Connectionists: Postdoc / PhD position in CNS

[Klaus Obermayer]

Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience Berlin

&

Technische Universitaet Berlin, Department of EE and CS


1 Postdoc or PhD Position

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE


The successful candidate is expected to join a German-US scientific
collaboration between the Neural Information Processing Group at TU
Berlin (Dr. Klaus Obermayer) and the Department of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences at MIT (Dr. Mrigangka Sur) on:

"Role of astrocytes in cortical information processing"

Goal of the "Berlin" part of the project is to construct and evaluate
computational models of mouse and ferret visual cortical networks in
order to understand the mechanisms through which astrocytes influence
the response properties of neurons, guide the development of these
properties during the critical period, and contribute to short-term
plasticity with the release of "gliotransmitters". These activities
will be pursued in close interaction with the MIT part of the project,
in which properties of the neuron-astrocyte network will be investigated
using electrophysiology and in-vivo two-photon microscopy in ferrets
and transgenic mice.


Starting date: Immediate

Salary level: BAT IIa

The position is for three years.

Candidates should hold a recent PhD-degree (Postdoc position) or
Diplom-/Master-degree (PhD position) and should have excellent
mathematical and programming skills. Candidates with good
knowledge and research experience in Computational Neuroscience /
Network Models of Visual Cortex will be preferred.

Application material (CV, list of publications, abstract of PhD
thesis (if applicable), abstract of Diplom-/Master/Thesis, copies
of certificates and two letters of reference) should be sent to:

Prof. Dr. Klaus Obermayer,
FR 2-1, Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstrasse 28/29,
10587 Berlin,
email: oby at cs.tu-berlin.de,

preferably by email.

All applications received before September 30th, 2010, will be given full
consideration, but applications will be accepted until the position is
filled.

For further information see: http://ni.cs.tu-berlin.de/,
http://www.bccn-berlin.de/, http://www.mit.edu/~msur/

TUB seeks to increase the proportion of women and particularly
encourages women to apply. Women will be preferred given equal
qualification.

Disabled persons will be preferred given equal qualification.