Post-doctoral and PhD positions in Cognitive Neuroscience and
Psychology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow
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The Faculty of Psychology, Higher School of Economics (HSE, Moscow) is
pleased to announce a number of new post-doctoral and PhD posts at
Cognitive Control, Communication and Perception Laboratory
(http://www.hse.ru/en/cdm-centre/CCCP). The post holders will have an
advantage of being able to further define and expand the laboratoryâs
research programme. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
neural dynamics of language comprehension and production, automaticity
and top-down control in communication, sensory-motor integration in
cognitive functions, embodied cognition, neurocognitive bases of
numeracy, interactions between domain-specific and domain-general
cognitive systems, neurobiological mechanisms of language acquisition,
studies of communication deficits (e.g. aphasia) etc.
The laboratory is a structural part of the HSEâs Centre for Cognition
& Decision Making (http://www.hse.ru/en/cdm-centre) with ample
collaboration opportunities within the Centre with other research
groups, both within Russia and internationally. Research facilities
include multi-channel EEG, navigated TMS-EEG, behavioural and
eye-tracking equipment, as well as local access to MEG, fMRI and a range
of neurological populations. This new international lab will operate in
tight collaboration with the Centre of Functionally Integrative
Neuroscience at Aarhus University (Denmark), Psychology Department at
Northumbria University Newcastle (UK), and other international
collaborators.
The HSE is a young, dynamic and fast-growing research-intensive
university providing unique research opportunities (http://hse.ru/en,Âhttp://psy.hse.ru/en). The Faculty of Psychology is committed to
developing various areas of modern experimental psychology and, most
crucially, Cognitive Neuroscience. Working conditions:
- Access to multimodal neuroimaging facilities (brain-navigated TMS,
multi-channel EGG, MEG, eye-tracking, etc. http://psy.hse.ru/en/res-center)
- Internationally competitive salary, 13% flat income tax rate and other
benefits
- Generous travel support and research grants provided by the
Universityâs Centre for Advanced Studies (www.cas.hse.ru
<http://www.cas.hse.ru/>)
- Low teaching load, minimal administrative service required
- Heavy emphasis on high quality research
Requirements
For post-doc posts:
- Ph.D. in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, language sciences or
related fields
- Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)
- Demonstrated ability and high motivation to conduct high-quality
research publishable in quality international peer-reviewed journals
For PhD students:
- Master or similar degree in psychology, cognitive neuroscience,
language sciences or related fields
- Fluent English (knowledge of Russian is not required)
- High motivation to conduct high-quality interdisciplinary research in
international settings
Staff appointments are made for an initial 2,5-year period. Upon
successful completion of an interim review contracts are normally
extended for three more years, ultimately leading up to the tenure
review. PhD posts are funded for a fixed term of 3 years. Please provide
your CV, a minimum of 2 recommendation letters, a statement of research
interest, and an example of a recent research paper. All materials
should be addressed to CCCPGroup(a)hse.ru <mailto:CCCPGroup@hse.ru> and
be submitted by December 3, 2014. Note that only shortlisted candidates
will be notified of the selection process outcome.
If you have any further questions, please contact Dr Victoria Moiseeva
at vmoiseeva(a)hse.ru <mailto:vmoiseeva@hse.ru>
Dear colleagues (with apologies for cross-posting)
The Wellcome Trust has recently invested £1M at the University of
Exeter, which alongside substantial institutional matched-funding will
be used to establish the Centre for Biomedical Modelling and Analysis.
The first part of this investment will be the recruitment of 5
outstanding research fellows whose expertise spans one or more of the
following key areas:
- spatio-temporal modelling,
- complex networks,
- algorithm design and parallel architectures,
- data analytics and visualisation,
- optical microscopy and image analysis,
- high throughput –omics,
- causal modelling of observational data and uncertainty quantification.
For full details of the Fellowships and how to apply, please visit the
following advert:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AJZ675/research-fellows/
All the best
John
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John R. Terry
Professor of Biomedical Modelling
Director of Research (Mathematics and Computer Science)
College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences
University of Exeter
Exeter, Devon
EX4 4QF, UK
tel: +44 (0) 1392 725 274
email: j.terry(a)exeter.ac.uk <mailto:j.terry@exeter.ac.uk>
web: http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/mathematics/staff/jt354
A 4 year post-doctoral research associate position is available to work
on a European Council-funded project that will use psychophysics, eye
tracking and EEG to investigate auditory attention. We aim to understand
the brain mechanisms involved in selective attention, and create a
brain-machine interface able to identify listeners attentional focus in
real time. This research program is part of an international project
(“Cognitively controlled Hearing Aid”) which includes partners in ENS,
France (Shihab Shamma, Alain de Cheveigne, Daniel Pressnitzer), DTU,
Denmark (Torsten Dau), UZH, Switzerland (Shih-Chii Liu) and Oticon
(Thomas Lunner) .
You will be supervised by Dr Maria Chait and based at the UCL Ear
Institute (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab).
*Salary (inclusive of London allowance)*£33,353 - £37,152 per annum
Applicants should hold a PhD degree (or equivalent)^in an engineering or
Neuroscience-related subject and have substantial experience in digital
signal processing and computer programming. Previous experience with
auditory research and/or functional brain imaging is desirable.
*For an informal discussion please contact Dr. Maria Chait
(m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>). Application should be
made via the UCL website: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/
(**Ref:1443980). Application deadline: 07 Dec 2014. Start date: Early
2015.***
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The UCL Ear Institute provides state-of-the-art research facilities
across a wide range of disciplines and is one of the foremost centres
for hearing, speech and language-related research within Europe.
Maria Chait PhD
m.chait(a)ucl.ac.uk <mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk>
Reader in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience
Lab site: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab/
UCL Ear Institute
332 Gray's Inn Road
London WC1X 8EE
Applications are invited for PhD candidates to contribute substantially
to the German-Japanese cooperation project â??Testing computational
models of learning from social, real, and fictive feedback in human and
nonhuman primatesâ??, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and
the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST). Principal investigators:
Prof. Dr. Markus Ullsperger (OvGU Magdeburg) and Prof. Dr. Masaki Isoda
(Kansai Medical University, Osaka). The collaboration of both research
groups shall be fostered by research visits in the partner labs.
The project is embedded in Prof. Ullspergerâ??s labâ??s general research
line. The team is multidisciplinary and combines a broad variety of
cognitive neuroscience methods. The Department of Neuropsychology and
Magdeburg in general offer cognitive neuroscientists a unique,
multidisciplinary working and learning environment with opportunities
for developing expertise in a diversity of research areas and
techniques. Four MRI scanners (7T, 3T), several (MR-compatible) EEG
systems, an MEG system, TMS and high-performance computational
facilities are available.
Please find complete description here:
http://www.uni-magdeburg.de/unimagdeburg_media/Stellenausschreibungen/2014/…
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*Dr. Roland Nigbur (Dipl.-Psych.)*
Institut für Psychologie II / Neuropsychologie
Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
Universitätsplatz 2, G24-Raum 004
39106 Magdeburg
Tel.: +49 (0)391 67 18698
Fax: +49 (0)391 67 11947
Post doc position available in neuroergonomics. Please see the job
description at:
https://jobs.gmu.edu/postings/34303
for more details or contact Carryl Baldwin at the address below.
Carryl Baldwin, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Human Factors and Applied Cognition
Associate Chair of Undergraduate Programs
Department of Psychology, MS 3 F5
David King Hall, Room 2062
George Mason University
Fairfax, VAÂ 22030
(703) 993-4653
cbaldwi4(a)gmu.edu <mailto:cbaldwi4@gmu.edu>
http://psychology.gmu.edu/people/cbaldwi4
Postdoctoral Fellowship Opening in Functional Neuroimaging, Development and ADHD
We are recruiting for a postdoctoral fellow with expertise in functional brain imaging in the attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) group at the University of California, Davis MIND Institute. The MIND Institute is located on the medical school campus in Sacramento, CA. The position is available starting December 1, 2014.
The focus of the ADHD program is to improve the lives of children, teens and adults who experience severe problems in attention, self-control or learning. While much of our work is in ADHD, we also study typical brain development, autism, fragile X, substance use disorders and general functioning in relationship to reward
sensitivity.
This position is based at UC Davis, however, it is jointly supervised by Dr. Samuel McClure, from the Decision Neuroscience Laboratory, at Stanford University along
with Drs. Catherine Fassbender and Julie Schweitzer at UC Davis.
The successful candidate will work on existing and new studies investigating the behavioral and neural correlates of cognitive and reward processing, including the
developmental trajectories of these constructs in children, adolescents and adults with ADHD compared to typically developing individuals. In our laboratory we are
also interested in the functional outcomes in individuals with ADHD (i.e. educational and/or occupational success). The laboratory draws on multiple methods of inquiry including clinical interviews, fMRI, psychophysiological measures, questionnaires and behavior.
The position entails the collection and analysis of fMRI. physiological and behavioral data, preparing the data for publication and presentation at research conferences as well as writing grants and research papers. Additional opportunities such as acquiring and analyzing electrophysiological data are also available but not necessary for the position. Other duties will include gathering questionnaire data and supervising research assistants and graduate and undergraduate students.
Qualifications for this position include a Ph.D. in psychology, neuroscience, or a related field; experience with fMRI acquisition and analysis; competent experimental and statistical skills; good interpersonal skills, the ability to work well in a team and to interact with and train other research personnel and the ability to creatively problem solve and trouble shoot technical issues. Experience with neuroimaging software programs (AFNI, FSL, MATLAB, SPM, or other relevant programs), programming tasks (E-prime, Presentation), and statistical analysis (SPM, SAS) is highly desired. Computer programming skills are also desired but not required for the position.
Please address questions or send a letter of research interests, a CV and contact information for three references to Dr. Julie Schweitzer at Julie.schweitzer(a)ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
Dear Users
This afternoon (from 4 pm in B020) Alex Levine will give a talk on "The
neural basis of visual performance advantage in the deaf". This project
was offered as an MSc CN research project last year by Heidi Baseler.
Alex graduated from the MSc CN course and is now a 2nd year PhD student
in the Department.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after
the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
The Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre, University of
Nottingham is seeking to recruit two Research Associate/Fellows in the
field of magnetoencephalography (MEG). Successful candidates will work
on developing and applying novel ways to measure and understand the
intrinsic modes of functional coupling between functionally specific
brain regions. Specifically, areas of development will include: i) New
ways to model neural oscillations in local circuits; ii) Novel methods
to characterize long range linear and non-linear coupling and iii)
Measurement of dynamic changes in functional connectivity during basic
sensory and cognitive tasks. In addition, since electrophysiological
activity and connectivity is mediated by neurochemistry, successful
candidates will also be involved in performing parallel ultra-high field
(7T) magnetic resonance spectroscopy (^1 H and ^13 C) experiments in
order to relate the concentration of cortical neurotransmitters
(glutamate/GABA) to electrophysiological metrics in MEG. Finally these
metrics will be applied in schizophrenia in order to gain new insight
into how impaired network activity and connectivity underlies core symptoms.
The University of Nottingham has been at the forefront of imaging since
the introduction of MRI in the 1970’s. Indeed a rich history of novel
developments resulted in the award of a Nobel Prize to Sir Peter
Mansfield in 2003. The Sir Peter Mansfield Magnetic Resonance Centre
(SPMMRC), now headed by Prof. Peter Morris, remains at the forefront of
neuroimaging development with significant contributions in the fields of
MRI, MEG, multi-modal imaging, and simultaneous EEG/fMRI. The Centre is
equipped with a 275 channel MEG, 7T, 3T and 1.5T MR systems as well as
MR compatible 64 channel EEG. In addition, a £9m investment by the
Medical Research Council (announced in October 2014) will see upgrades
to 7T and MEG as well as the introduction of wide bore 3T and upright
MRI systems, to begin in 2015.
Candidates should have a PhD (or equivalent) or be nearing completion in
neuroimaging and strong interest/experience in developing methods plus
an undergraduate degree in Physics, Engineering, Mathematics or
appropriately related discipline.
There are two fixed term posts available, one for two years and one for
three years duration from 1 January 2015.
Informal enquiries may be addressed to Dr Matt Brookes, tel: 0115
9515188 or email matthew.brookes(a)nottingham.ac.uk
<mailto:matthew.brookes@nottingham.ac.uk>.
Dear Users
This Thursday (from 4 pm in B020) Alex Levine will give a talk on "The
neural basis of visual performance advantage in the deaf". This project
was offered as an MSc CN research project last year by Heidi Baseler.
Alex graduated from the MSc CN course and is now a 2nd year PhD student
in the Department.
Everyone is welcome to attend and refreshments will be available after
the talk.
Best wishes
Rebecca
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Dr. Rebecca E. Millman
Science Liaison Officer
York Neuroimaging Centre
The Biocentre
York Science Park
Heslington
YO10 5DG
Tel: +44 (0) 1904 567614
Fax: +44 (0) 1904 435356
*Call for a 2-year postdoctoral position*
*Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 7309 Aix-Marseille Université / CNRS)*
*Aix-en-Provence, France*
Applications are invited for a postdoctoral research fellow position in
the Laboratoire Parole et Langage in Aix-en-Provence, France
(http://www.lpl-aix.fr/). The position is funded by The French National
Research Agency (ANR). The successful candidate will work on a project
investigating the interaction between spoken and written language during
reading and speech processing in normal population. The main objective
is to characterize the relation between these two language systems in
both cognitive and neural aspects using different techniques (behavioral
measures, fMRI, TMS, EEG).
Applicants with a Ph.D. in neuro-linguistics, psycholinguistics,
cognitive science or a related field will be considered. Applicants must
have experience in functional MRI (experimental design, data
acquisition, preprocessing, analysis) and relevant programming skills
(e.g., Matlab, Python, R). Experience with TMS and/or EEG is a plus.
Laboratoire Parole and Language is located in the historic center of
Aix-en-Provence, France. It is one of the main partners of the Brain &
Language Research Institute, Laboratoire d’Excellence
(http://www.blri.fr/) that gathers together researchers from different
disciplines in order to develop new models and techniques for the
description of language processing and its neural basis. In
collaboration with several research centers in Aix-en-Provence and
Marseille, we provide access to several brain imaging techniques (fMRI,
EEG systems with 64 and 256 electrodes, TMS with neuro-navigator, MEG).
To apply please submit a curriculum vitae, description of research
experience, a statement of goals and interests and 2 letters of
recommendation.
*Duration*: 2 years (full-time)
*Salary*: 2000 € net/month
*Application deadline*: 2014, November 20^th
*Starting date*: from 2015, January 15^th (to be negotiated)
For further information and application, please contact: Chotiga
Pattamadilok (chotiga.pattamadilok(at)lpl-aix.fr <http://lpl-aix.fr>).
Opportunity to organize interviews with Skype.
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Chotiga Pattamadilok
CNRS Research Scientist
Laboratoire Parole & Langage
5 avenue Pasteur
BP 80975
13604 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 1, France
http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/
Tel: +33 4 13 55 27 01
Fax: +33 4 13 55 37 44
