU Munich) on learning universal multilingual representations
Abdullatif Köksal (LMU Munich) few-shot learning with pretrained language models
Cecilia Liu (TU Darmstadt) multimodal learning, cultural adaptation of NLP
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
Researchers and research fellows:
Simon Baker information extraction, biomedical NLP
Anna Barford, sociology of AI
Charlotte Collins linguistic annotation for NLP
Giulia Occhini, computational social science
Ulla Petti detection of dementia in speech and language, ethics of NLP and AI
Ivan Vulić representation learning, multilingual and multimodal NLP, conversational AI and applications
Associated researchers:
Alumni
PhD / Research students:
Marinela Parovic
Yi Zhu