Postdoc Position: Chemical and Protein Language Models, Saarland University, Germany
Our research group has a strong tradition in language models and their applications having made major contributions to both the core research as well as its use in areas like vision&language and low resource language processing. In recent years a new application area of LLMs has emerged: deep learning in scientific discovery. Therefore our research group is now focusing on getting a deeper understanding of how language models work and how they can be applied to biomedical domains. Our recent achievements include best paper awards at COLING, ACL and Interspeech. Many former group members now have faculty positions at institutions like Mila.
The ideal candidate for the position would have:
1. Excellent knowledge of LLMs, machine learning and deep learning
2. Excellent programming skills
3. PhD in in a relevant field
4. Successful experiences working both independently and as part of a small team
Salary: The Postdoc position will be 100% of full time on the German E13 scale (TV-L) which is about 4967€ per month before tax and social security contributions. The appointment will be for two years with a possible extension.
About the department: The department of Language Science and Technology is one of the leading departments in the speech and language area in Europe. The flagship project at the moment is the CRC on Information Density. It also runs a significant number of European and nationally funded projects. In total, it has seven faculty and around 50 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students. The department is part of the Saarland Informatics Campus. With 900 researchers, two Max Planck institutes and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, it is one of the leading locations for Informatics in Germany and Europe. We also have close collaborations with the department of bioinformatics and the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research.
How to apply: Please send us a letter of motivation, your CV, your transcripts, a list of publications, and the names and contact information of at least two references, as a single PDF or a link to a PDF if the file size is more than 5 MB.
Please apply latest by February 15th, 2026.
Contact: Applications and any further inquiries regarding our research should be directed to dietrich.klakow@lsv.uni-saarland.de