34.504, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral researcher in data analysis and statistical modelling, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

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Subject: 34.504, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral researcher in data analysis and statistical modelling, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics

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Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2023 20:42:54
From: Angela Heuts [Angela.Heuts at mpi.nl]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics: Postdoctoral researcher in data analysis and statistical modelling, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands

University or Organization: Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics 
Department: Language Development
Job Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Web Address: https://www.mpi.nl/career-education/vacancies/vacancy/postdoctoral-researcher-data-analysis-and-statistical-modelling
Job Title: Postdoctoral researcher in data analysis and statistical modelling
Job Rank: Post Doc; Researcher

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Computational Linguistics; General Linguistics; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics 

Description:

We are offering a 5-year position for a postdoctoral researcher here at the
Language Development Department at the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands. Start date is negotiable but we
anticipate the researcher will be in place by October 2023 at the latest.

The successful candidate will divide their time between acting as a design and
statistics consultant to the department’s research projects (2 days per week),
and as a project leader on one of the department’s new projects: Mechanisms of
individual differences in language development (3 days per week):

 - Consultancy: The consultancy role will involve creating statistical tools
suitable for use in the department’s research, training researcher to use such
tools, and advising on particular projects. For more information about the
department’s research, click here.

 - Project: Mechanisms of individual differences in first language
development: There are large individual differences in the speed with which
children acquire language in the first 5 years of life. A popular approach is
to attribute this variance to differences in the quality and quantity of the
child's interactions and input; for example, to the amount of child directed
speech or the number of conversational turns that adults and children use in
interaction. However, even the strongest findings report only small to
moderate effect sizes of language input, so other factors must be at play. The
successful candidate will undertake research to discover the underlying
mechanisms that explain individual variation in young children’s language
acquisition. The Language05 Project dataset will be available for use in this
project, although the researcher can choose to work on different data of
children’s first language if they wish. 

Requirements: 

Essential: 
 - A PhD in computer science, cognitive science, psychology, linguistics,
cognitive neuroscience, or a related discipline.
 - Expertise in advanced statistical modelling of human behaviour using R.
 - A track record of research on language development, including experience
disseminating research through conference presentations and publications.
 - Experience managing confidential information provided by participants,
dealing with ethical and administrative issues, and efficiently managing and
cataloguing data.
 - Experience supervising and/or teaching undergraduate or postgraduate
students.
 - Excellent written and spoken English. The language of the institute is
English, so knowledge of Dutch is not required.

Desirable: 
 - Expertise in at least one other statistical package and/or programming
language used to model behaviour.
 - Expertise in computational modelling of human behaviour.
 - Experience working with longitudinal datasets.
 - An explicit interest in, and commitment to, Open Science.

Please apply via the link below.

Application Deadline: 15-Mar-2023 

Web Address for Applications: https://recruitingapp-5569.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/366/Application/New/2 
Contact Information:
	Caroline Rowland 
	Email: Caroline.Rowland at mpi.nl 

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