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 (or through our application form) before the following dates:

Feb 12 for MSc thesis
Feb 26 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/MSc) Pragmatic categories in hate speech annotation
• (BSc/MSc) Structured Retrieval for Improved Named Entity Recognition with LLMs in historical corpora
• (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) Visualizing Spatial Understanding of Textual Descriptions in Language Models
• (BSc/MSc) Empowering Minority Voices in Text Generation: Creating a Contrastive Dataset for Activation Steering
• (MSc) Morality-related directions in the activation space of multilingual models
• (BSc/MSc) Exploring Archival of Queer Language across Time and Communities
• (MSc) Effects of Pretraining on Bias in LLMs
• (BSc) Investigating Media Bias in Language Models
• (MSc) Investigating Media Bias in Language Models
• (BSc) A Prompt Stress-Test Suite for LLM Media-Bias Judgments
• (MSc) Translation-Induced Framing Shifts in LLM Bias Evaluations
• (BSc) Bag-of-words based news recommender system
• (MSc) Faithfulness / plausibility of logit lens across models
• (BSc/MSc) Are Pixel-based Models More Robust Against Textual Perturbations?
• (MSc) Identifying Relation Neurons with Synthetic Data
• (BSc) Evaluating Faithfulness of Post-hoc Explanation Methods for Transformer-based Text Classification
• (MSc) Aligning Natural Language Explanations with Token-level Attributions in Instruction-tuned Language Models

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.