Dear all, FYI. Two positions are available for the Vibrations project, which is a translational project between Theoretical Neuroscience and signal processing on the one hand and clinical practice on the other hand. The objective of the project is to develop tools based on Virtual Brain simulations in order to improve presurgical evaluation of epilepsy. The project is funded jointly by the Agence National de la Recherche (ANR) and the Direction Générale de l'Offre de Santé (DGOS). It is a collaboration between the Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes (Marseille), the Signal and image processing laboratory (Rennes) and the INRIA Sophia-Antipolis. Two positions are opened at the Clinical Neurophysiology of Timone hospital and the TNG group of the INS. Both positions will be in collaboration with the Dynamap team of the INS (resp. CG Bénar).

*A) ENGINEER (30 month, DGOS). Location: Clinical Neurophysiology dep., Timone Hospital, Marseille, under responsibility of F. Bartolomei*

*Task:* The engineer will be in charge of providing tools for clinicians

- define needs of clinicians in term of signal processing and signal modeling set up existing tools in a user-friendly environment, feasibility study develop or implement new signal processing tools (in Anywave software) develop TVB epilepsy interface in collaboration with TVB group

- write user manuals and tutorials

*B) POSTDOC (17 month, ANR). Location: TNG Team, Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes, under responsibility of V. Jirsa*

*Project:* systematic exploration of parameter space under anatomical and functional constraints

- use of functional constraints provided by signal processing (topographies, spike count, graph measures, EI...)

- explore parameters and define the range of plausible solutions, implement and test model comparison framework

- evaluate the feasibility of the inverse problem, in particular the estimation of 'excitability' parameters for delineating the epileptogenic zone

Contacts: fabrice.bartolomei@ap-hm.fr, viktor.jirsa@univ-amu.fr, christian.benar@univ-amu.fr

useful links: http://ins.univ-amu.fr/; http://www.thevirtualbrain.org/tvb/zwei; http://meg.univ-amu.fr/wiki/AnyWavehttp://meg.univ-amu.fr/wiki/AnyWave

Best,

Haiteng

Haiteng Jiang PhD candidate Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Neuronal Oscillations Group Computational Cognitive Neuroscience Lab https://sites.google.com/site/haitengjiang/ https://sites.google.com/site/haitengjiang/