An engineer position is available in our laboratory "Movement disorders and basal ganglia: pathophysiology and experimental therapeutics" headed by Pr M Vidailhet and located in the Brain and Spine Institute, ICM, at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, on the topic of MEG recordings and endogenous brain oscillations.

For at least half of his working time the candidate will work on a study devoted to the pathophysiology of dystonia. In this study we will use a new approach combining (i) recent technical developments of magnetoencephalography (MEG) (i.e reconstruction of deep sources like thalamus and cerebellum and functional connectivity measures between the deep sources and the cortical ones) with (ii) a still -unexplored-in dystonia way of neural communication through the beta and gamma oscillations and (iii) a potential new experimental therapeutics using non invasive transcranial alternative current stimulation to boost endogenous oscillations.

The candidate is expected to have previous experience in the field of MEG recordings (mandatory) and ideally in endogenous brain rhythms recordings (not mandatory).

The work will be carried out in a close collaboration with the PI (Sabine Meunier, MD, PhD, senior researcher INSERM), the MEG department (Nathalie Georges and Denis Schwartz) and the PhD student in charge of the project (Alienor Richard).

The position is for 18 months, the salary is 2200 Euros per month. Contact Dr Sabine Meunier for further information (Sabine.Meunier@free.fr)