CNRS APPLICATION/ LINGUISTICS

CNRS Research Associate Positions (Institut Jean-Nicod)

The Institut Jean-Nicod (IJN) is seeking to support linguistics applications to Research Associate (“Chargé de Recherche”) positions at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). CNRS Research Associate positions are full-time permanent positions intended for candidates in their early to mid-career. Applicants must hold a PhD by the application deadline. Knowledge of French is not required. Although CNRS hires researchers by way of a national competition, applicants are encouraged to select one or more research labs to which they would like to be assigned, and support is crucial for a successful application.

The present call pertains to this preliminary step of lab support by Institut Jean-Nicod ; the official CNRS application will be submitted at a later stage (the deadline to submit applications is normally in early January). We will accompany and advise candidates we support in their CNRS application. Located at the École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Institut Jean-Nicod has 29 permanent faculty members, working on analytic philosophy, linguistics, and social cognition, with a unifying theme of the human mind and the nature of representations. Linguistics atInstitut Jean-Nicod has historically been very strong in theoretical linguistics, formal semantics and pragmatics, and linguistically informed philosophical logic.

In recent years, it has extended its focus to include topics such as psycholinguistics (esp. experimental semantics and pragmatics), sign language, reasoning, computational linguistics, probabilistic modeling of pragmatics, and Super Linguistics Institut Jean-Nicod is interested in supporting a limited number of applicants with an excellent research record, a competitive dossier of journal articles, and motivation to develop a project in formal semantics and pragmatics. Prospective applicants should have a strong background in semantics/pragmatics,and potentially expertise and interests in using computational and/or experimental and/or fieldwork methods. 

Prospective applicants that wish to be supported by Institut Jean-Nicod are invited to contact the lab by sending a CV (including a publication list and the name of at least 2 references [no recommendation letter are required]) and a short description of their medium- to long-term research agenda (2 to 4 pages excluding references). The two documents must be sent in pdf format to ijnlinguisticcollege@gmail.com.

To ensure full consideration, please submit your application by November 10, 2025.