Research-assistant: project analysis of teamwork operating room

Research-assistant: project on analysis of teamwork in the operating room

Join to apply for the Research-assistant: project on analysis of teamwork in the operating room role at University of Bern International

We are seeking a motivated student to assist with our research on teamwork in the operating room, specifically on the detection of stress and emotional events during surgical procedures, based on video and audio recordings. The employment is limited until 01.09.2026. Start: 01.03.2026. Position is 30‑40% part‑time.

• Preprocess and clean audio recordings (denoising, segmentation)
• Apply automatic speech recognition (ASR) and speaker diarization (e.g., Whisper)
• Extract acoustic and linguistic features from audio
• Develop and evaluate machine learning models for emotion and stress detection
• Visualise results for publication in journals

• Solid programming skills in Python (numpy, pandas, scikit‑learn)
• Basic experience with audio or speech processing (librosa, pyannotate)
• Basic understanding of natural language processing (spaCy, stanza)

• Intrinsic motivation to work in a multidisciplinary project
• Capacity to communicate with the research team

• Diverse and engaging responsibilities
• Contribution to an innovative research project using real surgical data
• Close cooperation with the research team
• Joint supervision from surgeons, psychologists, and data scientists

Please send your application documents (CV, cover letter, and relevant certificates) to lilien.schewski by January 24th.