Interested in a challenging postdoc position in Amsterdam?

MCG in November 2024.

We are currently looking for a postdoc researcher that likes to work on the intersection of music cognition, biology, and the cognitive sciences. If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us. 

More information, including details on how to apply, will be made available soon at our website.

Deadline for applications : 1 December 2024. 

 

 

Interested in doing a PhD in Music Cognition?

Master students of the UvA (or excellent external candidates) are invited to submit a short proposal to be selected as a candidate for NWO's PhD in the Humanities programme.

At the ILLC there will be a pre-selection procedure based on a short proposal and cv. More information for excellent candidates is available here. 

 

Deadline for pre-proposals: 03 November 2024.

 

The aim of the PhDs in the Humanities funding instrument is to increase the number of young talented researchers in the humanities, and to facilitate their progression on the academic career ladder. See NWO website for more information. 

Interested in a one-year postdoc position?

MCG, November 2023

We are looking for a postdoc researcher that likes to work on the intersection of music cognition, psychometrics, and the cognitive sciences. If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us. 

More information, including details on how to apply, can be found at the UvA website.

Deadline for applications : 15 January 2024.

Interested in doing a PhD in Music Cognition?

Master students of the UvA (or excellent external candidates) are invited to submit a short proposal to be seleted as candidate for NWO's PhD in the Humanities programme.

At the ILLC there will be a pre-selection procedure based on a short proposal and cv. More information for internal candidates is available here. 

 

Deadline for pre-proposals: 03 December 2023.

 

The aim of the PhDs in the Humanities funding instrument is to increase the number of young talented researchers in the humanities, and to facilitate their progression on the academic career ladder. See NWO website for more information. 

Interested in contributing to our web-based music science platform?

Are you looking for a challenging job in a dynamic interdisciplinary team? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced front-end developer, contributing to the development of a flexible and sustainable infrastructure for MUSic-related Citizen Science Listening Experiments (MUSCLE). The project is funded by a PDI-SSH grant awarded to the Music Cognition Group (MCG) at the ILLC. 

More information on how to apply can be found here. 

Deadline for applications is 31 October 2023.

 

Interested in becoming Assistant Professor in Generative AI in Amsterdam?

Generative AI in the past decade has changed the field of artistic creativity, making us ask new questions that are relevant not only for scientific research but also for musicians and artists of all kinds. With this position, we are seeking to broaden our profile with respect to AI-assisted music generation and how AI-generated art can be positioned within the humanities and cognitive science more generally. The explosive growth of creative AI has also brought new ethical and epistemological dimensions to reflect upon, and we are looking for a colleague who can translate this reflection into both teaching and research. The ideal candidate will be somebody comfortable engaging in the ethics and implications of using AI in artistic processes regardless of medium, with more specific expertise in how AI is (and can be) used to make music. 

See here for all information on how to apply.

Deadline for applications: 12 January 2023.

Interested in doing a PhD in music cognition?

Master students of the UvA (or excellent external candidates) are invited to submit a short proposal to be seleced as candidate for NWO's PhD in the Humanities programme. The aim of the PhDs in the Humanities funding instrument is to increase the number of young talented researchers in the humanities, and to facilitate their progression on the academic career ladder. See NWO website for more information. 

 

At the ILLC there will be a pre-selection procedure based on a short proposal and cv. More information for internal candidates is available here. 

 

Deadline for pre-proposals: 2 December 2022.

Interested in doing a PhD in Amsterdam?

We are seeking a PhD candidate for the project Deep: Interpreting Deep Learning Models for Text and Sound Methods and Applications. This project is funded by an NWO Dutch Research Agenda grant to a consortium led by Dr. Willem Zuidema of the Institute for Logic, Language, and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

 

This ambitious project aims to develop, apply, and fine-tune techniques to make modern deep learning models for text, speech, and music more transparent. 

 

In this PhD position you can combine insights from audio analysis and deep learning to help musicians play what they love. If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment with smart and friendly colleagues and a strong industrial collaboration, then you may want to join us.

All information on how to apply can be found here.

Deadline for applications is 21 July 2022.

Interested in becoming an Assistant Professor in Computational Creativity?

If you have expertise in computational creativity in music and the performing arts, and would like to complement our research group in Amsterdam, see here for more information.

Deadline for applications: 21 March 2022.

Interested in developing a Music Related Citizen Science Infrastructure?

Are you looking for a challenging job in a dynamic interdisciplinary team? The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) is looking for an enthusiastic and experienced back-end engineer, contributing to the development of a flexible and sustainable infrastructure for MUSic-related Citizen Science Listening Experiments (MUSCLE). The project is funded by a PDI-SSH grant awarded to the Music Cognition Group (MCG) at the ILLC. 

More information on how to apply for the position (3 years, 0.5 fte) can be found here. 

Deadline for applications is 15 February 2022.

 

Geïnteresseerd om student-assistent (SA) te worden bij MCG? [Dutch]

Ben je student aan de UvA en op zoek naar een interessante bijbaan binnen de universiteit? De muziekcognitiegroep (MCG) is op zoek naar een student-assistent (SA) voor een wetenschapscommunicatieproject waarin een kennis- en luisterspel wordt ontwikkeld. 

MCG heeft dit jaar een prijs van de KNAW ontvangen om een kennis- en luisterspel te ontwikkelen met als doel te laten zien dat luisteraars muzikaler zijn dan dat ze zelf denken. Dit onder de titel Iedereen is muzikaal: Wat muziekcognitieonderzoek kan zeggen over de alledaagse luisteraar.

Doel van dit project is het bijeenbrengen van bestaande luistertestjes en demonstraties uit de verschillende publiekslezingen en media-optredens van MCG.

Op basis hiervan zal een aantrekkelijk en motiverend spel worden ontworpen; een spel dat feedback geeft over je luistertalenten, je voorkeuren en die een relatie legt met de bestaande wetenschappelijke literatuur. Doelgroep is iedereen die van muziek houdt en wil begrijpen hoe onze relatie met muziek in elkaar zit. 

Meer weten? 

Zie de advertentie, en hoe te solliciteren, op deze link. 

Interested in a 4 year PhD in Amsterdam?

Are you looking for a PhD position where you can combine insights from music cognition, cognitive behavioral ecology, and cognitive science? If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us.

All information on the research project and how to apply can be found here.

Deadline for applications is 1 November 2021.

Interested in a 3 year Postdoc in Amsterdam?

Are you looking for a postdoctoral position where you can combine insights from music cognition with psychometrics and cognitive science? If you are excited about doing this kind of research in an interdisciplinary environment, with a team of smart and friendly colleagues, then you may want to join us.

All information on the research project and how to apply can be found here.

Deadline for applications is 1 November 2021.

 

Want to be an intern at MCG in 2021/22?

New internships / master projects at MCG for 2021/22:

1. Explorative design and evaluation of memory-based listening games  
2. What are we actually listening to when we listen to music? Pitch, rhythm or something else?
3. Revisiting rhythm space: modeling diversity in categorical rhythm perception  
4. Ontwerp van kennis- en luisterspel ter promotie muziekcognitie-onderzoek [Dutch] 
5. and more...
   

See for detailed information: https://www.mcg.uva.nl/stages.html.

Interested in bridging data science and music research during a PhD at the UvA?

The UvA Data Science Centre seeks to accelerate data driven research within the UvA. Part of that mission is to foster interdisciplinary research. Specifically, in this call, the UvA aims to foster research into new data science methods that help to tackle hard challenging problems in a given domain. Such interaction is realized through joint supervision of the proposed PhD project: one supervisor with core expertise in data science methods, the other with core expertise in the domain problem. 

For details on the PhD-program see here.  

If interested, please contact MCG before September 1, 2021.

Deadline for final applications:  September 23, 2021,17:00.

Interested in doing a PhD in Amsterdam?

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) currently has a PhD position available. Applications are invited from excellent candidates wishing to conduct research in an area within ILLC (i.e. mathematics, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy, or music cognition) that fits naturally the Faculty of Humanities.

See webpage for more information. Deadline: 31 March 2021.

Interested in doing a postdoc on rhythm cognition in Amsterdam?

The Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) now invites applications from excellent candidates wishing to conduct postdoctoral research on the computational and (neuro)cognitive underpinnings of rhythm cognition. 

For details on the 2-year position and information on how to apply, see UvA-webpage.

Deadline: 31 December 2020.

Ben jij de nieuwe webprogrammeur van het spraak- en muzieklab?

Hou je van het ontwerpen en implementeren van interactieve websites voor verschillende platforms (desktop, smartphone, tablet)? Zou je graag in een spannende academische omgeving willen werken? Ben je iemand die goed overzicht kan houden en goed kan samenwerken? De Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen van de Universiteit van Amsterdam (UvA) heeft per 1 februari een vacature voor een webprogrammeur voor het spraak- en muzieklab. Deadline voor sollicitaties: 15 december 2020.

Voor uitgebreide informatie zie: 20-694-webprogrammeur-spraak-en-muzieklab

Interested in becoming an SA at MCG?

www.mcg.uva.nl

The Music Cognition Group (MCG) searches for an enthusiastic and well-organized student assistant / P.A. acting as a first point of contact with people from both inside and outside MCG, starting 1 September 2020 (0.2 fte). Deadline for applications is 15 July 2020.

N.B. You have to be registered as a bachelor or master student at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

For more information, and detailed instructions on how to apply, see here.

Interested in doing a postdoc in Amsterdam?

Interested in doing a postdoc at the Music Cognition Group in Amsterdam? See [1] for a European (and a Dutch, outgoing) grant opportunity for promising researchers of any nationality.

 [1] http://www.mcg.uva.nl/jobs.html