<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><h1 class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 5px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(86, 27, 141); line-height: 1.2em; clear: both; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-size: 12px;"><font face="Arial" class="">Two Probationary (Tenure-Track) Faculty Positions in Computational Neuroscience</font></span></h1><p class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" class="">The Faculty of Science at Western University is inviting applications for two probationary (tenure-track) faculty positions at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor in Computational Neuroscience. These unique appointments are initially funded through BrainsCAN (<a href="http://www.uwo.ca/brainscan/index.html" class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 91, 134); text-decoration: none;">brainscan.uwo.ca</a>), a $66M initiative funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund at Western University, and allow a research-intensive focus for the first 5 years of the appointment. Successful candidates will be provided a yearly research budget for this period, and will be eligible for further internal funding including research accelerator awards, and support for postdoctoral research fellows and PhD students. </font></p><p class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="" style="font-family: Arial;">Applicants must have a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and be recognized internationally for excellence in computational neuroscience research. The ideal candidates will develop and apply computational and statistical data analysis methods to the modeling of neurophysiological, behavioral, or neuroimaging data in order to significantly contribute to the advancement of neuroscience. Candidates with either theoretical or empirical research programs are encouraged to apply. The position will commence on July 1, 2018 or as negotiated.</span></p><p class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Arial" class="">The successful candidates will become members of the Brain and Mind Institute (<a href="http://www.uwo.ca/bmi" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 91, 134); text-decoration: none;">www.uwo.ca/bmi</a>) and will work in the highly collaborative environment in neuroscience, a key area of research strength at Western University. The BMI has 30 Principal Investigators working in the areas of behavioral, cognitive and clinical neuroscience, nearly 200 trainees, and an interdisciplinary neuroscience graduate program. Facilities at Western include a full range of ultra-high field, research-only, MRI scanners (3T, 7T, 9.4T) and state of-the-art laboratories for cognitive, behavioral, and neurophysiological testing in humans, nonhuman primates and rodents. The successful candidates will be appointed into one, or more, of either the Department of Statistical & Actuarial Sciences (<a href="http://www.uwo.ca/stats" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 91, 134); text-decoration: none;">www.uwo.ca/stats</a>), the Department for Applied Mathematics (<a href="http://www.uwo.ca/apmaths" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 91, 134); text-decoration: none;">www.uwo.ca/apmaths</a>), and the Department of Computer Science (<a href="http://www.csd.uwo.ca/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 91, 134); text-decoration: none;">www.csd.uwo.ca</a>) as appropriate, in the Faculty of Science at Western (<a href="http://www.uwo.ca/sci" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" class="" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(1, 91, 134); text-decoration: none;">www.uwo.ca/sci</a>). </font></p><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-family: Arial;" class="">Applications will be accepted until the positions are filled. Review of applications will begin on December 1st, 2017.</span></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class="">For full details, please visit: </font></div><div class=""><font face="Arial" class=""><a href="http://www.uwo.ca/brainscan/work_with_us/vacancies/computational_neuroscience__probationary_faculty_positions.html" class="">http://www.uwo.ca/brainscan/work_with_us/vacancies/computational_neuroscience__probationary_faculty_positions.html</a><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font></font></div><div class=""><font color="#5856d6" class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Jörn Diedrichsen</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Western Research Chair</span><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Brain Mind Institute </span><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Computer Science </span><br class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Department of Statistics </span></font></div></div><div class=""><font color="#5856d6" class="" face="Arial"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="mailto:jdiedric@uwo.ca" class="">jdiedric@uwo.ca</a></span></font></div></body></html>