Postdoc at MaxPlanck & NYU in the MPS-NYU Center for Language, Music, and Emotion (CLaME.nyu.edu)

The Max-Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt, Germany, investigates aesthetic experience from various perspectives. In the new Max Planck-NYU Center for Language, Music and Emotion (clame.nyu.edu) an international team of researchers investigates these foundational human experiences from novel perspectives, linking language, music, emotion, memory, and decision-making. The Center is comprised of interconnected and interdisciplinary research groups (in Frankfurt and New York) that capitalize on the expertise and resources of the participating scientists across the sites.

The Frankfurt site of CLaME seeks a

Postdoctoral Researcher (m/f/d)

to focus on research that capitalizes on the ArtLab (https://www.aesthetics.mpg.de/en/artlab.html) and to develop an independent research program that investigates groups. This unique research facility offers the infrastructure to set up physiological experiments with more than 40 participants.

Applicants should hold a PhD degree, have an excellent record in their respective disciplines, be excited to work on group studies, be interested in cooperation across disciplines as well as with researchers at the NYU CLaME site, and be prepared to work in a multilingual, international environment. The postdoc will collaborate with researchers at the NYU site of CLaME to work on projects on music, language, emotion, and neuroscience.

Further Qualifications:

·       Evidence of completion of projects

·       Exceptional curiosity to develop studies on large groups (and the necessary hardware and software) – experience required

·       Very strong coding and quantitative skills

·       PhD. in neuroscience, social psychology, cognitive science, psychology, and/or music with a strong background in engineering

·       Robust sense of humour and patience

Salaries of Postdocs are determined following the salary scale E 13 (German TVÖD/Bund*). Substantial social benefits come on top of the salary.

The Max Planck Society is committed to increasing the number of individuals with disabilities in its workforce and therefore encourages applications from such qualified individuals. Furthermore, the Max Planck Society seeks to increase the number of women in those areas where they are underrepresented and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply.

Questions about the position can be addressed to David Poeppel: david.poeppel@ae.mpg.de . Please submit your application including a CV, three publications, a 2-page research proposal, and three references via e-mail – preferably in pdf format - no later than September 15, 2019, to: job@ae.mpg.de

*Collective Wage Agreement for the Federal Civil Service

Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik

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