Postdoctoral Fellow: Bioacoustics & Drone Noise Impact

Salford; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Excellent pension scheme

32 days leave + holidays

Training & development opportunities

Job summary

University of Salford invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to join the EU-funded TUNED project (Toolkit for Noise and Societal Impact Assessment of U-Space-Enabled Drone Operations). The successful candidate will study bird responses to drone noise, design field experiments, analyze passive acoustic data and develop open-source analytical pipelines.

You will work within the Acoustics Innovation Institute and ERIC, contribute to WP6 on Noise Impacts on Wildlife, and collaborate with

Qualifications

• PhD (or nearing completion) in bioacoustics, ecology, zoology or related discipline.
• Experience with collecting and analysing passive acoustic data.
• Expertise in experimental design and ecological field work.
• Experience annotating bioacoustic recordings and using species classification tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and conduct field experiments to investigate bird responses to noise.
• Collect, manage and analyse passive acoustic data.
• Apply automated tools to annotate and classify bioacoustic data.
• Develop open-source analytical pipelines.
• Develop robust metrics to model noise exposure risk for birds.

Skills

Bioacoustics

Ecological field work

Data analysis

Bioacoustic annotation

Species classification tools

Education

PhD in bioacoustics, ecology, zoology or related discipline

Tools

Passive acoustic data tools

Bioacoustic annotation software

Species classification tools

Job description

University of Salford invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher to join the EU-funded TUNED project (Toolkit for Noise and Societal Impact Assessment of U-Space-Enabled Drone Operations). The successful candidate will study bird responses to drone noise, design field experiments, analyze passive acoustic data and develop open-source analytical pipelines.

You will work within the Acoustics Innovation Institute and ERIC, contribute to WP6 on Noise Impacts on Wildlife, and collaborate with