32.1568, Support: Phonetics: PhD, Universität Bielefeld

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Subject: 32.1568, Support: Phonetics: PhD, Universität Bielefeld

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Date: Thu, 06 May 2021 13:39:14
From: Petra Wagner [petra.wagner at uni-bielefeld.de]
Subject: Phonetics: PhD, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Universität Bielefeld 
Department: Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies, CITEC, Phonetics Work Group 
Web Address: https://tinyurl.com/2m3bk8sp 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Phonetics 
Speech Technology 

Description:

PhD Position Phonetics, starting July 1st, 2021 (E13, TV-L, non-permanent
position)

Your Tasks:
Within the DFG funded project on “Deep speech representation learning for
research in phonetics”, the Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies offers
a part-time position as researcher in phonetics (65 %). The Bielefeld
phonetics work group is known for its research on spontaneous speech phenomena
in interaction, prosody, multimodality and human-machine interaction. The
Bielefeld research environment offers a stimulating environment for
collaboration both within linguistics and across disciplines, and a wide range
of options of further qualification.

Your research tasks (100 %) include:
- Research in the area of development and evaluation of a flexibly modifiable
deep learning based speech synthesis
tool
- Presentation of research results at workshops and conferences
- Publication of research results in scientific journals and high impact
conferences
- Supervising student research assistants within project work

Your Profile:
We expect:
- Master Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant area (e. g. phonetics, speech
technology, computational linguistics, linguistics, computer science)
- Interest in state-of-the-art speech synthesis, basic phonetics research and
its interdisciplinary interaction
- Knowledge in the analysis of speech with adequate tools
- Good English skills (written and oral)
- The ability to work collaboratively and as part of a team
- Independent, self-reliant and dedicated style of work
- Strong organizational and coordination skills
- Strong communication skills
- Distinctive presentation and moderation skills

Preferable qualifications:
- Profound knowledge in statistics
- Prior experience in building and analysing perception experiments

Remuneration:
Salary will be paid according to Remuneration level 13 of the Wage Agreement
for Public Service in the Federal States (TV-L). As stipulated in § 2 (1)
sentence 1 of the WissZeitVG (fixed-term employment), the contract will end
after 36 months. In accordance with the provisions of the WissZeitVG and the
Agreement on Satisfactory Conditions of Employment, the length of contract may
differ in individual cases. The employment is designed to encourage further
academic qualification. The position is advertised as 65 % part-time job. In
individual cases, this percentage may be reduced on request, as long as this
does not conflict with official needs.

Bielefeld University is particularly committed to equal opportunities and the
career development of its employees. It offers attractive internal and
external training and further training programmes. Employees have the
opportunity to use a variety of health, counselling, and prevention
programmes. Bielefeld University places great importance on a work- family
balance for all its employees.

Application Procedure:
For full consideration, your application should be received via either post
(see postal address below) or email (a single PDF document) sent to
alexandra.kenter at uni-bielefeld.de by May 27th, 2021. Please mark your
application with the identification code: wiss21074. Please do not use
application portfolios and send only photocopies of original documents because
all application materials will be destroyed at the end of the selection
procedure.

Further information on Bielefeld University can be found on our homepage at
www.uni-bielefeld.de. Please note that the possibility of privacy breaches and
unauthorized access by third parties cannot be excluded when communicating via
unencrypted e-mail. Information on the processing of personal data is
available
https://www.uni-bielefeld.de/Universitaet/Aktuelles/Stellenausschreibungen/201
9_DS-Hinweise_englisch.pdf.
 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Universität Bielefeld
	Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft Frau Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner
	P.O. Box: 10 01 31
	33501 Bielefeld
	Germany 
	
Contact Information: 
	Name: Prof. Dr. Petra Wagner
	Phone: +49 521 106-3510
	Email: petra.wagner at uni-bielefeld.de  


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