[Job-offers-cs] PhD and Postdoc Opportunities in Theoretical and Computational Music Research

[Pekka Orponen]

PhD and Postdoc Opportunities in Theoretical and Computational Music 
Research

The groups of (1) Digital and Cognitive Musicology and (2) Discrete 
Optimization at EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland, as well as the (3) Institute 
for Theory and History at the Anton Bruckner Universität Linz, Austria 
offer several PostDoc as well as PhD positions in the scope of a joint 
research project.

The positions are offered within the Sinergia project “Towards a Unified 
Model of Musical Form: Bridging Music Theory, Digital Corpus Research, 
and Computation”. This collaborative and interdisciplinary project has 
recently been selected for funding by the Swiss National Science 
Foundation (SNSF) with 2.1 Mio CHF.

The primary goal of the project is to develop a generalized theory of 
musical form together with a robust, mathematically sound implementation 
that is computationally tractable, allowing for the automatic analysis 
of large musical corpora. The envisaged research is rooted in musicology 
as well as algorithm design and discrete optimization.

We invite applications for 2 PostDoc as well as 3 PhD positions. 
Necessary prerequisites for PhD positions are a Master’s Degree in 
Musicology, Music Theory, Mathematics, Music Information Retrieval, 
Computer Science, or some related area. A PostDoc is required to have a 
PhD in one of these areas.

PhD applications for the groups at EPFL should be sent to the respective 
doctoral schools: 
https://www.epfl.ch/education/phd/eddh-digital-humanities/ and 
https://www.epfl.ch/education/phd/edma-mathematics/

Applicants interested in either the PhD or postdoc position in Linz are 
referred to https://jobs.bruckneruni.at/Job/156?culture=en or 
https://jobs.bruckneruni.at/Job/155?culture=en

The prospective starting date is flexible around September 2024.

Further questions can be directed to:
- Martin Rohrmeier: martin.rohrmeier at epfl.ch - Friedrich Eisenbrand: 
friedrich.eisenbrand at epfl.ch
- Markus Neuwirth: markus.neuwirth at bruckneruni.at