<div dir="ltr"><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Two postdoctoral positions will be available at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) to work with me (Stefano Panzeri </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.iit.it/people/stefano-panzeri" style="color:blue">https://www.iit.it/people/stefano-panzeri</a><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51)">)</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">, in the laboratory of Neural Computation.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The laboratory investigates, by developing and using advanced data analysis methods and neural network models, how circuits of neurons in the brain encode information and use it to produce appropriate behaviors. The positions on offer would leave the candidate the choice of developing a research project of mutual interest within this research area. The laboratory offers a wide range of interdisciplinary expertise in computational neuroscience, including both advanced neural analysis techniques and neural network modeling.  The laboratory also offers a thriving, ambitious research environment which is well funded (including several grants from the NIH Brain Initiative). Moreover, the laboratory offers extensive long-term international collaborations with empirical neuroscience laboratories (including Chris Harvey at Harvard Medical School, Wei Lee at Children’s Hospital, Christoph Kayser at Bielefeld, Nikos Logothetis at Tuebingen, Mathew Diamond at SISSA, Tommaso Fellin and Cristina Becchio at the IIT, Alex Thiele at Newcastle) and ample opportunities for advanced training and personal scientific growth.   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">I 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 willing to interact with both experimental and theoretical neuroscientists. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The successful candidate will have the opportunity to conduct research at the IIT center in Rovereto (Italy), or at the IIT headquarters in Genova, (Italy).</span></p><p class="gmail-MsoBodyText" style="text-align:justify;margin:0cm 0cm 6pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">For representative recent publications from my lab, please see:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Runyan C. A., et al (2017) Distinct timescales of population coding across cortex, Nature: 548: 92-96.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Panzeri S., et al (2017) Cracking the neural code for sensory perception by combining statistics, intervention and behaviour. Neuron 93: 491-507</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Safaai, H., et al (2015) Modelling the effect of Locus Coeruleous firing on single trial cortical state dynamics and sensory processing. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 112(41): 12834–12839</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Further information about my research can be found at my IIT and Google Scholar web pages:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.iit.it/people/stefano-panzeri" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.iit.it/people/stefano-panzeri</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=C-HCQ9cAAAAJ&hl=en" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=C-HCQ9cAAAAJ&hl=en</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Applications (full CV, statement of research interest and name and contact of 2 referees) should be sent by e-mail to <a href="mailto:stefano.panzeri@iit.it">stefano.panzeri@iit.it</a>, quoting “Postdoctoral position in Computational Neuroscience” in the subject line. The deadline for applications is May  18th, 2019. Applications will be examined until the position is filled. Interested applicants are advised to contact me by email informally as soon as possible to discuss about the science and the position informally.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Thanks</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:black">Stefano Panzeri</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;font-size:12pt;font-family:Cambria,serif"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p></div>