Hiring: 1 PhD Student (65%, E13 TV-L, 3 years)

Page from Li Shanlan's Comparable Categories of Discrete Accumulations (Duoji bilei 垛積比類), 1867
Page from Li Shanlan's Comparable Categories of Discrete Accumulations 垛積比類 (1867)

The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg invites applications for the position of a PhD student (f/m/d) with an interest in digital humanities and the language of modern science in China, in particular mathematics.

The position is part of the interdisciplinary project The language of algorithmic mathematics funded by the Alexander-von-Humboldt-Foundation. In cooperation with the Chair for Computational Corpus Linguistics and the Research Center for Mathematics of Data at FAU the PhD concerns the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the language of Chinese mathematical texts in a comparative perspective.

Deadline for Application is January 31st, 2022. For more details, see here.