(part-time 50 %, E 13 TV-L)

Reference no.: 2025/180.
The start date is 20th October 2025 or soon thereafter and is available for three years initially.
The Multilingualism Group at the University of Konstanz headed by Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis is recruiting a PhD candidate to work within his team and conduct research on morpho-syntactic processing in multilingual children with typical language development, children with DLD or autistic children. The Multilingualism Group is part of the Linguistics Department that combines theoretical with experimental linguistics and offers a lively and internationally well-connected research environment, where students are integrated in scholarly life and research at all levels. The department’s research infrastructure includes the Psycholinguistics Lab, the Neurolinguistics Lab, the Baby Speech Lab, the MuSe Lab, the Phonlab, the Computational Linguistics Lab, and the Centre for Multilingualism that conducts, disseminates, and communicates research on multilingualism to academic and non-academic audiences. The doctoral researcher will join the doctoral programme of the Linguistics Department and will be supervised by Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis.

Your responsibilities

• Conducting research on language development in multilingual children with focus on morpho-syntactic processing
• Working towards a PhD
• Teaching on our BA/MA programmes (1 course each semester)
• Supervising student theses at the BA, BEd level
• Contributing to national and international research projects. Contributing to administrative duties within Multilingualism team
• Presenting research at national and international conferences
• Contributing to transfer activities at the Centre for Multilingualism

Your profile

• Excellent MA/MSc degree in Bilingualism/Multilingualism/Linguistics/Speech & Language Therapy, or related discipline
• Research interest in morpho-syntactic processing
• Some experience working with primary school children
• Very good proficiency in English and ideally also German
• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills
• Knowledge of statistics and previous teaching or tutoring experience is desirable
• Experience with reaction time experiments, eye-tracking or ERP experiments is desirable

We offer

• The opportunity to do a PhD within the international and research-intensive Multilingualism Group
• The opportunity to be part of a friendly, lively linguistics department with a broad range of research specialisms, an international profile, and a strong record of third-party funding
• Salary according to the pay-scale for University employees (TV-L 13)
• Career development opportunities and support
• Training in Science Communication

Questions can be directed to Prof. Dr. Theodoros Marinis via e-mail:
t.marinis@uni-konstanz.de
. We look forward to receiving your application by 15.09.2025 via our
Online Application Portal
. Applications should contain: i) a short motivation letter, ii) an academic CV, iii) copies of all previous degrees, including detailed transcripts of records, iv) the names and email addresses of two academic referees (one from the supervisor of the BA/MA/MSc thesis or equivalent), v) optional: a research proposal for the dissertation project in the relevant areas including a time schedule (maximum five A4 pages).
The University of Konstanz is committed to ensuring an environment that provides equal opportunities and promotes diversity, as well as a good balance between university and family life. As an equal opportunity employer, we strive to increase the number of women working in research and teaching. We also support working couples through our
dual career programme
. Persons with disabilities are explicitly encouraged to apply. They will be given preference if appropriately qualified (contact sbv@uni-konstanz.de
, + 49 7531 88-4016)

• Conducting research on language development in multilingual children with focus on morpho-syntactic processing
• Working towards a PhD
• Teaching on our BA/MA programmes (1 course each semester)
• Supervising student theses at the BA, BEd level
• Contributing to national and international research projects. Contributing to administrative duties within Multilingualism team
• Presenting research at national and international conferences
• Contributing to transfer activities at the Centre for Multilingualis