<div dir="ltr">Dear all,<br><br>We're hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. Please see the text below.<br><br><div>The project is about understanding principles of learning in biological & artificial neural networks. It is in collaboration with Anil Seth (Sussex), Yoshua Bengio (Mila), and Blake Richards (McGill). We are looking for a recent PhD graduate with experience in generative modelling, active inference, reinforcement learning, and possibly of analysing high-dimensional in-vitro neural recordings. <br></div><div><br></div>Details and apply here: <a href="https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/641239/research-fellow-psychology">https://careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/job/641239/research-fellow-psychology</a><br><div><br></div><div>For any questions please contact myself at <a href="mailto:adeel.razi@monash.edu">adeel.razi@monash.edu</a></div><div><br></div><div>With best wishes,</div><div>Adeel</div><div>

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</span></span></b><h3 style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Roboto Condensed",sans-serif;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.2;margin-bottom:1.5rem;margin-top:2.5rem"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">Research Fellow Opening</span></h3><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Job No.:</span> 641239</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Location:</span> Clayton campus</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Employment Type:</span> Full-time</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Duration:</span> 12-month fixed-term appointment </p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Remuneration: </span>$72,927 - $98,975 pa Level A (plus 17% employer superannuation)</p><ul style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Be inspired, every day</span></li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities</span></li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions</span></li></ul><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">The Opportunity</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">In this collaborative and multidisciplinary project, you will focus on employing and extending active inference – a framework for defining how neural networks self-optimise in highly dynamic and uncertain environments – along with in vitro neural network recordings to understand the governing principles of learning in biological and artificial neural networks. The project is within a wider collaboration of Associate Professor Adeel Razi with Professor Anil Seth (Sussex), Professor Blake Richards (McGill), Professor Yoshua Bengio (Mila and The University of Montreal) and our industrial partner.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">To be successful in this role:</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">This position is suited to a highly motivated individual who holds a doctoral qualification in Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Machine Learning, Applied Physics and Mathematics, Computational Neuroscience or a closely related field.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">You will have: demonstrated analytical and manuscript preparation skills; including a track record of refereed research publications in computational or mathematical modelling of natural systems, reinforcement learning, active inference, computational neuroscience and relevant areas; the ability to solve complex problems by using discretion, innovation and the exercise diagnostic skills and/or expertise; and excellent planning and organisational skills.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Monash benefits include:</span></p><ul style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit">Professional development and study support</li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit">Collaborative and inclusive culture</li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit">Health and well-being initiatives</li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit">Generous parental leave and on-site childcare</li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit">On-site services available to staff at our campuses including on-site gym, pool, bookshop, health service, post office</li><li style="margin:0.5rem 0px;box-sizing:inherit">Salary packaging options available and staff discounts</li></ul><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">If this sounds like a position that suits your career aspirations, we can’t wait to receive your application!</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">This role is a full-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">Your application must address the key selection criteria. Please refer to<img src="https://publicstorage.dc2.pageuppeople.com/513/ProviderAsset/scribble/89ed8576-c9cc-427c-9f49-a0dfa21e1a32.png" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px none; height: auto; max-width: 100%;" width="1" height="1"> "<a href="https://www.monash.edu/jobs/how-to-apply/applying-for-the-job" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,109,174);box-sizing:inherit">How to apply for Monash Jobs</a>".</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">We encourage applications from First Nations people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities and age groups.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">Join us in our commitment to ensuring a better future for ourselves and for the communities in which we study, work, live and engage – <a href="https://change-it.monash.edu/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,109,174);box-sizing:inherit">#ChangeIt</a> with us.</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Enquiries</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif">Dr Adeel Razi, Associate Professor, Monash Biomedical Imaging +61 3 9905 0109</p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:inherit;font-weight:700">Position Description</span></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(80,80,80);font-family:sans-serif"><img src="https://az29734.vo.msecnd.net/static/people/icons/icon_file_small.gif" alt="Download File" class="gmail-CToWUd" style="box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px none; height: auto; max-width: 100%;"> <a href="https://secure.dc2.pageuppeople.com/apply/TransferRichTextFile.ashx?sData=UFUtVjMty6KjhMRLIfbzKuyd62YYO9N1RCT1MiYGZVt5mTm_ST33zVbwcU23SP_9WUyFLl_cfX74hGDqYw6b7XpuQ5Ckebh48IiNl2UivHhm6A5uuh-b9kd9W_Lu0KDB4qDxAZfGx_Bd9AFmeoGb2ppCQcKHsA%7e%7e" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(0,109,174);box-sizing:inherit">Research Fellow - Psychology</a></p><p style="font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-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