Job opportunity, University of Hamburg

["Jürgen M. Meisel"]

University of Hamburg

Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism
Max Brauer-Allee 60  D-22765 Hamburg
sfb538 at uni-hamburg.de

Job opportunities as of April 1st, 2001

1 post-doctoral researcher (full position)
or
2 post-graduate researchers (half positions)

in a research project on "Simultaneous and Successive Acquisition of 
Bilingualism" (Principal investigator: J. M. Meisel). This project 
investigates similarities and differences in grammatical development 
between bilingual first language acquisition, monolingual first language 
acquisition, and adult second language acquisition. It is one of 13 
projects of the Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism funded by 
the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, German Research Foundation) 
established at the University of Hamburg in 1999.

All positions begin April 1st 2001 and will extend until at least June 30, 
2002, the end of the current funding period. They can be further extended 
for a total of five years, in accordance with § 57b Hochschulrahmengesetz. 
The salary of the post-doctoral researcher corresponds to that of a 
lecturer in German universities (BAT IIa); the weekly work load amounts to 
38 hours. The post-graduate researchers must hold an M.A. (or equivalent). 
He or she will receive approximately half of the BAT IIa salary for a work 
load of 19,5 hours per week and will be expected to complete a doctoral 
dissertation on a topic related to the theme of the research project. The 
post-doctoral candidate will be expected to co-direct this research group 
together with J.M. Meisel. Research results obtained during the work on 
this projects may be included in the dissertation.

Requirements are: good knowledge of syntactic theory (Principles and 
Parameters Theory and/or the Minimalist Program), experience with language 
acquisition research, and good knowledge of at least two of the following 
languages: German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Basque. Also desirable 
would be experience with corpus analysis and/or computer skills.

The University of Hamburg wishes to increase the number of women among 
their academic staff and therefore encourages women to apply. In accordance 
with Hamburg law (Gleichstellungsgesetz), female candidates will be given 
priority in case of equal qualifications with male applicants.

Handicapped applicants will be given priority over other candidates, in 
case of equal qualifications.

Send application (including CV, list of publications, names of two 
referees) by February 24th, 2001 to Prof. J. M. Meisel at the above 
address; for further inquiries contact J.M. Meisel at jmm at uni-hamburg.de or 
visit our homepage at http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/SFB538/



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