- JOB
- Spain
Job Information
- Organisation/Company
- Universitat pompeu fabra
- Department
- Department of Translation and Language Sciences
- Research Field
- Computer science » Modelling toolsLanguage sciences » Linguistics
- Researcher Profile
- Recognised Researcher (R2)
- Country
- Spain
- Application Deadline
- Type of Contract
- Temporary
- Job Status
- Full-time
- Hours Per Week
- 37,5
- Offer Starting Date
- Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme?
- HE
- Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?
- No
Offer Description
We are looking for a leading postdoctoral researcher within the new EU grant HEu-CL1-TRUSTING-101080251 – “A TRUSTworthy speech-based AI monitorING system for the prediction of relapse in psychosis patients”, Horizon Europe, funded by the European Research Council. The project’s aim is to predict relapse in psychosis through an AI-based speech monitoring system. As a successful candidate you will be placed presentially at the Barcelona end of this project but become part of a highly integrated international research network comprising leading experts at three additional European sites: Groningen, Zürich, and Tromsoe. In Barcelona you will join the Grammar & Cognition (GraC) lab (www.upf.edu/web/grac, PI: Wolfram Hinzen), whose mission is to study altered language patterns in mental disorders. The main language of the lab and the project is English.
Successful candidates must be highly motivated to apply methods from natural language processing and AI to solve clinical problems in psychiatry, and articulate this motivation in the application letter. You will play a leading role in a team seeking to develop and validate speech- and text-based models of psychosis, and to assess their clinical potential in predicting relapse. The generalizability of results across datasets from different languages will be a crucial aim. You will work in a collaborative, multi-disciplinary environment and have the opportunity to draw from the substantial resources of the network. Our local cross-disciplinary infrastructure at Barcelona comprises leading computational and theoretical linguistic groups, the UPF’s Center of Brain & Cognition (CBC), and the Brain Dynamics and Structure of Human Cognition (BraCo) group (shared with the Universitat de Barcelona at Bellvitge).
The appointee should be an experienced researcher with at least 4 years of relevant research experience. You will:
- Be a lead researcher in a work package dedicated to the crosslinguistic validation of language-based biomarkers in psychosis.
- Creatively develop and test tools in modelling deviations in speech and language computationally.
- Collaborate closely with research and clinical teams at other project sites.
- Be the lead author on high-level publications.
Please direct all prior inquiries to the PI at wolfram.hinzen@upf.edu.
Where to apply
- professorat.dtcl@upf.edu
Requirements
- Research Field
- Language sciences » Linguistics
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Research Field
- Computer science » Modelling tools
- Education Level
- PhD or equivalent
- Ph.D. in linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, computer science, artificial intelligence, or another related field.
- Experience in the use of large language models and NLP analyses of spontaneous speech.
- First-authored publications commensurate with research experience.
- Experience in clinical linguistics or psychiatry is desirable but not necessary.
- Experience in the use of large language models.
- Capacity to program in Python, Matlab, etc.
- Statistical analysis skills.
- Know-how in natural language processing (NLP) toolkits.
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Mother Tongue
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Level
- Excellent
- Research Field
- Language sciences » LinguisticsComputer science » Modelling tools
- Years of Research Experience
- 4 - 10
Additional Information
- Website for additional job details
Work Location(s)
- Number of offers available
- 1
- Company/Institute
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Country
- Spain
- State/Province
- Barcelona
- City
- Barcelona
- Postal Code
- 08018
- Street
- Roc Boronat 138
- Geofield
Contact
- City
- Barcelona
- Website
- Street
- carrer Roc Boronat, 138, 08018 Barcelona
- Postal Code
- 08018