PhD researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

The Junior Professor for Human Language Technologies (Harry Scells) at the University of Tübingen invites applications for a position at the Institute for Applied Medical Informatics as a

PhD researcher (f/m/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

available immediately to join their international and dynamic team of researchers investigating problems in information retrieval (IR) and natural language processing (NLP) and their applications to health and medicine. The successful candidate will contribute to the institute’s research focus on information retrieval (IR).

Responsibilities:

• Developing neural retrieval and ranking models to support the effective retrieval of scientific literature from large-scale scientific article repositories like PubMed.
• Advancing research in retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to support the qualitative and quantitative synthesis of scientific evidence.
• Investigating new ways to robustly and reliably evaluate domain-specific IR and RAG approaches to ensure that methods align with user expectations and preferences.
• Collaborating with colleagues and international peers on research projects related to those listed above.
• Publishing high-quality papers and presenting the results at leading IR and NLP conference venues.

Qualifications:

• A completed M.Sc. degree in computer science, machine learning, and related fields.
• Strong proficiency in English (the working language of the institute).
• Capability and willingness to work independently and collaboratively.

Preferred qualifications:

• Good technical understanding of transformer language models.
• Good understanding of IR fundamentals.
• Good experience using machine learning libraries like PyTorch.

The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunity, diversity and inclusion. They particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in science. Severely handicapped persons with equal qualifications are given preferential consideration.

Please send your application in one PDF (cover letter, CV, transcripts, diplomas, overview of your skills and techniques) to harrisen.scells@uni-tuebingen.de. In your cover letter, please describe your research interests and reasons for applying.