Job Title: PhD Student Researcher in Natural Language Processing

Institution: Technical University of Munich (TUM)

Location: Heilbronn, Germany

Salary: TVL E-13

Contract: 100%, three years

Start Date: July 1st, 2025


Responsibilities:

Conduct research in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Develop and apply new NLP techniques to solve real-world problems

Publish high-quality research papers in top-tier journals and conferences

Supervise Bachelors and Masters students

Assist teaching Bachelors and Masters courses in Machine Learning
and/or Natural Language Processing


Qualifications:

Masters in NLP, Computer Science or a related field

Projects in NLP or machine learning

Excellent programming skills in Python and other relevant programming
languages

Strong communication and presentation skills in English (German is not
necessary, but would be a plus; other languages are also of strong
interest, please be sure to list all languages in your materials!)


Benefits:

Competitive salary and benefits package

Opportunity to work with leading researchers in the field of NLP

Access to state-of-the-art research facilities

Opportunity to publish your research in top-tier journals and conferences


About the School:

The School of Computation, Information and Technology at the Technical
University of Munich (TUM) is one of the leading research institutions
in the fields of Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

The Fraser NLP lab at TUM is seeking a highly motivated and talented
phd student / researcher to join our team. We are located at the new
multi-university campus (the Bildungscampus, where the ETH Zurich
center will also be located in the near future). This is in Heilbronn,
in a beautiful wine region on the Neckar river, near Stuttgart.

The research interests of the lab include all areas of NLP, with a
particular focus on multilingual language models and machine
translation. These positions will be supported by MCML and/or Fraser's
ERC Advanced Grant EPICAL.

To Apply:

We are using the MCML call for PhD students in 2026, please follow
their instructions and select Prof Fraser as your preferred advisor.

https://www.portal.graduatecenter.lmu.de/ocgc/mcml

Deadline:

14 November 2025 23:59 CET (but apply ideally earlier)

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Prof. Dr. Alexander Fraser
Chair for Data Analytics & Statistics
Technical University of Munich
School of Computation, Information and Technology
Heilbronn Campus

Web: http://alexfraser.github.io