Research Assistant
2 weeks ago
Applications are invited for a Research Assistant (RA) position in Immersive Audio.
**Duties and responsibilities**:
Specific activities associated with this post are related with the following experiments:
- HRTFs vs. DTFs: can humans localize sounds better when presented with the full information of the HRTF?
- Measured HRTFs vs. calculated HRTFs (or DTFs then, depending on the outcome of the first experiment): do they give different performances in a localisation task? And are there differences between the calculated HRTFs of a reference scan vs. the calculated HRTFs of a photogrammetric reconstruction.
- Publish the research outputs in national and international conferences and high-impact journals
**Essential requirements**:
- An MEng/MSc in areas related with computing, hearing sciences, digital signal processing, music technology and/or acoustics (equivalent industry experience will be considered)
- At least two years of research experience in the areas related with digital signal processing applied to hearing sciences, music technology and/or acoustics (equivalent industry experience will be considered)
- Practical experience within a research environment and/or publication in relevant and refereed journals and conference venues
- Experience with sound processing and coding in Matlab, Python, Javascript or other similar environments/languages
**Desirable requirements**
- Experience with integrating hardware and software components and interfaces (e.g. motion trackers, game controllers, tracking systems)
- Experience in spatial acoustics and immersive audio research and/or product development
- Experience with electrophysiology equipment and experiments
- At least two years of post-doctoral research experience in areas related with digital signal processing applied to hearing sciences, music technology and/or acoustics, or industry equivalent
- Knowledge of computer programming for Virtual and Augmented Reality, ideally in Unity, but other similar development platforms might also be considered
- Coding skills in one or more of the following programming languages: C++, C#, Java, Objective C
- Experience with conducting research areas such as spatial acoustics and immersive audio; hearing science, audiology, hearing aids technology.
**Further information**:
This is a part time (0.8 FTE/ 28 hours/week), fixed-term 6 months post.
**Closing Date**: two weeks
**Interviews**: TBC
**Start date**:1st September 2023 - earlier or later dates will be considered
Further information about the post is available in the job description.
**Documents**:
- Research Assistant - JD.pdf
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