Assistant Professorships in the U.K.

[Malcolm Young]

                  UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE

                      DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHOLOGY

         Lecturers in Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience
                        or Behavioural Ecology


Applications from suitably qualified and experienced scientists are invited for
two lectureships in this enthusiastic and expanding department. Candidates
should have a good honours degree, a doctorate, knowledge of computing and
multivariate data analysis, and a record of research activity in published
papers and research support. Applicants who will contribute to three
areas of research: (1) cognitive, sensory and systems neuroscience,
(2) neural network computing, and (3) behavioural ecology are particularly
encouraged. Excellent research facilities and support will be provided. Salary
will be on the Lecturer Scale (to GBP26,430), at a position determined by
qualifications and experience.

The Department of Psychology at Newcastle is broadly-based and rapidly growing.
All undergraduate courses offered by the Department are heavily over-subscribed
and the Department's postgraduate research community is the fastest growing of
any in the university. Staff have research programs in cognitive neuroscience,
behavioural ecology, and applied, occupational, health, social and cognitive
psychology. The Department is also the home of the Neural Systems Group, an
interdisciplinary centre for research in sensory, systems, computational and
cognitive neuroscience, and neural network computing. The members of the Neural
Systems Group are drawn from the Departments of Psychology, Physiological
Sciences and the School of Neurosciences. Further details of the department and
the Neural Systems Group can be found on the WWW at

http://york37.ncl.ac.uk/www/psychol.html

No forms of application are to be issued. Applications should take the form of
a
covering letter and three copies of the applicant's full curriculum vitae,
with details of present salary and the names and addresses of three referees.
Informal enquiries may be made to Prof. Malcolm Young (0191-222-7525,
mpy%crunch at ncl.ac.uk). Applications should be sent to: the Director of
Personnel, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK.



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+      Professor Malcolm P. Young              Tel: 0191 222 7525        +
+      Department of Psychology                Fax: 0191 222 5622        +     
+      Ridley Building                                                   +
+      University of Newcastle                                           +
+      Newcastle upon Tyne                                               +
+      NE1 7RU                   Email: malcolm at flash.ncl.ac.uk          +
+      UK                               mpy at crunch.ncl.ac.uk             +
+                                       nmpy at ncl.ac.uk                   +
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