Postdoctoral position: Phylodynamics of Language Evolution 694 views

The Transmission, Infection, Diversification & Evolution Group (tide) led by Denise Kühnert is offering a Postdoctoral position for its project: The “phylodynamics” of language evolution.

About the project:
  • The initial aim of this interdisciplinary project is to develop, test and employ mathematical concepts to describe the tree-generating processes appropriate for language evolution.
  • They will be based on birth-death processes, which are suitable to model language evolution as they can incorporate periods of constant growth or decline, stagnation, but also bursts and extinction events.
  • This project will be performed in close collaboration with the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution, led by Professor Dr. Russell Gray.

Role and responsibilities:

  • Development of birth-death process based methods for the reconstruction of language phylogenies in a Bayesian framework.
  • Analysis of language families, such as the Austronesian and Austroasiatic language families, to test hypotheses about their origins and historic development.
  • Test dependence of language diversification on demographic dynamics and potential links to ancient infectious disease outbreaks.

Qualifications:

  • Applicant must have obtained or are about to obtain a PhD degree in Linguistics or a quantitative discipline such as Computational Biology, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics.
  • Interest in language evolution
  • Experience with phylogenetic methods
  • Experience in programming
  • Proficient English skills

Application:

Apply online and upload the following:

  • Cover letter (explaining research experience and reason for interest in this project)
  • CV
  • List of publications
  • Copies of certificates
  • Names and contact information (email and phone) for up to three referees.
—————–Quick Overview————-
Organization Max Planck Institute
Country Germany
Fellowship Level Postdoctoral
Subject areas

Linguistics, Computational Biology, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics

Fellowship amount Varies
Eligibility Open to all nationalities
Deadline Varies
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