FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY
Program: Echolocation in Bats and Toothed Whales
Entity: Aarhus University
Location: Denmark
Funding: Available
Deadline: May 1, 2025
Description:
Echolocating bats & toothed whales use active sensing with sound to detect prey & navigate under conditions of poor lighting. As part of the newly founded Center for Active Sensing with Sound at Aarhus University we hereby post 2 fully funded PhD positions to do research on bat & toothed whale echolocation. Successful candidates will be using small acoustic tags to study how echolocating animals detect, track & catch small evasive prey in the wild, & will combine such data with lab experiments to understand how echolocation of prey is affected by interference from clutter, noise & conspecifics in complex & dynamic habitats. The candidates will employ a highly interdisciplinary approach & exploit the strong synergy between lab & field studies to understand the functional underpinnings of how small predators in air & large predators in water can hunt with sound.
Qualifications:
-Applicants must have a relevant master’s degree in biology, engineering or physics with experience in areas including animal physiology, acoustics, biologging, signal processing & statistics.
-Field experience and/or experience with trained animals are advantageous.
-We seek ambitious, independent & skilled candidates who can play active scientific & social roles in a diverse, international lab setting.
-Strong English communication skills orally & in writing are mandatory, & experience with programming in Matlab or Python is highly advantageous.
For more information:
https://lnkd.in/dPk4cS38
