Team

Leonie Weissweiler

Principal Investigator

Jun.-Prof. Dr.
Leonie Weissweiler

leonie.weissweiler@uni-leipzig.de

  • Juniorprofessor (~Assistant Professor) at the University of Leipzig
  • PhD in Computational Linguistics from LMU Munich
  • Research at the intersection of linguistic theory and NLP
  • Computational linguistics & language models

PhD Students

Jacob Lee Suchardt

Jacob Lee Suchardt M.Sc.

PhD Student

Since April 2026

jacob.suchardt@uni-leipzig.de

  • M.A. Language Technology, Gothenburg University
  • B.A. Computational Linguistics & Japanese Studies, Bochum University
  • Multilinguality and linguistic competency of language models
  • Speech Processing, Phonetics, and Phonology
Toshiki Nakai

Toshiki Nakai M.Sc.

PhD Student

Since April 2026

toshiki.nakai@uni-leipzig.de

  • M.Sc. in Language Science and Technology, Saarland University
  • B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, Waseda University
  • Mechanistic interpretability on multilingual language processing
  • Syntax & Linguistic cartography

Administration

Petra Gamrath

Secretary

petra.gamrath@uni-leipzig.de