<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>POSTDOC POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL / SYSTEMS NEUROSCIENCE<br class=""><br class="">Two postdoctoral positions - one in theory and one in experiment - are<br class="">available in a joint project between the labs of Alfonso Renart and Christian<br class="">Machens at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown in Lisbon, Portugal. <br class=""><br class="">Location:<br class="">The Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown is situated on the waterfront in <br class="">central Lisbon. English is the official language of the Centre. The center is <br class="">composed of about 20 main research groups who study diverse topics in <br class="">neuroscience using advanced, cutting edge techniques. <br class=""><br class="">Project:<br class="">The proposed project will investigate to what extent neural circuits actively<br class="">compensate random perturbations. The project involves the recordings and<br class="">partial silencing of neural populations, population-level analysis using<br class="">dimensionality reduction and other techniques, and the modeling of the<br class="">results with spiking networks. Relevant background literature: Renart, de<br class="">la Rocha, et al (2010), Science 327:587-90; Barrett et al (2016), eLife 5:12454;<br class="">Deneve and Machens (2016), Nat Neurosci 19:375-82.<br class=""><br class="">Profile (theory):<br class="">The ideal candidate should have a PhD with a strong, quantitative background <div class="">(ideally in fields such as machine learning and/or computational neuroscience). </div><div class="">The position is funded for two years with possibility of extension.<br class=""><br class="">Profile (experiment):<br class="">The ideal candidate should have experience in electrophysiology<br class="">(e.g. recordings from behaving head-fixed mice) and data analysis <br class="">(e.g. dimensionality reduction methods etc).<br class=""><br class="">Applications should include a CV, a statement of research interests (max <br class="">1 page), and two letters of recommendation. Feel free to ask any informal <br class="">questions about the positions if you are interested. <br class=""><br class="">Electronic submissions in pdf-format are preferred and should be send to both </div><div class="">of the following email addresses:<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:christian.machens@neuro.fchampalimaud.org" class="">christian.machens@neuro.fchampalimaud.org</a><br class=""><a href="mailto:alfonso.renart@neuro.fchampalimaud.org" class="">alfonso.renart@neuro.fchampalimaud.org</a></div></body></html>