Leonie Weissweiler

Before moving to Leipzig, I was a postdoc at Uppsala University Computational Linguistics, working with Joakim Nivre and funded by the Walter Benjamin Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Before that, I was a postdoc at UT Austin Linguistics, working with Kyle Mahowald, funded by the DFG and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

I completed my PhD in 2024 at the Center for Information and Language Processing at LMU Munich, where my thesis was about Computational Approaches to Construction Grammar and Morphology. My supervisor was Hinrich Schütze.

Previously, I completed my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computational Linguistics and Computer Science at LMU, with scholarships from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and the Max Weber Program. My M.Sc. thesis, supervised by Hinrich Schütze, was on the application of Complementary Learning Systems Theory to NLP. I spent the final year of my bachelor's degree as a visiting student at Homerton College, University of Cambridge, where I wrote my B.Sc. thesis on Character-Level RNNs under the supervision of Anna Korhonen.