"Postdoctoral Fellowship in Neurolinguistics"

A cover letter explaining qualifications for the position, a CV, research statement, and one or more (up to three) representative publications, manuscripts, or dissertation chapters should be included as part of your application. Materials should include a clear statement of skills related to the project and should address the applicant’s commitment to mentorship. Please also arrange to have three letters of recommendation submitted with the application materials. If the letters need to be sent separately, have the recommenders send the letters to lingsearch@umich.edu. When submitting application materials, convert all materials into one pdf document to submit through the UM job portal.

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in neurolinguistics, computational modeling, and bilingualism at the Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan. The successful candidate will work under the supervision of Professor Jonathan Brennan. The position will involve working with electroencephalography (EEG) data from bilingual speakers of English, Mandarin, and Spanish and developing/testing computational models of second-language processing. The work is part of an NSF-funded project Predictive processing in naturalistic language comprehension through EEG and computational modeling,which is a collaboration between Dr. Brennan, and Dr. Edith Kaan at the University of Florida. The project description is available at: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2518249.

The researcher will join the Computational Neurolinguistics Lab and will be expected to be an active participant in lab activities. This will include supervision and collaboration with graduate and undergraduate researchers. The successful applicant will be encouraged to work on their own research projects and to interact with the wider research community at the University of Michigan along with collaborators at the University of Florida. Applicants are not expected to teach but opportunities will be available to take part in the educational mission of the University. 

Applicants should have advanced experience in some combination of electrophysiological signal analysis, computational linguistics, and theories and methods in psycholinguistics and bilingualism.  Applicants should have strong familiarity with data analysis in Python and/or R. 

Familiarity with Spanish and/or Mandarin will be an added benefit (but is not a requirement).

For additional information regarding the University of Michigan Department of Linguistics, please go to https://lsa.umich.edu/linguistics.

Jonathan Brennan (jobrenn@umich.edu)