<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>Multiple postdoc and PhD positions will soon be available in Roland Fleming’s lab in the context of the ERC Advanced Grant project STUFF. </div><div>The project spans material perception, intuitive physics, mental imagery, grasping and art.</div><div><br>The positions will most likely be available from Autumn 2023. If you would be interested in applying, it would be great if you could contact me in advance.<br><br></div><div>You should ideally have a background in perception or motor control, although I’ll also consider particularly strong candidates from other backgrounds. Experience with any of the following would be a significant bonus:<br><br></div><div>- computational modelling of perceptual and/or motor processes<br>- machine learning, especially deep learning<br>- computer graphics, especially physics simulations and mesh processing</div><div>- image and movie synthesis through deep learning</div><div>- art and computational aesthetics, especially involving formal quantitative analyses of artworks<br>- MoCap (with or without markers)<br>- robotics<br>- fMRI</div><div><br>My lab specialises in the visual perception of—and motor interactions with—materials and objects. Topics include visual estimation of material properties and shape; physical reasoning and naive physics; grasping and dextrous manipulation; one-shot learning; the imagination and mental simulation; shape understanding, including perceptual organisation of shape and inferences about causal history. Check out my lab website for more information, including articles and datasets.</div><div><br></div><div>My lab is situated in one of the top research environments for visual perception and sensorimotor research worldwide, with a large group of Principle Investigators and a thriving and diverse community of junior researchers working on perception and action using psychophysics, eye-, hand- and body-tracking, VR, fMRI, EEG, machine learning and other methods. We run several large-scale research consortia, providing excellent local and international networking opportunities. Giessen is also ideally located in the centre of western Europe, with half-a-dozen other countries a mere train-ride away. </div><div><br></div><div>If you are interested, I look forward to hearing from you!<br><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Roland Fleming</div><div><div><font size="1" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><font color="#0349a6"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font></font><font size="1" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><font color="#0349a6">____________________________<br></font></font><div><font size="1" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><font color="#0349a6"><b>Prof. Roland W Fleming, FRSB</b></font><br><font color="#585858">Kurt Koffka Professor of Experimental Psychology, Justus Liebig University, Giessen<br>Executive Director, Centre for Mind, Brain and Behaviour, Universities of Marburg and Giessen</font><br><br>Otto-Behaghel-Str 10, 35394 Giessen, GERMANY<br>tel: 0641 99-26140<br></font><a href="http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/fleminglab"><font face="Avenir-Book" size="1">http://www.allpsych.uni-giessen.de/fleminglab</font></a></div></div></div></div></body></html>