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One PhD and two Industrial PhD fully-funded positions are available at the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory of the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento:

https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/openings/


To apply to the PhD calls it is necessary to have achieved a master degree by the end of October 2022 as well as to possess demonstrated English skills (e.g., via a master degree in English or via certificates such as TOEFL). All positions will start in November 2022 (or shortly after upon request). 

More PhD positions are planned to open in the near future.


1) PhD in "Connecting online musicians and audiences to reduce travels and pollution"


The PhD will focus on the creation of musical interactions in shared augmented/virtual environments, for performance settings. Related topics that may be investigated include music emotion recognition, binaural audio, virtual acoustics and 5G networking.

Required skills: 
Desirable but not strictly necessary skills:


Deadline: 5th of August

Main place of work: Trento (Italy). An abroad period at a company or academic institution is mandatory.


Link to the call (go to page 217): http://old.iusspavia.it/documents/20181/0/Research+Programme+SDC+38/11f9a1cd-2c1f-41e2-a834-475dcf376ef3


The position is sponsored by the new National PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate change. Further information about the National PhD in Sustainable Development and Climate change can be found here: https://www.phd-sdc.it/



2) Industrial PhD "Design of a 5G slice for networked music performances" at company Athonet 

The PhD will focus on the design, simulation, and evaluation of a 5G slice for networked music performances in the context of both private and public 5G networks. As mobile networks are developing towards the support of new and augmented ways of interaction (Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality), the corresponding requirements become more and more strict on the communications latency. Indeed, 5G is expected to represent a milestone in such a direction, enabling sub-10ms and 1ms access delay for applications involving human perception or robotic control. Such 5G setup will be implemented in the form of a network slice dedicated to the specific subset of applications requiring very low latency. However, no works in the literature specify the nature and setup of such a network slice. 

Required skills: 
Deadline: 23rd of August.
Main places of work: Vicenza (Italy), Trento (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden)

The PhD will be supervised by the team members of Athonet (https://www.athonet.com/) as well as by researchers of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory of University of Trento https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/

Link to the call (go to page 32): https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/79c1fd23-ddd2-45ba-8de7-03145f2e16bd/Research_topics_description_PNRR_DM_352.pdf


Further information is available at: https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls



3) Industrial PhD "Networked music performance system for high numbers of musicians" at company Maestranze Artistiche

The PhD will focus on the creation of a networked music performance system capable of supporting the collaborative music making of large numbers of musicians.

Required skills:
  • M.Sc. degree in computer science, electronics, mathematics, physics, or related fields
  • Programming 
  • sufficient music knowledge (e.g., proven experience in playing a musical instrument)
  • excellent English skills (read, written, and spoken) 
  • strong self-motivation and independence
Desirable but not strictly necessary skills:
  • knowledge of the JUCE framework
  • Web Audio, 
  • Node.js


Deadline: 23rd of August.
Main place of work: Trento (Italy) and Stockholm (Sweden).

The PhD will be supervised by researchers of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory of University of Trento https://www.cimil.disi.unitn.it/


Link to the call (go to page 52): https://www.unitn.it/alfresco/download/workspace/SpacesStore/79c1fd23-ddd2-45ba-8de7-03145f2e16bd/Research_topics_description_PNRR_DM_352.pdf


Further information is available at: https://www.unitn.it/en/phd-nrrp-calls



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Luca Turchet
Associate Professor
Head of the Creative, Intelligent & Multisensory Interactions Laboratory

Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science
University of Trento
Via Sommarive 9 - 38123 Trento - Italy

Tel: +39 0461 283792