Stillingstittel: Associate Professor in Music Technology

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.Associate Professor in Music Technology

A position as Associate Professor in Music Technology is jointly available at the Departments of Musicology and Informatics, University of Oslo. The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.

The Department of Musicology is one of the largest musicology institutions in Europe with its 30 permanent staff members, 200 bachelor students, 100 master students and 10 PhD and postdoctoral fellows. The staff and students are involved in research within a number of different fields, with a particular focus on cognitive musicology, popular music studies and music history and aesthetics. The Department houses labs with state-of-the-art motion capture, sound spatialization, and music production facilities, and is internationally known for its research on music and movement, popular music, and musical rhythm.

The Department of Informatics (IFI) is one of eight departments belonging to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. IFI is Norway’s largest university department for general education and research in Computer Science and related topics. The Department has over 1100 bachelor students, 450 master students, and over 190 PhD students. The overall staff of the Department is close to 250 employees, with 70 full time scientific staff. The announced position is affiliated to the Robotics and Intelligent Systems research group focusing on adaptive systems research, often including biologically inspired methods and custom built robots and human interfaces.

Through the fourMs project (Music, Mind, Motion, Machines), the two Departments have established a close research collaboration which also includes the Department of Psychology. The Departments of Musicology and Informatics now seek to strengthen further the collaboration by appointing an Associate Professor in a joint position specializing in the area of music technology. Music technology includes analytical directions (such as computer-assisted music and motion analysis, foundations of music cognition, signal processing, and music information retrieval) as well as performance and production directions (such as development of computer music systems, new interfaces for musical expression, and musical robotics). We are particularly looking for candidates that can strengthen our Departments in one or more of the following: motion tracking/capture, spatial audio, machine learning, and robotics. Applicants will need to be critically informed and pioneering in their research, with identified specializations in the field, and with a capacity to combine technological and musicological perspectives and methods.

The successful recipient of this post will be expected to undertake research at a high international level, participate in teaching, supervision and evaluation of students at all levels, while fulfilling administrative duties in accordance with the needs of the two Departments. As a joint position, the recipient is expected to share his or her working time equally between the two Departments, and initiate joint research projects and courses within both environments.

Requirements

• PhD or equivalent academic qualifications within music technology, musicology, informatics, computer science, or similar
• Solid programming skills and knowledge of computer sci
  
  Minstelønn: 0
  
  Maksimal lønn: 0
  
  Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, The Department of
  
  Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO
  
  Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers
  
  Land: Norge
  
  Region: Oslo
  
  Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge
  
  Lønn valuta: NOK
  
  Lønn periode: Pr. år
  
  
  GJELDER