Job ID: 116831

Postdoc in systems neuroscience

Position: Post-doctoral Position

Deadline: 31 July 2024

Contract Length: 2 years

City: Madrid

Country: Spain

Institution: Instituto Cajal @ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)

Department: Functional and systems neuroscience

Description:

A postdoc position is available under the supervision of Pablo Jercog at the Department of Functional and Systems Neurobiology of the Cajal Institute (https://cajal.csic.es/en/home/) of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC). The project aims to develop a new framework for the analysis and interpretation of animal behavior and electrophysiological data (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2020.00064/full). Such analysis of the data will involve different models that will be based on reinforcement learning, stochastic decision processes, and history-dependent biases of a large range of time scales from seconds to months. Our lab is part of a larger interacting network of

computational/cognitive/systems neuroscience labs in Spain (http://www.barccsyn.org), and also the novel center in Madrid called CINC (https://www.cinc.csic.es/research-areas/), where top scientists such as Liset M de la Prida, Alfonso Renart, Gonzalo Polavieja, and Juan Alvaro-Gallego are moving there.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in computational neuroscience or a related field. Prior experience with the analysis of animal behavior, neuroimaging, machine learning, and/or computational modeling will be valued.  Financial support is provided by the Spanish Ministry of Science.

*INITIAL APPOINTMENT:* two years.

*APPLICATION:* Send a curriculum and motivation letter with a list of three contacts for recommendation letters to pjercog@gmail.com. Informal inquiries are welcome.

*DEADLINE:* applications will start to be reviewed on December 1st until the position is filled.

*STARTING DATE:* before September 2024.