Connectionists: Post-doctoral position at the University of Barcelona

[agutierrez@el.ub.es]

Post-doctoral position

The Intelligent Signal Processing group at the University of Barcelona  
is looking for a Post-doctoral candidate to conduct research in the  
area of biologically inspired signal processing for the following 3  
years. The funding for this position will be provided by the Culture  
and Science Ministry of Spain after the candidate passes a national  
selection process.

Research

The position will involve research on the area of biologically  
inspired processing mechanisms applied to machine olfaction. The study  
and modeling of the olfactory system can provide new mechanisms to  
process the chemical information provided by a matrix of non-specific  
gas sensors.

Requirements

Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the research to be conducted,  
candidates of multiple backgrounds will be considered, including:  
Electronics, Signal processing, chemometrics, neural networks, neural  
computation, and modeling of neural systems. A perfect candidate for  
this position would be familiar with all this subjects. The candidate  
is required to have a PhD title obtained before 30th of June 2007 and  
later than 15th March 2004. So PhD students about that are about to  
finish are eligible.

Funding

Juan de la Cierva program: This program provides funding for early  
stage post-doctoral researchers (max. 3 years after obtention of PhD)  
to work along with a consolidated research group in Spain. The work of  
the post-doctoral researcher has to be associated to an on-going,  
previously funded, project of the research group. The annual salary is  
of 24.750 ? and the duration of the fellowship of 3 years. The  
position will be starting around December 2007. More information at  
(http://wwwn.mec.es/ciencia/jsp/plantilla.jsp?area=delacierva_eng&id=2)

Group

The Intelligent Signal Processing (ISP) group at the Universitat de  
Barcelona is currently composed by 14 members: 2 associate professors,  
2 postdoctoral scholars, 8 PhD students, and 2 graduate students. Four  
additional associate professors cooperate in a regular basis with the  
ISP group (http://isp.el.ub.es).

Application

Send a CV and a short list of research interests to Dr. Santiago Marco  
(santi at el.ub.es) and Dr. Agustín Gutierrez (agutierrez at el.ub.es)

IMPORTANT: Deadline 15th of March for the submission of the documents  
to the Spanish Ministry. Contact us at least 10 days before that  
deadline (by the 5th) to prepare the documentation.

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Agustín Gutiérrez, PhD
Departament d'Electronica
Universitat de Barcelona
Martí i Franqués 1
08028-Barcelona
Phone: +34 93 4039174
Fax: +34 93 4021148
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