We are looking for a Postdoc with experience in Bioacoustics to join our team on the ANIML project, where the goal is to study the complex units of budgerigar (Melopsittacus undulatus,
a small parrot species) warble song. In prior work, we showed that
these song units contain subunits that are similar to consonants and
vowels in human speech. However, our recordings were limited to mostly
male songs that were produced directly by willing individuals into an
experimenter’s microphone.This project has been running for 1.5 years
with a team with backgrounds in signal processing/machine learning to
develop a pipeline to record individual budgerigar vocalizations while
they are all vocalizing naturally together in a group. We are now
looking for someone with expertise to study this dataset as it becomes
available.
This project is being hosted at the Acoustics Research Institute,
which is an interdisciplinary institute with researchers of many fields
(e.g., biology, phonetics, mathematics, physics, psychoacoustics etc).
This allows us to address interdisciplinary problems in acoustics and is
a unique work environment.
Deadline: February 15
Start date: June 2026 (with some flexibility)
The position is limited to 2 years but a short-term (max 12 months) extension may be possible.
For details and how to apply, see: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/oeaw-home/jobs?jh=a16ucy4z9sicr0g4bj0wvv3ritd0kml