PHD position in Aalto University, Finland

[Ville Pulkki <ville@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A PhD position available in the spatial sound research team at the Aalto 
University

The team (~15 members) has been working on spatial audio techniques and on 
perception of spatial sound for more than a decade already. A position is 
opened to the project on functional modeling of brain mechanisms in 
auditory pathway devoted to spatial hearing. In the project, the 
functionality and anatomy of brain organs is studied, and a network is 
built having functionally similar DSP blocks in equal topology.  The 
information available on psychoacoustics, neuroanatomy and neurophysiology 
is used in the work, and possibly new psychophysical tests are conducted 
to fine-tune the parameters in the model.

Reverse engineering of the brains is a good DSP exercise

The applicants should hold MSc in relevant field, and should have 
experience at least some of the following fields or skills
- psychoacoustics
- digital signal processing
- audio
- matlab

The project is funded by ERC starting researcher grant, Academy of Finland 
and by Aalto University. The contract would be made for 2+2 years.

Please send to address Ville.Pulkki@xxxxxxxx during April 2013 a free-form 
application with CV and other relevant attachments. Please state also 1-2 
references.

Questions: pls contact me directly.

Ville Pulkki
Professor (Tenure track assistant level 2)
Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
Aalto University
Espoo, Finland