Recruitment for some of the PhDs is now open: see below! For the others, please pre-register your interest, to be alerted when new PhD opportunities appear.

  • 10 positions available, funded by the EU

  • In The Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, and the UK

  • work on your project in teamwork with experts in both AI and ecology/zoology

  • collaborate with project partners in other European institutions, including extended research visits for in-depth collaborations

  • PhDs are planned to begin in early 2024

  • The funded PhDs will run for 3 to 4 years

Open PhD positions

End-to-end bioacoustic systems for monitoring wildlife populations and ecosystems

University College London, UK

Primary supervisor: Prof Kate Jones
Deadline: 30th November 2023

Using sounds to estimate breeding and non-breeding population of a species

University of South Bohemia, Czechia

Primary supervisor: Dr Pavel Linhart
Deadline: 12th November 2023 Closed

Identifying unknown species and unknown sounds using machine learning

Naturalis Biodiversity Centre, The Netherlands

Primary supervisor: Dr Dan Stowell
Deadline: 16th October 2023 Closed

Human-in-the-loop AI for acoustic event detection and classification

Tampere University, Finland

Primary supervisor: Prof Tuomas Virtanen
Deadline: 17th October2023 Closed

Massively multi-task deep learning for wildlife sound monitoring

Tilburg University, The Netherlands

Primary supervisor: Dr Dan Stowell
Deadline: 16th October 2023 Closed

Yellowhammer – individual acoustic monitoring to study song culture evolution within and between dialect areas

Charles University, Czechia

Primary Supervisor: Dr Tereza Petruskova
Deadline: 30th October 2023 Closed

Distributed sound source localisation and separation for wireless microphone networks consisting of two-microphone nodes

KU Leuven, Belgium

Primary supervisors: Dr Randall Ali and Prof Toon van Waterschoot
Deadline: 31st October 2023 Closed

AI-enhanced sound event localisation and detection in microphone arrays

Sorama BV, The Netherlands

Primary supervisor: Dr Jin-Jack Tan
Deadline: 15th October 2023 Closed

Bioacoustic AI on a batteryless autonomous sensor

CNRS Nantes, France

Primary supervisor: Dr Vincent Lostanlen
Deadline: 3rd October 2023 Closed

Vocal interactions in animal groups

Max Planck Institute for Animal Behaviour, Germany.

Primary supervisor: Dr Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin
Deadline: 31st October 2023 Closed

A unique combination of animal sounds, behavior, ecology and AI

Some of the PhD projects focus on developing AI/signal processing algorithms. Some of the PhD projects focus on ecological questions or animal behaviour. The animals of interest include birds, bats, hyenas and insects.

For each PhD, you apply directly to the host university/institution, using the links above. Note that the application deadlines vary per institution.

The PhDs are planned to begin in early 2024 (Feb–Mar). The funded PhDs will run for 3 years, or up to 4 years in some countries according to local PhD requirements.

Pre-register for a PhD position