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Ort: | Wien |
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Unternehmen: | Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
The Acoustics Research Institute (ARI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW), Austria’s leading nonuniversity research facility, undertakes top-level research in auditory cognitive neuroscience, psychoacoustics and experimental audiology, phonetics, bioacoustics, physical and computational acoustics, mathematics and signal processing as well as machine learning in acoustics. The institute is offering a
((full time, 40h per week)
within the framework H2020 / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network "CherISH: Cochlear Implants and Spatial Hearing" (Grant Agreement 101120054). You can find a more detailed project description here: https://cherish.jhdm.de/project-2/
The OeAW leads the project Nr.6: Neural basis and learning transferabilities of spatial hearing abilities. This PhD project investigates the neural plasticity through sound localization training and its transferability to important real-life situations such as to detect danger signals like looming objects and to selectively attend to spatially separated sources in multi-speaker environments. Comparisons will be made between normal-hearing and bilateral CI listeners.
The PhD student will be supervised by Dr. Robert Baumgartner at the OeAW. Prof. Ulrich Ansorge will act as PhD advisor at the University of Vienna.
Requirements:We welcome applications from Doctoral Researcher candidates fulfilling the following criteria:
A solid scientific background will be required, if possible, closely related to the neurophysiology and psychology of hearing. Adequate competences are required in neurophysiological/psychological experimenting, programming, signal processing, and statistical data analysis. Previous experience with EEG and eyetracking is beneficial.
The PhD candidate will work with patients with hearing impairments. It is important to be sensitive to their limitations and needs and to develop empathy towards them. To communicate with the patients well, sufficient German language skills are needed. Additional Hungarian language skills are a plus as they would enable the candidate to also run experiments during a 6-week secondment to Budapest.
The idea of the training network is to advance one's own project in cooperation with other scientists. It is therefore crucial that the PhD candidate can work efficiently both independently and in a team.
The position is a 3-year full-time employment contract, enrolled in a PhD program. The annual gross salary is € 46.142,46 in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement of the OeAW. As per MSCA regulations for Doctoral Researchers, the salary additionally includes a mobility, and family allowance (if applicable).
Application ProcessCandidates should send a CV (including publications if any); 1-page motivation letter, and 2 or 3 recommendation letters, all compiled as a single PDF attachment by e-mail to Robert Baumgartner (robert.baumgartner@oeaw.ac.at) no later than 30th April 2024 – 17:00 (CET).
As subject of the email, please write “CherISH- PhD candidate application – Project DC6”. He can also be contacted for informal inquiries and questions. Applications must be in English. Each applicant can apply to a maximum of three individual research projects within the Doctoral network CherISH.
The Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW) pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity. Individuals from underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged to apply.