Connectionists: Post-doc and PhD positions in Visual Neuroscience

[Zoe Kourtzi]

Post-doc and PhD positions in Visual Neuroscience
1 Post-doc and 1 PhD position are available to work on human visual cognition and neuroscience at Zoe Kourtzi’s lab in the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK. Our work combines psychophysics, multimodal brain imaging (fMRI, EEG, MEG, TMS), modeling and advanced computational analyses to understand the neural basis of visual perception and learning.
The projects are based in the School of Psychology at the University of Birmingham that has a state-of-the-art Imaging Centre (3T MRI scanner), EEG systems, TMS systems and access to screened neuropsychological patients. The School is one of the UK’s top 3 research departments and has strong groups in Behavioural Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience and Vision Science. There are strong interdisciplinary links with Computer Science, Engineering and a number of international partners through a Marie Curie Initial Training Network that brings together researchers from across Europe. This offers exciting opportunities for advanced training, collaboration with international centres of excellence, interdisciplinary exchange and industrial secondments. For more information see http://cnil.bham.ac.uk<http://cnil.bham.ac.uk/> and www.optimaldecisions.org<http://www.optimaldecisions.org/>.
Candidates should have a background in Neuroscience, Cognitive Psychology Computer Science, Engineering, Physics or a related field. Programming skills (e.g. Matlab, C) and experience with psychophysics, brain imaging and signal processing methods are highly desirable. Above all candidates should be enthusiastic to learn new techniques and to contribute to new experiments.
Enquiries should be addressed to z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk<mailto:z.kourtzi at bham.ac.uk>