Job Description

Identifier

# of positions

Scope

Salary

Starting date

Application deadline



252532

1

75 %

EG 13 TV-L

01.01.2026

2025-10-31



In general full-time positions are divisible.

Professional contact:

Prof. Dr. Nils Langer and Dr. Leona Polyanskaya

nils.langer(at)uni-flensburg.de leona.polyanskaya(at)uni- flensburg.de

Administratrive contact:

Inken Alsen

bewerbung(at)uni-flensburg.de

We offer:

An appreciative and collegial working environment Secure salary based on collective agreement Flexible working hours, including mobile work option Company pension plan Options to balance work/family life ·Professional training opportunities Free language courses at EUF Reduced rates at the university sports center Reduced fares for local public transport (Job Ticket)

The Institute of Minority Research and the Interdisciplinary Centre for European Studies at the Europa-Universität Flensburg seek to appoint a



Post-Doctoral Researcher



from Jan 1st, 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter, for the period of two years, as a 75% FTE.



The appointment is in connection with a research project on “[t]he neuro-cognitive and behavioral interplay between linguistic awareness, metacognitive efficiency, and decision-making strategies: evidence from bilingual and linguistic minority communities”, funded by the Volkswagen foundation.



The project will contribute to an explanation of why people in different communities make different decisions even if they have the same information. It aims to reveal social engineering “tricks” of how social attitudes and behaviours can be orchestrated in pre- planned directions via language manipulation. The project seeks to develop strategies to make individual decisions resilient to such manipulations by engaging general mechanisms of metacognition and metalinguistic awareness.



You will be joining a team of four researchers with specialisms in different fields of linguistics and contribute, in particular, to experimental aspects of the project.

Duties:

the preparation of experiments and protocols studying decision-making and metalinguistic awareness, to be conducted at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) the preparation of experimental materials studying grammaticality and acceptability judgments in Spanish and English, as well as German where possible supporting the design and carrying out of experiments eliciting grammaticality and acceptability judgments in non-European languages (including Quechua/Aymara; Mandarin; Arabic) supporting the data collection in other, including non-European, countries data analysis, programming experimental tasks, data management contribute to the publications of the project

Your profile:

A Master´s degree in Cognitive Sciences, Linguistics or a related discipline A doctorate in Cognitive Sciences or a related discipline Experience with scripting in R, MatLab, or Python or the credible skillset to ac- quire knowledge of these quickly or Experience with laboratory work and data collection Excellent knowledge of Spanish and English Evidence of successful participation in team work

We offer:

the active participation in an innovative and interdisciplinary research project the opportunity to actively advance your research and publication profile the opportunity to work in a very international environment and contribute to our understanding of aspects of cognition with high societal relevance

Your application:

Your application should include a covering letter of 1-2 pages, a detailed CV of your academic achievements with a complete list of your publications, copies of your certificates and qualifications, and the contact details of two academic referees who may comment on your professional experience.



To learn more about the research project, check this website



https://www.uni-



flensburg.de/friesisch/forschung/aktuelle-projekte



or contact Prof. Langer per email. The deadline for applications is October 31st, 2025 Interviews will be held in Flensburg in early December 2025.



Europa-Universität Flensburg seeks to promote employee diversity with respect to the trajectories and competencies of its staff. We explicitly welcome applications from persons with a migration background. Severely disabled applicants with adequate qualifications will be given preference. The university also strives to obtain a balanced gender ratio in all occupational groups.



EUF expressly renounces the use of CV photographs and kindly asks applicants to refrain from providing one.



We look forward to receiving your application via our online application portal