<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify">I am looking for a
Post-Doctoral Researcher at the initial stages (post-PhD and no more than 2
years and half after obtaining their PhD). The applicants should have obtained
a PhD, and have an overall interest in object recognition, potentially focusing
on object-related features like shape, texture material and surface properties, and/or
object-related action. I am particularly interested in researchers with strong
expertise in fMRI, and in particular decoding and multivariate approaches. Good
programming skills, great communication and mentoring skills, and a great
command of English are a plus.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;text-align:justify"><br></span></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The selected applicant
will work with me (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ejJVE0wAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1" style="">Jorge
Almeida</a>) but will also benefit from the lively academic environment and research groups we are
currently building in the Psychology Department of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (<a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=aPwpIY0AAAAJ" style="">Jason
Fischer</a>, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=E5cBHVQAAAAJ" style="">Joana
Carvalho</a>, <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=hvvrK8cAAAAJ" style="">Alfonso
Caramazza</a>, etc). The projects will relate to my work on
object and mid-level processing. Below are some examples:</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span lang="PT">Mahon, B. Z.,
& Almeida, J. (2024). </span><span lang="EN-GB">Reciprocal interactions among
parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed
actions. <i>Neuropsychologia</i>, <i>198</i>, 108841. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841" style=""><span lang="PT">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841</span></a></span><span lang="PT"></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span lang="PT">Almeida, J.,
Fracasso, A., Kristensen, S., Valério, D., Bergström, F., Chakravarthi, R.,
Tal, Z., & Walbrin, J. (2023). </span><span lang="EN-GB">Neural and
behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object
processing. <i>Communications biology</i>, <i>6</i>(1), 940. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x" style="">https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x</a></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB"><font color="#000000">Walbrin, J., & Almeida, J. (2021).
High-Level Representations in Human Occipito-Temporal Cortex Are Indexed by
Distal Connectivity. <i>The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of
the Society for Neuroscience</i>, <i>41</i>(21), 4678–4685. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2857-20.2021" style="">https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2857-20.2021</a></font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The position is for 2
to 3 years, and the salary is the standard Post-Doctoral pay-scale in Portugal
(net value 1800 euros per month; this is a competitive salary for the cost of
living in Portugal and especially in Coimbra). Start time should be as soon as
possible.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">The Proaction Lab is
currently well-funded as we have a set of on-going funded projects including a
Starting Grant ERC to Jorge Almeida, a major European ERA Chair project to
Jorge Almeida and Alfonso Caramazza, and other projects. We have access to a 3T
MRI scanner with a 32-channel coil, to a 7T scanner (in collaboration with a
site outside of Portugal), to tDCS, and to a fully set psychophysics lab.
We have a 256 ch EEG, motion tracking and eyetracking on site. We also have a
science communication office dedicated to the lab.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">Finally, the
University of Coimbra is a 700-year-old University and has been selected as a
UNESCO world Heritage site. Coimbra is one of the liveliest university cities
in the world, and it is a beautiful city with easy access to the beach and
mountain.</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000">You should apply as
soon as you can. If interested send an email to <span lang="EN-GB" style=""><a href="mailto:jorgecbalmeida@gmail.com" target="_blank" style=""><span lang="EN-US">jorgecbalmeida@gmail.com</span></a></span>, with a CV, and motivation/scientific proposal
letter. </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 10pt;text-align:justify;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><br></font></p></div></div>