Professor of Practice in Sound in Virtual Reality
Aalto University is a community of bold thinkers where science and art meet 
technology and business. We are committed to identifying and solving grand 
societal challenges and building an innovative future. Aalto University has six 
schools with nearly 20 000 students and more than 400 professors. Our campuses 
are located in Espoo and Helsinki, Finland.

Department of Media and Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics invite 
applications for:

PROFESSOR OF PRACTICE POSITION IN SOUND IN VIRTUAL REALITY

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The position will be filled on the basis of professional, artistic and academic 
merits, and the successful candidate will be appointed for a fixed 5-year term 
with the title of Professor of Practice.

Aalto Professor of Practice system is intended especially for the fields of 
art, design and architecture, and is applied to other fields as well. The 
Professor of Practice position provides departments with the possibility to 
hire highly respected professionals for opening new areas of teaching and 
research/ artistic and professional work. The position also provides 
possibility for re-evaluation and dynamic development of a field.
Professors of Practice are expected to exercise and guide artistic activity and 
education, and/or research. They are also expected to follow the advances of 
their field, to participate in service to the Aalto University community, and 
to take part in societal interaction and international collaboration in their 
field.

Job description
Research
Methods to reproduce, augment and synthesize virtual auditory spatial scenes 
would be developed in collaboration with Prof. Ville Pulkki’s group in the 
department of Signal Processing and Acoustics at the School of Electronical 
Engineering. The group will be working on, for example, fast 
machine-learning-based estimation and rendering of room responses for 
interactive virtual acoustics, on methods to reproduce the spatial distribution 
of virtual sources and on methods to render spatial audio on surfaces of 
virtual objects.

Teaching
A major course about Building Virtual Worlds is being planned by Prof. Lily 
Díaz (Department of Media, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, Aalto 
ARTS), where the students would be taught the state-of-art methods how to build 
interactive virtual realities for arbitrary uses. The professor would have 
major role in developing this cross-school course and in teaching of virtual 
acoustic techniques within it.

Artistic work
An important task would be to actively collaborate with other Aalto ARTS 
researchers, in the Department of Media and elsewhere, to introduce and 
integrate the tools into their research projects. Additionally, the Professor 
will teach students the theories and practical use of audio technologies in 
virtual reality, on such a level that is approachable to relevant MA-level 
students of ARTS. To be able to teach artists in such matters, sensitivity and 
knowledge towards artistic and design practices is highly desirable.

Requirements
Professor of Practice is considered a professor position subject to external 
evaluation. Merits in development of spatial audio technologies will be 
emphasized in the selection process: the applicant is expected to have 
significant achievements that, in terms of qualifications, are comparable to a 
doctoral level degree. A good knowledge of signal processing, psychoacoustics 
and room acoustics is assumed. In addition a good knowledge of contemporary 
artistic and design practices is beneficial, as well as practical experience in 
the fields of sound design and virtual reality. Excellent communication skills 
in English are required.
It is expected that the successful candidate will have broad theoretical and 
practical knowledge and technical digital media skills (including programming) 
that enable them to work successfully within an art and design-based academic 
community. Also the skills in multi-disciplinary education and design are 
relevant for the position and necessary for the development and understanding 
of the field of sound design in virtual reality.
The applicants will be reviewed on the basis of the following areas: audio 
technology, artistic merits, teaching, collaborative skills, and activity  and 
leadership in the artistic or academic community.

Salary and employment
Salary is internationally competitive and Aalto University provides health care 
and retirement benefits.
Finland is a great and safe context for family, offering many excellent 
state-subsidized services, including affordable day care and free schools, 
which are consistently ranked among the best in the world.

The position will commence during 2018.

How to apply
The application process includes two phases. In the first phase the applicants 
are required to submit the following material:

  1.  Motivation letter
  2.  Curriculum vitae
  3.  List of publications (the most important ones to be marked with an 
asterisk)
  4.  Creative portfolio including 5 most significant projects in a single PDF 
file (max. file size 100 MB)
  5.  Brief (max. 1000 words) overview of your ideas regarding the future 
development of the field
  6.  Brief (max. 1000 words) description of teaching experience and 
qualifications.

All application materials should be submitted in English, in pdf format. The 
application materials will not be returned. Aalto University does not accept 
any letters of recommendations during the first phase of the application 
process.
From amongst the applicants in the first phase, Aalto University will select 
those who will be asked to supplement their application materials with e.g. a 
teaching portfolio, and to visit Aalto University on 21 May 2018. Supplemented 
applications are submitted for review by external experts (the second phase of 
the application process).
Please submit your application through the eRecruitment system no later than on 
13 March 2018. The link to the eRecruitment system can be found at the bottom 
of the page.
General instructions for applicants including evaluation criteria, language 
requirements and guidelines for compiling CV are given at 
www.aalto.fi/en/tenure_track/for_applicant<http://www.aalto.fi/en/tenure_track/for_applicant>.

For additional information
please contact Chairman of Departmental Committee, Professor Philip Dean, email 
firstname.lastn...@aalto.fi<mailto:firstname.lastn...@aalto.fi>. In recruitment 
process related questions, you may contact HR Coordinator Ilona Kallio, tel. 
+358 50 524 
0728,firstname.lastn...@aalto.fi<mailto:firstname.lastn...@aalto.fi>.
Aalto University reserves the right for justified reasons to leave the position 
open, to extend the application period and to consider candidates who have not 
submitted applications during the application period.

About Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) & 
Department of Media
The Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (ARTS) is an 
institution of higher education for design, media, architecture, motion 
picture, art education and art. The current key areas of research are design, 
digital media, audiovisual representation, art, visual culture, welfare 
architecture and emerging technologies as well as urban planning and design. 
The school produces specialists and innovators of art, design and architecture 
with strong artistic and technical skills.

The Department of Media http://media.aalto.fi/en/ is an academic community of 
approximately 350 students and 50 faculty members. The department conducts 
research and provides education in bachelor, masters and doctoral programmes 
across a broad range of subjects and themes. The study programmes and research 
of the department are organized within three units: The Media Lab, Visual 
Communication Design, and Photography.

About Aalto University School of Electronical Engineering (ELEC) & Department 
of Signal Processing and Acoustics
The School of Electrical Engineering is one of the six schools of Aalto 
University. Our portfolio covers fields from natural sciences to engineering 
and information sciences. In parallel with basic research, we develop ideas and 
technologies further into innovations and services. We are experts in systems 
science: we develop integrated solutions from care of the elderly to space 
robotics. The school is an international unit with close to 60 professors and 
2000 full-time students, including over 200 doctoral students. Our research 
focuses on major societal issues, such as energy and environment, information 
and communication technologies as well as health and wellbeing. The research 
focus areas are: • Energy and environment • ICT • Micro and nanotechnology • 
Health and wellbeing We have deep industry-academia relationships both in 
research and teaching.

The Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics (SPA) http://spa.aalto.fi/en/ 
consists of four focus areas centered on acoustics and audio signal processing, 
measurement science and technology, signal processing, and speech and language 
technology that all share a common fundamental theoretical and methodological 
background in electrical engineering, physics, and applied mathematics. The 
academic staff comprises 10 tenured or tenure track professors and approx. 70 
other research personnel, including one current and one former Academy 
Professor, 3 IEEE Fellows, 2 Fellows of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), 
and a notable number of researchers who have received highly competitive career 
advancement funding from the Academy of Finland or ERC. The unit has a strong 
emphasis on basic and applied research and researcher training, as reflected by 
Aalto ICT field’s highest number of peer-reviewed publications, citations, and 
number of completed doctoral degrees when normalized by the total income or 
personnel headcount of the unit.

About Helsinki
The greater Helsinki region is a world-class information technology complex, 
attracting leading scientists and researchers in various fields of computer 
science. As a living and working environment, Finland consistently ranks high 
in quality of life, and Helsinki, the capital of Finland, is regularly ranked 
as one of the most livable cities in the world.

Living up to our values
As a community of high ethics we want to assure the highest international 
standard in research, education and teaching. We expect all our community 
members to respect Aalto values and follow the ethical principles of fair play 
and integrity in all our activities and the behaviour that we expect from each 
other. The Aalto University Code of Conduct is applicable to all Aalto 
community members and it clarifies the values that guide us.

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Prof. Vesa Valimaki, Vice Dean for Research
Aalto University
School of Electrical Engineering
Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics
P.O. Box 13300, FI-00076 AALTO
Espoo, Finland
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