Research Associate for the Project “Mittelniederdeutsche Grammatik” § 28 Subsection 3 HmbHG - Hamburg

The Hub of Computing and Data Science (HCDS) is a competence unit for research and forms the core element for the central support of digitalization and digital transformation in research at the University of Hamburg.

Your responsibilities

Duties include academic services in the project named above. Research associates may also pursue independent research and further academic qualifications. They may also pursue doctoral studies outside of working duties.

In the project "Mittelniederdeutsche Grammatik", you will research and develop computational aspects of providing a grammar for a historic language variant online. This encompasses the following steps:

1. conceptualize and implement a multi-tier architecture
2. computerlinguistic processing of relevant corpora for linguistic indexing
3. datamanagement and modelling
4. user- and role-centered visualizations
5. conceptualization and implementation of interfaces
6. web-based access and identity management

This position is subject to the decision of the Joint Science Conference (GWK) on the Academies' Program 2026 on 28 November 2025, which includes the approval of funding for the long-term project "Mittelniederdeutsche Grammatik" applied for with the starting date 01.01.2026.