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Three professorships open at University of Hildesheim: Information Science, Multimodal Communication and Translation, and Natural Language Processing and Information Systems

University of Hildesheim
University of Hildesheim

Application Deadline: Novemeber 23, 2025


The Faculty 3, Language and Information Sciences, at the University of Hildesheim invites applications for three professors:

W2 Professorship (m/f/d) for Multimodal Communication and Translation


Responsibilities:

  • Research into key areas of audiovisual translation and multimodal communication in an increasingly digital environment

  • Participation in interdisciplinary research projects within the Knowledge Lab Information Literacy and Accessibility, as well as other research units at the University of Hildesheim and beyond

  • Teaching in the degree programmes of the faculty, primarily in the Master's degree programme in Media Text and Media Translation and the Bachelor's degree programme in International Communication and Translation

  • Collaboration in academic self-administration, including the continuous development of teaching formats and study curricula

  • Cooperation with public and private broadcasters and other players in the translation industry

W3 Professorship (m/f/d) for Information Science


Responsibilities

  • Research in areas of Information Science (with a focus on AI) including but not limited to:

    - Analysis of Information Behavior and design of Human-Machine Interaction

    - Information Access (e.g. Web Information Retrieval, Search Systems)

    - Information Infrastructure and Information Markets

    - Evaluation Research

    - Information Quality

    - LLMs in Information Science

    - AI and Information Literacy

  • Participation in interdisciplinary research projects within the Knowledge Lab Information Literacy and Accessibility, as well as other research units at the University of Hildesheim and beyond (e.g. teacher education)

  • Teaching in the degree programmes of the faculty, primarily in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes International Information Management 

  • Collaboration in academic self-administration, including the continuous development of teaching formats and study curricula

W3 Professorship (m/f/d) for Natural language processing and information systems


Responsibilities:

  • Research in areas of Natural Language Processing and design of information systems (with regard to Information Science) including but not limited to:

    - Natural Language Processing with user-oriented approaches

    - Applications of NLP for Digital Social Sciences and Digital Humanities

    - Evaluation of Large Language Models (e.g. bias)

    - Multimodal and multilingual models

    - Consideration and analysis of Cultural Heterogeneity

  • Participation in interdisciplinary research projects within the Knowledge Lab Information Literacy and Accessibility, as well as other research units at the University of Hildesheim and beyond (e.g. teacher education)

  • Teaching in the degree programmes of the faculty, primarily in the Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes International Information Management

  • Collaboration in academic self-administration, including the continuous development of teaching formats and study curricula


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