Postdoc Opportunities in Music

The Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz (Max Planck Institute) is inviting applications for fully funded postdoctoral fellowships in the collaborative research project Connected Teams , running from 2027 to 2029. The fellowship supports collaborative, transcultural research at the intersection of art history, ecology, and digital transformations . Placements are available through partner institutions in India, Colombia, and Italy, offering an international research environment focused on Globa...

UNSW is advertising a Postdoctoral Fellow position on the ARC Discovery Project Artists and Generative AI: Copyright and Private Regulation of Creativity . The role is based at the UNSW Paddington Campus, Sydney, NSW, Australia , and is a full-time fixed-term appointment from May 2027 until 3 November 2028 . The successful candidate will join a project that examines generative AI , AI media generation, system behaviour, and content or “inspiration” attribution. The work involves systematic compu...

Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellowship in Visual Culture at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Caltech’s Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences is inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral teaching fellowship in Visual Culture , beginning in time for Caltech’s fall term 2027. The position is especially suited to scholars working at the intersection of visual culture and the environment , with preference for candidates whose research could benefit from access to co...

Senior Research Fellow (Oberassistenz) in Cultural Studies and European Ethnology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. This is a postdoctoral opening (60%) starting in the spring semester of 2027, with the appointment beginning on 1.2.2027. The post is designed for researchers aiming to complete a habilitation while contributing to a dynamic department working across culture, everyday life, politics, globalization, migration, mobility, anthropology of knowledge, science and technology studie...

Nottingham Trent University is recruiting two fixed-term researchers for the Eco-SEv project in ecosystem acoustics , a government-funded initiative focused on next-generation biodiversity monitoring technologies. The roles are based in the School of Animal, Rural and Environmental Sciences at Nottingham Trent University and involve work on acoustic monitoring, biodiversity assessment, and ecosystem health across agricultural, forestry, conservation, and natural environments. The project uses au...

The University of Connecticut is advertising a Postdoctoral Research Associate position at UConn Storrs in the Physiological Acoustics Lab . The project sits at the intersection of systems neuroscience , computational neuroscience , Biomedical Engineering , Electrical Engineering , and Psychology , with a strong focus on misophonia —a disorder involving adverse emotional reactions to specific sounds or auditory triggers. The successful candidate will lead research aimed at developing computation...

The Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (IKGA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences is offering a full-time postdoctoral position in the ERC-funded project FOUNT, “The Narrative Foundations of Tibetan Buddhist Culture” . The project is based in Vienna, Austria, and the successful applicant is expected to take up residence in or near the city. The postdoc will contribute to research on the development of the Tibetan Buddhist cult of the bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara during the...

Postdoctoral position at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences (IE CAS), Prague/Brno, Czechia. This is a full-time postdoctoral researcher opening in one of five research departments: Critical Heritage Studies, Ecological Anthropology, Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology, Memory Studies, or Mobility and Migration . The successful candidate will develop an independent research agenda aligned with the department’s broader aims. Research areas / keywords: ethnology, anthropolo...

The Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences is offering a two-year, full-time postdoctoral position within the ERC StG 2025 project QPROJECT – Quantitative projection problems in geometric measure theory , led by Dr. Damian Dąbrowski. The research project focuses on the properties of orthogonal and radial projections from the perspective of geometric measure theory. The advertised postdoctoral role is intended for a researcher with a strong mathematical background and interest...