The Research Engineering team at Autodesk Research is looking for a passionate and skilled Research Working Student (Intern) to join the team at our Bonn office. A home-based candidate with a 1-2 weekly commute to the Bonn office is also acceptable. The ideal intern will participate in the curation and management of experiential datasets. Such datasets will be used to train models that helps us to predict how humans experience designed environments. The working student will be paid based on their experience level and skill set.
· Aggregate, curate, and standardise trial-level datasets from environmental psychology, focusing on human responses to architectural, interior, and urban spaces (e.g., navigation, comfort, affect, memory, wayfinding, social interaction)
· Identify and collect open-access datasets and published experiments in environmental psychology and spatial experience
· Develop a standardised schema for representing trial-by-trial data in natural language and/or multimodal formats
· Annotate datasets with relevant metadata, like demographics, context, or spatial features
· Write documentation of the work carried out, either as part of an academic publication or for internal communication
· Pursuing a MS or PhD degree in Environmental Psychology, Cognitive Science, Data Science, Behavioural Science or related
· Fast learner, able to easily pick up different new technologies and run with them
· Ability to communicate effectively and work co-operatively
· Excellent communication skills, both oral and written
· Fluent in English
· Experience with Data Science tools and approaches
· Experience with qualitative and quantitative research methods
· Familiarity with programming languages, like Python
