PhD studentships in Neurobiology in Strasbourg, Freiburg i. Br., Amsterdam, Basel, Bangalore and Jerusalem

The Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Program "NeuroTime - Neural Processing on Time" is inviting
applications for fully funded 4-year joint PhD studentships between 6 Universities (Strasbourg, Freiburg i. Br., Amsterdam, Basel, Bangalore and Jerusalem) and 2 Associated Partners (IHD and Neurex), coordinated by the University of Strasbourg. in the field of Neurobiology.

The objective of NeuroTime is to provide PhD students with a top quality international training program in multidisplinary neuroscience that will contribute through the creation of a 'European Higher Education Area' in investigating a process lying at the heart of brain function & dysfunction: processing of time.

The training provided by our program integrates developmental, molecular, cellular & behavioral neuroscience, chronobiology, computational neuroscience & neurotechnology.

The projects are collaborative and typically involve two of the six above institutes and will require some travel.

Students should have a solid background in biology, especially neuroscience (on a master level or equivalent). An excellent academic record, documented interest in research and fluency in English are required.

If you are interested, go to http://www.neurotime-erasmus.org
Deadline for applications: January 15, 2012.

If you have questions regarding the program and applications, you can contact us at ntadmin@unistra.fr

Post Doc Position available in Brain-Machine Interfacing

We are seeking outstanding post doc candidates for research in motor control, brain-machine interfaces, and neuroprosthetics. Ideal candidates will have experience in neural recording and signal processing and proficiency in programming (Matlab experience is ideal). A PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Computer Engineering or Neurosciences is preferred but other applicants will be considered.

This is an excellent postdoc opportunity for someone wanting to conduct experiments using intracortical unit activity, local field potentials, and regional field potentials (from microECoG) for control of a virtual upper-limb neuroprosthesis. Design of adaptive decoding systems is a major focus of this lab. Opportunities for expansion into Parkinsons/DBS work is also available for the right motivated person.

Candidates should submit a curriculum vitae and a brief statement of research experience and interests to Dr. Dawn Taylor at dxt42@case.edu.

Cleveland Clinic is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action Employer

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Dawn M. Taylor, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience, Cleveland Clinic
Researcher Scientist, Cleveland VA Medical Center, Functional Electrical Stimulation Center
Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering & of Molecular Medicine, Case Western Reserve University

The Cleveland Clinic 
Lerner Research Institute
9500 Euclid Ave. / NC30 
Cleveland, OH 44195  
email: dxt42@case.edu or taylord8@ccf.org
Phone: (216) 636-0140
Fax: (216) 778-4259

PhD studentships at the University of Sussex (application deadline: 14 February 2012)

The School of Engineering and Informatics, University of Sussex, UK, is offering up to 12 funded doctoral studentships for entry in 2012 (see application details below).

The Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems research theme in the Informatics department involves a strong (computational) neuroscience component with five faculty members and a thriving community of more than 10 postdocs and 20 doctoral students, inhabiting newly refurbished dedicated space at the heart of the Sussex campus. The group has strong active interdisciplinary connections with the Schools of Life Sciences, Psychology, Mathematics and Physics, and the Brighton and Sussex Medical School (co-supervisory arrangements are possible).

Luc Berthouze: motor development, coordination, oscillations, synchronisation, long-range temporal correlations, criticality, analysis of physiological time series (EEG, EMG, MEG, kinematics).
See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/lb203/; informal enquiries to L.Berthouze-at-sussex.ac.uk.

Phil Husbands: bio-inspired neural systems for embodied (robotic) adaptive behaviour; neuromodulation, reconfiguration and multi-functionality; modelling neural mechanism underlying adaptive behaviour; real and artificial evolution of neural systems.
See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/philh/, informal inquiries to philh-at-sussex.ac.uk

Thomas Nowotny: Computational neuroscience of olfaction, machine learning in chemical sensing, hybrid computer-neuronal systems ("dynamic clamp"), accurate models of nonlinear dynamics of neurons (systems identification problems), GPU computing for neuronal networks.
See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/tn41/, informal inquiries to t.nowotny-at-sussex.ac.uk.

Andrew Philippides: Visual navigation in insects and robots, neuromodulation, computational neuroethology, autonomous robotics and adaptive behaviour, image processing for biomedical applications and evolutionary computation for real-world applications.
See http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Users/andrewop/, informal inquiries to: andrewop-at-sussex.ac.uk

Anil Seth: consciousness science, causality analysis of neural time series (M/EEG, fMRI, spike trains, etc), large-scale neural network modelling, predictive coding, synaesthesia.
See www.anilseth.com and www.sussex.ac.uk/sackler/; informal enquiries to a.k.seth-at-sussex.ac.uk.


Students with interest in any of those research areas are strongly encouraged to apply.


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Doctoral Studentships

School of Engineering and Informatics
University of Sussex

Up to 12 funded Doctoral Studentships (2012 entry).

The School of Engineering and Informatics invites applications for Doctoral studentships.  At least three, and up to six, will be awarded in the Department of Engineering and Design.  At least three and up to six will be awarded in the Department of Informatics.

The studentships in Engineering may be in any of the Department’s three research areas:
       • Biomedical Engineering
       • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
       • Mechanical Engineering
For further details see the Department’s research web pages:
           http://www.sussex.ac.uk/engineering/research

The studentships in Informatics may be in any of the Department’s four research areas.
·       Cognitive and Language Processing Systems
·       Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems
·       Foundations of Software Systems
·       Interactive Systems
For further details see the Department’s research web pages:
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/research

Applicants with research interests that span both Departments are particularly welcome.

Studentships will normally include a three-year stipend at standard postgraduate rates (currently £13,590 per annum).  Other fee and stipend arrangements are negotiable depending on the individual circumstances of applicants (e.g., to augment partial awards or funds from elsewhere).  Recipients of studentships will be required to work closely with academic staff on standard teaching duties for a small proportion of their time.

Applicants should have at least a 2:1 first degree relevant to their field of study.

For further information about the Departments, their specific application requirements and contact details for enquiries go to:
           http://www.sussex.ac.uk/engineering/ or
           http://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/

Closing date is 14 February 2012.  Early application is encouraged.

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Dr Luc Berthouze, Senior Lecturer
Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics (CCNR)
School of Informatics
University of Sussex
Brighton BN1 9QH, UK
Tel: +44 1273 877206   Fax: +44 1273 877873

Neuroengineering faculty position at Rice University

Dear Colleagues,

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice
University currently has an position for new faculty at the
intersection of embedded hardware, sensors, signal processing, and
neuroengineering. Specific areas of interest include interfaces at the
device, circuit, and systems levels; neural signal processing; and
brain-computer interfaces. While computational neuroscientists are not
specifically the target of the search, their applications are
encouraged. The closing date is February 15, 2012.

Please refer to the website: http://facultyapps.ece.rice.edu for more
information or to submit an application.

Faculty Position in Cognitive Psychology at University of California, Riverside

The Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, invites
applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Cognitive
Psychology to start July 1, 2012.  We seek applicants whose research
examines the cognitive neuroscience of human learning and memory. The
ideal candidate will contribute to our emerging emphasis in
experience-dependent change. Applicants should demonstrate a record of
research excellence using methodological approaches involving human
behavior, cognitive neuroscience, and/or computational modeling.
Individuals with interdisciplinary interests are encouraged to apply.

Applicants should be committed to excellence in undergraduate and graduate
education and interest in teaching quantitative methods at the graduate
level is preferable. The Ph.D. is required and salary is commensurate with
education and experience.  Review of applications will begin February 15,
2012 and continue until the position is filled. Interested candidates
should send hardcopies of their curriculum vitae, a cover letter
describing research and teaching interests, reprints if available, and
arrange to have three letters of recommendation sent to:

Professor Steve Clark, Chair
Cognitive Search Committee
Department of Psychology
University of California ­ Riverside
900 University Avenue
Riverside, CA 92521.

The Riverside campus of the University of California is growing rapidly
and has an excellent psychology department with a strong record of success
in research, teaching, and extramural funding.  For information on the
Department of Psychology, see our website at: http://www.psych.ucr.edu
<http://www.psych.ucr.edu/>.  The campus is located about 50 miles east of
Los Angeles and less than an hour¹s drive from the area¹s mountains,
deserts, and beaches.

The University of California, Riverside is an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer

2-YEAR POST-DOC POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE OF LANGUAGE AT CIMEC/CLIC

2-YEAR POST-DOC POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE OF LANGUAGE AT CIMEC/CLIC

A two-year postdoctoral position in the computational neuroscience of
language will be available at the CIMeC/CLIC laboratory of the
University of Trento (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/) starting as soon as
possible from January 2012. The fellowship has an initial duration of
2 years.

The successful candidate will join a team using machine learning
methods to extract semantic information from recordings of neural
activity (EEG, MEG and fMRI). The main focus for this particular
position will be two research collaborations:
- the ADAM project, a collaboration with the University of Trento's
 Centre for Neurocognitive Rehabilitation (CERIN) and the Cognitive
 Neuropsychology Lab at Beijing Normal University, to develop an
 EEG-based diagnosis system to identify language deficits in stroke and
Alzheimer's patients.
- the Deep Relations project, a collaboration with Expert Systems /
 Cogito to explore the use of EEG analysis techniques in detecting
 emotional reaction to text.

The successful candidate should a PhD in computer science / electronic
engineering, cognitive science, or neuroscience, with technical
knowledge of cognitive science and machine learning and experience
with neuroimaging techniques, EEG analysis methods (e.g., in BCI),
experimental design (elicitation/behavioural), machine learning and
signal processing; programming skills are a must, technical knowledge
of computational linguistics a plus.

The Language Interaction and Computation Lab (CLIC) is a unit of the
University of Trento's Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences
(www.cimec.unitn.it) or CIMEC: an interdisciplinary Centre for the
research in brain and cognition including neuroscientists,
psychologists, (computational) linguists, computational
neuroscientists, and physicists. CLIC consists of researchers from the
Departments of Computer Science and Cognitive Science carrying out
research on a range of topics, including concept acquisition and
information extraction from very large multi-modal corpora, combining
brain data and data from corpora to study cognition, and methods of
theoretical linguistics.

For additional information please contact Massimo Poesio
(massimo.poesio at unitn.it) or Andrew Anderson (andrew.anderson at
unitn.it), attaching your CV._______________________________________________

Researcher Position in Machine Learning for Neuroscience

Researcher Position in Machine Learning for Neuroscience is available in the Neuroinformatics Laboratory (NiLab) at Fondazione Bruno Kessler

The Neuroinformatics Laboratory (NILab) is a joint initiative between Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) and the Center for Mind and Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento in order to promote interdisciplinary research in cognitive neuroscience. Neuroinformatics stands at the intersection of neuroscience and information science and it provides methods and technologies for managing, analyzing, and modeling neuroimaging data. 

The NILab mission spans from scientific to technological aspects. The scientific research activity covers the design and the development of novel methods for the integration, the analysis and the interpretation of unimodal and multimodal neuroimaging data. The laboratory is co-located with the Neuroimaging Laboratory (LNIF) of CIMeC, which provides several facilities for cognitive neuroscience investigations such as MR (4T Brucker Medspec Scanner), MEG/EEG (Electa Neuromag), TMS and EyeTracking. 

The successful candidate will work on the development of computational methods for brain data analysis approaching challenging tasks such as brain decoding, brain mapping and brain connectivity. 

For further information, please contact info.nilab@fbk.eu.

Due to the FBK's attempt to promote equal opportunity and gender balance, in case of equal applications, female candidates will be given preference.

The ideal candidate should have:

* Ph.D. in Computer Science or related fields.

* Solid background in Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition.

* Outstanding publication record.

* At least basic knowledge of the neuroimaging techniques (fMRI, dMRI, MEG, EEG).

* Good skills in scientific programming with Python.

* Proficient English both written and spoken.

Additional requirements / desiderata: 

* Attitude to work in a multidisciplinary environment.

* Ability to quickly learn and use new technologies and tools.

* Ability to acquire knowledge from different application domains.

Type of Contract: research position is available immediately until December 2014. The gross salary offer will range between € 39,000.00 and € 44,000.00, depending on seniority and expertise.

Useful Links:

Neuroinformatics Laboratory - nilab.fbk.eu

Fondazione Bruno Kessler - www.fbk.eu

Center for Mind/Brain Sciences - www.cimec.unitn.it

To apply online please send your detailed CV with two references to jobs@fbk.eu. 

Emails should have Ref.Code: NILAB_2012