Working at Schütze Lab

Applications for PhD and Postdoc positions

If you are interested in working with us as a PhD student or postdoc, please send us an email. State briefly why you are interested and attach a CV, including information about your academic profile. No need for a separate cover letter or certificates. Important: please insert “Application PhD” or “Application Postdoc” in the subject line. If you are applying to a specific advertisement, note this in your email.

Current open thesis positions

REMINDER. If you are a CL student from CIS and want to do a BSc/MSc thesis in our lab, you must contact a supervisor (through our application form) at least two weeks before the faculty-wide registration period:

• Feb 12 2025 for MSc thesis
• Feb 26 2025 for BSc thesis

Presently we have open BSc/MSc thesis positions in the following areas. Kindly apply on this form. You can also apply if you have a thesis topic of your own :

• (MSc) Evaluating Faithfulness in Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
• (MSc) Measuring and Exploiting Redundancy in Multi-Turn Reasoning Traces
• (MSc) Look Again: Prompt-Level Visual Repetition for Robust Reasoning in Vision–Language Models
• (BSc) Warm-Starting Active Learning with Synthetic Data for Imbalanced Hate Speech Classification
• (MSc) Query-Level Uncertainty for Ability-Aware Routing and Triage in Active Learning
• (BSc/MSc) Relations in the Wild: Collecting Contextual Instances of Relation Triples for the Detection of Latent Representations
• (MSc) Morality-related directions in the activation space of multilingual models
• (MSc) Effects of Pretraining on Bias in LLMs
• (BSc) A Prompt Stress-Test Suite for LLM Media-Bias Judgments
• (MSc) Translation-Induced Framing Shifts in LLM Bias Evaluations
• (MSc) Faithfulness / plausibility of logit lens across models

We would also like to point out the opportunity to do a Master thesis or research project at Media Bias Group in Tokyo. If you are interested, please contact them first (enough in advance!), and then ask us to officially supervise you on this project.

More topics will be added, so check back again.

Masters/Bachelors Thesis and Internships

• If you want to do a thesis at the lab, kindly fill out this form or look at the advertised thesis topics above.
• If you are a Master/Bachelor student in Computational Linguistics at LMU, please be mindful of the deadlines advertised on the CIS website. Additionally you can pick one of the topics at this link (only available to LMU students).
• Sometimes, we take master students or summer interns if we get exceptional applicants (this usually means very good grades and a personal recommendation). Please fill out this form and mention that you are interested in an internship.

Computational Linguistics Degree at CIS

If you are interested in pursuing a Bachelor/Master degree at LMU Munich, please see the CIS website.