Postdoc in Listening-related Fatigue in Hearing-Aid Users – DTU Health Tech

If you are establishing your career as scientist and you are looking to make a difference in the field of auditory research, this postdoc position at DTU Hearing Systems might be for you.
If you are establishing your career as scientist and you are looking to make a difference in the field of auditory research, this postdoc position at DTU Hearing Systems might be for you.

We are seeking a candidate to join the project ‘MENSA: The effect of MENtal StAte fluctuations on engaged listening’, which aims to develop methods to assess and predict task-induced mental load and fatigue from eye tracking and facial features. This project will employ an experimental approach in the laboratory. The candidate’s main working place will be at DTU Hearing Systems (Lyngby, Denmark) and Oticon Eriksholm Research Centre (Snekkersten, Denmark).

The Hearing Systems Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is part of the department of Health Technology. Our research is concerned with auditory signal processing and perception, speech communication, audiology, behavioural and objective measures of auditory function, computational auditory neuroscience, environmental acoustics, and hearing-instrument signal processing. The goal of this research is to understand the functioning of the human auditory system and to provide insights that are useful for technical applications, such as speech recognition systems, hearing aids, cochlear implants, and hearing diagnostics. The project will be carried out in collaboration with Oticon Eriksholm Research Centre and is supported by the William Demant Foundation.

Responsibilities and qualifications
Your overall focus will be to strengthen the department’s competences within auditory research with the aim of assessing the exerted mental effort and its consequences such as listening-induced fatigue from eye tracking and face recognition data. Your primary tasks would be:

• to explore new laboratory equipment.
• design and carry out laboratory experiments to assess fatigue in hearing-aid users, applying methods such as eyetracking/pupillometry and face recognition.
• analyse and interpret data from laboratory experiments.
• work in close collaboration with researchers, audiologists, and technical experts from Eriksholm Research Centre and Oticon, but also alongside all project partners in academia.
• publish findings in leading scientific and clinical journals and engage with the research community at conferences and workshops.

You should bring the following qualifications:

• A PhD degree in (computational) neuroscience, biomedical engineering, computer vision, machine learning, experimental psychology, audiology, cognitive science, physics, electrical engineering, or a similarly relevant discipline.
• Experience with signal processing and quantitative methods (statistics or machine learning).
• Previous experience in (neuro-) physiology is a strong plus (e.g., eye tracking, pupillometry, EEG, MEG, or face recognition.)
• Strong interest in interdisciplinary and application-oriented work, supported by successful collaboration with researchers, technical and clinical staff outside of your main discipline.
• Experience in presenting your work at high quality international institutions and conferences and high proficiency in written and spoken English.
• Proficiency in the Danish language is not essential, but a willingness to learn could be useful in the longer-term.

We offer
DTU is a leading technical university globally recognized for the excellence of its research, education, innovation and scientific advice. We offer a rewarding and challenging job in an international environment. We strive for academic excellence in an environment characterized by collegial respect and academic freedom tempered by responsibility.

Salary and terms of employment
The appointment will be based on the collective agreement with the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations. The allowance will be agreed upon with the relevant union.

The period of employment is 2 years. Starting date is 1 August 2024 or according to mutual agreement.

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Further information
Further information may be obtained from affiliated associate professor Dorothea Wendt, [email protected] and head of section Torsten Dau, [email protected].

You can read more about DTU Health Tech at www.healthtech.dtu.dk/english.

If you are applying from abroad, you may find useful information on working in Denmark and at DTU at DTU – Moving to Denmark.

Application procedure
Your complete online application must be submitted no later than 18 June 2024 (23:59 Danish time). Applications must be submitted as one PDF file containing all materials to be given consideration. To apply, please open the link "Apply now", fill out the online application form, and attach all your materials in English in one PDF file. The file must include:

• Application (cover letter)
• CV
• Academic Diplomas (MSc/PhD – in English)
• List of publications

Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.

All interested candidates irrespective of age, gender, disability, race, religion or ethnic background are encouraged to apply.

DTU Health Tech
With a vision to improve health and quality of life through technology, DTU Health Tech engages in research, education, and innovation based on technical and natural science. We educate tomorrow’s health tech engineers and create the foundation for new and innovative services and technologies for the globally expanding healthcare sector with its demands for the most advanced technological solutions. DTU Health Tech’s expertise can be described through five overall research areas: Diagnostic Imaging, Digital Health, Personalised Therapy, Precision Diagnostics, and Sensory and Neural Technology. Our technologies and solutions are developed with the aim of benefiting people and creating value for society. The department has a scientific staff of about 210 persons, 140 PhD Students, and a technical/administrative support staff of about 100 persons of which a large majority contributes to our research infrastructure and related commercial activities.

Technology for people
DTU develops technology for people. With our international elite research and study programmes, we are helping to create a better world and to solve the global challenges formulated in the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals. Hans Christian Ørsted founded DTU in 1829 with a clear mission to develop and create value using science and engineering to benefit society. That mission lives on today. DTU has 13,500 students and 6,000 employees. We work in an international atmosphere and have an inclusive, evolving, and informal working environment. DTU has campuses in all parts of Denmark and in Greenland, and we collaborate with the best universities around the world.

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