PhD Candidate: NeuroAI for Auditory Neuroscience

Maastricht University; Maastricht; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Gross monthly salary €3,204–€4,051

Holiday allowance 8%

Year-end bonus 8.3%

29 vacation days

Flexible working hours

Home office allowance

Pension ABP

Job summary

Maastricht University seeks a PhD Candidate in NeuroAI for Auditory Neuroscience to investigate how the brain transforms natural sounds into representations using state-of-the-art AI models. The project is part of NASCE and collaborates with ARCHIE lab under Prof. Elia Formisano.

You will bridge human neuroimaging and computational modelling, collecting high-field fMRI data and developing AI/NeuroAI approaches to compare brain and machine representations. Start date flexible; deadline Sep 2026.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree in cognitive or computational neuroscience, AI, CS, biomedical engineering or related quantitative field.
• Experience in human neuroimaging or AI/machine learning/NeuroAI is required.
• Strong programming skills, Python preferred, ability to write/adapt code for data processing and visualization.
• English proficiency at CEFR C1 or higher.

Responsibilities

• Acquire and analyse high-field neuroimaging data related to natural sound perception.
• Develop and apply AI/NeuroAI models including deep networks for auditory processing.
• Relate AI representations to behavioural and brain data using multivariate and representational modelling.
• Contribute to experimental design and execution in neuroimaging and behaviour tasks.
• Publish findings in peer-reviewed journals and present at international conferences.
• Participate in open and reproducible research through well-documented pipelines and data products.
• Possibly contribute up to 0.1 FTE to teaching or supervision at Maastricht University.

Skills

Cognition & neuroscience

AI basics

Python programming

Statistics & data analysis

English proficiency

Education

Master’s in cognitive/neuroscience

Master’s in AI/CS

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Maastricht University seeks a PhD Candidate in NeuroAI for Auditory Neuroscience to investigate how the brain transforms natural sounds into representations using state-of-the-art AI models. The project is part of NASCE and collaborates with ARCHIE lab under Prof. Elia Formisano.

You will bridge human neuroimaging and computational modelling, collecting high-field fMRI data and developing AI/NeuroAI approaches to compare brain and machine representations. Start date flexible; deadline Sep 2026.