Seven postdoctoral positions in the Dutch research consortium "Language in Interaction"

The Dutch research consortium "Language in Interaction" is looking for highly motivated postdoctoral researchers to enrich a unique consortium of researchers that aims to unravel the neurocognitive mechanisms of language at multiple levels. The goal is to understand both the universality and the variability of the human language faculty from genes to behaviour.

The research consortium, sponsored by a large grant from the Netherlands Organization for Scientific research (NWO), brings together many of the excellent research groups in the Netherlands (including the ILLC) with a research programme on the foundations of language. Together, this consortium realizes both quality and critical mass for studying human language at a scale not easily found anywhere else in the world.

The Principal Investigators of the research consortium are distributed over seven so-called Work Packages (WPs). Each of the 7 WPs hereby advertised one postdoctoral position. This postdoctoral position will be for three years in the first instance, with a possible extension for two more years.  The appointment will be in one of the home institutions of the consortium (one of which is the ILLC). Duties will include coordination of Work Package activities and development of an independent research programme within the framework of the WP, and may include supervision of PhD students.

Each WP postdoctoral position has its own requirements and profile. Starting date preferably September 2013. The deadline for applications: May 15, 2013. For more information, see http://www.illc.uva.nl/NewsandEvents/language_in_interaction.html or http://www.ru.nl/donders/collaborations/projects/zwaartekracht/.