Research Associate (m­­/­­f­­/­­x)

Tasks: The successful applicant will work together with an interdisciplinary and international team investigating the topic of copresence in social interactions at a distance. In this context, the problem of precise and reliable network synchronization becomes pivotal to ensure a natural social interaction via the communication network. Technically this is realized via quantum network synchronization. Empirical work will include online questionnaires, lab-based interventions making use of a combination of virtual reality, psychophysics, subjective reports and neuroimaging (e.g. FNIRS). The project will make use of state-of-the-art affective haptic technologies and hyperscanning to identify optimal criteria for remote social interactions, with multimodal measures of interpersonal synchrony and coupling. These results will also give guidelines on how to design the quantum synchronization protocols for enabling copresence in future 6G-quantum networks. Successful results will be published in the form of journal articles and conference proceedings. Significant findings will be reported in books and monographs.