✨ PhD position vacancy on urban sound modelling 🏙️🔊
How will future Urban Air Mobility (UAM) vehicles sound and how will UAM be perceived in our cities? If exploring that question excites you, we have an opportunity you’d want to consider.
The purpose of the project is to predict the sound of UAM vehicles in real urban settings. We target to arrive at a prediction model that provides standard noise metrics as well as binaural sound rendering for immersive VR. A key part of this work is validation—combining field measurements in a representative urban environment or at a controlled test facility (like NLR’s DigiCity urban mock-up), with a perceptual VR comparison study as a possible further phase, depending on the candidate’s expertise.
🎧 The outcome of the prediction model is targeted to directly feed into VR platforms such as NLR’s Virtual Community Noise Simulator (VCNS), helping researchers, policymakers, and communities better understand how UAM noise propagates in cities, and supporting perception studies into the effect of UAM sound on citizens.
The position is offered by NLR – Netherlands Aerospace Centre, and it will be a collaboration between NLR and our TU/e Building Acoustics group, as the PhD enrolment is at Eindhoven University of Technology
💡 If this sounds attractive to you or someone you know, check out the vacancy link and reach out!
https://werkenbijnlr.recruitee.com/o/phd-urban-sound-modelling
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