Connectionists: Multiple postdoctoral positions in computational neuroscience (neural coding), Hamburg, Germany

[Stefano Panzeri]

I am opening three fully funded postdoctoral positions in computational
neuroscience at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) in
Hamburg, Germany.

We investigate how networks of neurons in the cerebral cortex encode,
process and transmit information to generate behaviors such as sensation
and decision-making. To address these issues, we develop and use
information-theoretic and machine learning methods to study population
coding, as well as neural network models to individuate mechanisms for
neural information processing and generation of functions.

Our laboratory enjoys extensive long-term international collaborations with
experimental laboratories, including with Chris Harvey at Harvard Medical
School, Wei- Lee at Boston Children’s Hospital, Tommaso Fellin and
Alessandro Gozzi at IIT, Mriganka Sur at MIT, as well as collaborations
with experimental laboratories in Hamburg (Andreas Engel, Tobias Donner,
Ileana Hanganu-Opatz). The laboratory also offers a thriving, ambitious and
well-funded research environment (with funds from the NIH Brain Initiative,
the Simons Foundation, the European Union, the ERC). The lab provides ample
opportunities for advanced training and for personal scientific growth.



We seek candidates holding a PhD in a numerate or neuroscientific
discipline, with a solid computational background and a keen interest in
neuroscience. They must be highly motivated and creative individuals who
want to work in a dynamic, multi-disciplinary research environment and be
happy to interact with both experimental and theoretical neuroscientists.



The jobs are available starting immediately and applications will be
considered as soon as they are received and until the position is filled.
Funding is available for several years and a minimum commitment of two
years is expected by interested candidates.



Interested applicants are encouraged to email me (stefano.panzeri at gmail.com)
as soon as possible, to inform me of the interest for the position and
initiate a discussion about research projects.





For recent relevant publications from my lab, see:

Kuan A et al (2024) Synaptic wiring motifs in posterior parietal cortex
support decision-making *Nature:* advanced online publication (doi
10.1038/s41586-024-07088-7)

Celotto M et al, An information-theoretic quantification of the content of
communication between brain regions, *NeurIPS* 36, 2023

Panzeri S, et al (2022) The structures and functions of correlations in
neural population codes. *Nature Reviews Neuroscience* 23: 551-567

Koren V., Panzeri S (2022) Biologically plausible solutions for spiking
networks with efficient coding. *NeurIPS 35, 2022,*

Curreli S, et al (2022) Complementary encoding of spatial information in
hippocampal astrocites. *PLoS Biology* 20: e3001530.

Valente, M. et al (2021), Correlations enhance the behavioral readout of
neural population activity in association cortex. *Nature Neuroscience*,
24, 975–986



Chong, E. et al (2020) Manipulating synthetic optogenetic odors reveals the
coding logic of olfactory perception. *Science* 368, 1329.



Runyan C. A., et al (2017) Distinct timescales of population coding across
cortex, *Nature*: 548: 92-96.



Panzeri S., et al (2017) Cracking the neural code for sensory perception by
combining statistics, intervention and behaviour. *Neuron* 93: 491-507



Pica, G. et al (2017) Quantifying how much sensory information in a neural
code is relevant for behavior, *NeurIPS 30, 2017*



Thanks



Stefano Panzeri (stefano.panzeri at gmail.com)
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