Computer Scientist/Game Developer

Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Jena, Germany

You will become part of an interdisciplinary team and play a vital role in ensuring the success of a Momentum project funded by the VolkswagenStiftung that aims to establish a new paradigm in Virtual Reality (VR) to uncover the social dynamics and anticipatory processes in real-time interactions.

Your responsibilities:

Develop interactive avatars and respective 3D environments for VR research;
Analyse and process kinematic data to create and animate interactive VR avatars;
Help build and run a cutting-edge VR laboratory;
Be involved in developing experiments that allow to examine motor, perceptual and cognitive processes in dyadic, real-time interactions in VR;
Conduct interdisciplinary research to navigate anticipation research to new frontiers;
Help publish research articles in quality international, peer-review journals.

Your profile:

Preferably M.Sc. degree (or equivalent) in computer science, game development or in a related field;
Proficiency with 3D engines (e.g. Unreal Engine, Unity 3D);
Experience with animation software and 3D modelling;
Excellent programming skills;
Prior involvement in research projects is desirable;
Strong interest in running behavioural research in VR;
Good communication skills in English (oral and written);
Scientific enthusiasm and motivation to work within an interdisciplinary research team.

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