PhD position 3: Signatures of listening effort
The PhD student will assess new ways to manipulate auditory task demand and motivation to investigate their impact on listening effort and fatigue as measured with functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) and pupillometry. The student will apply the new tests to investigate the impact of (work-related) acoustical conditions and hearing aid settings. The student will receive a 4-year contract: for the first 1.5 years the appointment is at Eriksholm Research Centre, Snekkersten, Denmark. For the next 2.5 year, the appointment is at Amsterdam UMC, The Netherlands. The doctoral thesis will be obtained from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
Where will the candidate be working?
Eriksholm pursues audiological discoveries with the potential to significantly enhance end-user benefits in future hearing care. We work in close collaboration with academic research institutions, clinicians, and end-users, and being part of Oticon ensures that our scientific insights are applied in solutions that empower people with hearing loss.
We are a multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary team of scientists that respect and care about each other and we work in a very informal environment. We are all dedicated to exploring the unknown and striving for excellence, and we have scientific integrity and room for taking chances. Eriksholm has research facilities that include EEG, Ear-EEG, motion capture, eye-tracking, fNIRS, speech testing, a large anechoic chamber with speaker array, and a fully supported clinic and audiological facility.
Amsterdam University Medical Center, location VUmc
In the second part of the project, the student will be based at the Amsterdam UMC, location VUmc, dept. of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, section Ear and Hearing. In this project the PhD candidate will work closely together with a team of psychologists, audiologists and technicians, and the other EASYLI doctoral candidates.
The research will be embedded in the Amsterdam Public Health Research institute, which stimulates state-of-the-art research that contributes to the ever-growing health potential of individuals and communities across the course of life. The institute concentrates its research efforts in nine research programs in which 1700+ researchers from multidisciplinary disciplines are brought together.
Amsterdam Research brings together opinion leading academic research in the field of Health & Life Sciences developed in the Amsterdam region.
Amsterdam UMC has an open culture. This means that we hope that everyone feels welcome in our organization and that we strive to offer equal opportunities to everyone. We therefore cordially invite all interested parties to respond to this vacancy.
Senior Researchers involved in this project are Hamish Innes-Brown, Adriana Zekveld and Dorothea Wendt.