promote international cooperation within different specific fields of acoustics, provide assistance in organizing EAA events, suggest special issues for Acta Acustica or Acoustics in Practice, initiate studies and prepare documents such as strategies, policy statements, state-of-the-art assessments, reports, etc, within its defined technical field.

PhD Position (x2) - Machine Learning in Musical Audio / Acoustics and Audio Engineering (IEM, Graz, Austria)

Application deadline: Tue 30 Jun 2026

The Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria (KUG), is offering two fully-funded PhD positions within the KUG’s Sound and Music Computing doctoral programme.

  1. Machine Learning in Musical Audio: Independent research in computational methods for time-based arts and musicology (e.g. generative audio/music, timbre/expression, MIR, digital/computational musicology) under supervision of Prof. Anna Aljanaki. Fixed-term 4 years: https://go.iem.at/UAMLMA
  2. Acoustics and Audio Engineering: Independent research in audio signal processing and machine learning, with emphasis on real-time signal processing under supervision of Prof. Alois Sontacchi. Fixed-term 4 years: https://go.iem.at/UAAAE

Note:

These positions fully funded PhD positions (Austrian term: University Assistant, Prae-Doc), which are university staff employment positions in which the PhD project is developed jointly with the supervisor within the advertised research area, allowing considerable freedom to shape your own research. Candidates with a concrete research idea are encouraged to include a research exposé with their application, but this is not required.

We would be grateful if you could forward these offers to your students and other potential candidates. The application deadline is June 30, 2026.

The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is a non-profit entity established in 1992 that includes in its membership societies predominantly in European countries interested in to promote development and progress of acoustics in its different aspects, its technologies and applications. EAA gathers 33 societies of acoustics and serves more than 9000 individual members all over Europe. The European Acoustics Association (EAA) is an Affiliate Member of the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) and of Initiative of Science in Europe (ISE).

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