<div dir="ltr"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px">The <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600"><a href="https://neuroscience.uchicago.edu/GrossmanCenter" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior</a></span> at the University of Chicago seeks outstanding <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">applicants for multiple postdoctoral positions in computational and theoretical neuroscience</span>. We especially welcome applicants who develop mathematical approaches, computational models, and machine learning methods to study the brain at the circuits, systems, or cognitive levels. The current faculty members of the Grossman Center to work with are: (informal enquiries are welcome)</p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Brent Doiron’s</span> lab investigates how the cellular and synaptic circuitry of neuronal circuits supports the complex dynamics and computations that are routinely observed in the brain. (<a href="mailto:bdoiron@uchicago.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">bdoiron@uchicago.edu</a>). </li></ul><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Jorge Jaramillo’s</span> lab investigates how subcortical structures interact with cortical circuits to subserve cognitive processes such as memory, attention, and decision making. (<a href="mailto:jorgejaramillo@uchicago.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">jorgejaramillo@uchicago.edu</a>). </li></ul><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Ramon Nogueira’s</span> lab investigates the geometry of representations as the computational support of cognitive processes like abstraction in noisy artificial and biological neural networks. (<a href="mailto:rnogueira@uchicago.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">rnogueira@uchicago.edu</a>). </li></ul><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Marcella Noorman’s</span> lab investigates how properties of synapses, neurons, and circuits shape the neural dynamics that enable flexible and efficient computation. (<a href="mailto:noormanm@uchicago.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">noormanm@uchicago.edu</a>).</li></ul><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Samuel Muscinelli’s</span> lab studies how the anatomy of brain circuits both governs learning and adapts to it. We combine analytical theory, machine learning, and data analysis, in close collaboration with experimentalists. (<a href="mailto:smuscinelli@uchicago.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">smuscinelli@uchicago.edu</a>)</li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Appointees will have access to state-of-the-art facilities and multiple opportunities for <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">collaboration with exceptional experimental labs</span> within the Neuroscience Institute, as well as other labs from the departments of Physics, Computer Sciences, and Statistics.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px">The <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Grossman Center offers competitive postdoctoral salaries in the vibrant and international city of Chicago</span>, and a rich intellectual environment that includes the <a href="https://www.anl.gov/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">Argonne National Laboratory</a> and UChicago’s <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/" rel="noopener" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">Data Science Institute</a>. The Neuroscience Institute is currently engaged in a major expansion that includes the incorporation of several new faculty members in the next few years. </p><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.35;margin-top:0.375rem;margin-bottom:0.375rem;font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;color:rgb(128,0,0)">APPLICATIONS:</h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px">Please send your application <span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">before May 1st, 2025</span> as a single PDF file to <a href="mailto:neurotheory@uchicago.edu" style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(128,0,0)">neurotheory@uchicago.edu</a>. It must include:</p><ol style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;padding:0px 0px 0px 32px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><li style="box-sizing:border-box">CV with publications highlighted;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">A motivation letter specifying the types of projects you would like to work on;</li><li style="box-sizing:border-box">The names and contact details of two academic references.</li></ol><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 1.5rem;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:600">Earliest start date</span>: July 1st, 2025, or via mutual agreement. </p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><a href="https://neuroscience.uchicago.edu/grossmancenter-postdoctoral-fellows-theoretical-and-computational-neuroscience">https://neuroscience.uchicago.edu/grossmancenter-postdoctoral-fellows-theoretical-and-computational-neuroscience</a></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(54,54,54);font-family:proxima-nova,"Proxima Nova",Arial,Helvetica,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><em style="box-sizing:border-box">The University of Chicago is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, shared ancestry, age, status as an individual with a disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or other protected classes under the law. For additional information please see the University's Notice of Nondiscrimination.</em></p></div>