The Natural Language Processing Section at the Department of Computer Science at University of Copenhagen is advertising a 36 month position for a Ph.D Fellow in Natural Language Processing. The position is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation grant held by the principal investigator, Desmond Elliott. The overall goal of the project is to develop a new family of language models that can process any written language by rendering text as images, which allows the models to learn from the visual similarities between written languages, facilitating effective transfer to lower-resource or unseen languages.
The Natural Language Processing Section provides a strong, international and diverse environment for research within core as well as emerging topics in natural language processing, natural language understanding, computational linguistics and multi-modal language processing. It is housed within the main Science Campus, which is centrally located in Copenhagen. Further information about research at the Department is available here: https://di.ku.dk/english/research/.
The application deadline is March 8, 2026, with a preferred start date of September 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications must be submitted here: https://employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=156319
Informal enquiries about the positions can be made to Desmond Elliott, Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen, e-mail: de@di.ku.dk.