BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Organisation/Company BCBL BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION BRAIN AND LANGUAGE Research Field Neurosciences Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1) Positions Research Support Positions Application Deadline 1 Sep 2026 - 23:59 (Europe/Madrid) Country Spain Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Hours Per Week 35 Offer Starting Date 1 Oct 2026 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe - ERC Reference Number ERC-2024-ADG_101199408 Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No
Offer Description

The

Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL)

is offering a

Research Assistant position

within the

DISORDERED SPEECH

project, recently funded by the

European Research Council (ERC) .
Advances in recent years have improved our ability to address language problems in both children and adults, with roughly 7 % of children known to have significant spoken language problems (developmental language disorder, DLD)



and another 7 % having written language problems (developmental dyslexia, DD). Early identification remains difficult, and no theory has yet explained their overlaps. The ERC-funded DISORDERED-SPEECH project will introduce and explore a novel research frontier for developmental language disorders, focusing on speech rhythm and the accurate production of prosodic patterns. It will use novel speech-production tasks alongside the neural theory of child language acquisition to develop tools for the identification of DD and DLD across a variety of European languages.
Job Description:
Coordinate participant recruitment and testing through outreach activities

in the BCBL Junior Lab (Colegio Carmelitas Sagrado Corazón) in Vitoria-Gasteiz
Collect behavioural and neuroimaging data from bilingual children with and without developmental dyslexia and developmental language disorders

in the BCBL Junior Lab (Colegio Carmelitas Sagrado Corazón) in Vi

📌 Research Assistant Position (Madrid)
🏢 EURAXESS Czech Republic
📍 Madrid