Open PhD /postdoc positions

4- year fully-funded PhD position on the topic of computational modelling of lexical innovation 

The Computation, Cognition and Language group at Idiap in Martigny (Switzerland) invites applications for a 4-year PhD position that aims to investigate how new terms emerge and how they spread in different contexts, thereby comparing Western societies with hunter-gatherer societies. 

RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT: 

The position will be part of the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) Evolving Language www.evolvinglanguage.ch, a Swiss consortium with the ambitious goal of creating a new discipline, Evolutionary Language Science, that targets the past and future of language. The consortium consists of leading scientists from traditionally separated academic domains, which allows us to harvest the diverse expertise from the humanities, social sciences, computational sciences, natural sciences and medicine towards a broadscale interdisciplinary collaboration. Within this framework we offer a position in an interdisciplinary team of computational linguists and evolutionary anthropologists from the Idiap research institute and the University of Zurich (UZH). The candidate can be registered at the UZH or the EPFL pending admission to a doctoral school.

The expected start date is between 1 June and 1 Sep 2024. 

For more information, https://www.idiap.ch/en/join-us/job-opportunities

Post-doc position multi-modal fact-checking

6-month post-doc position on multi-modal fact-checking.  Contact me for more information.

Valais-Wallis Ambition scholarship

If you are from Valais (having completed your primary and secondary schools in Valais), and subsequently followed EPFL-equivalent studies, you can apply for a Valais-Wallis Ambition initiative for PhDs and Postdocs. Appointments as a PhD student are typically for 4 years, conditional to successful progress, and should lead to a PhD dissertation, granted by the “Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), while conducting your research at Idiap in Martigny. Postdoc appointments are typically for one year, with possibilities of renewal for a maximum of 4 years, conditional to performance. Contact me for more information.

If you are a postdoc candidate from Switzerland or abroad with an excellent track record and would like to conduct research on NLP at Idiap, contact me to discuss opportunities.