Connectionists: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive and Neuro-Robotics, Plymouth University UK (BABEL Project)

[Angelo Cangelosi]

Plymouth University, UK
Centre for Robotics and Neural Systems

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Cognitive and Neuro-Robotics (BABEL Project)

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AMM733/research-fellow-in-cognitive-and-neuro-robotics-babel-project/

www.babel-project.org


A post-doctoral research fellow is required for a period of up to 12 months to work on the EPSRC funded collaborative project “BABEL: Bio-inspired Architecture for Brain Embodied Language”.

You will carry out research on neuro-robotics and cognitive robotics experiments. A PhD in Computer science, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence or allied disciplines is required. Excellent programming skills are essential and knowledge of computational neuroscience and/or human-robot interaction research is a desirable skill. The research will require the use of the iCub humanoid robot and of the SpiNNaker neuromorphic system.

You will be working collaboratively as part of a larger inter-disciplinary research team at the School of Computing and Mathematics, and the School of Psychology, under the supervision of Professor Angelo Cangelosi, Dr Thomas Wennekers, Professor Sue Denham and Professor Friedemann Pulvermueller. You will also collaborate with the other partners in the BABEL consortium, such as Professor Steve Furber and Dr David Lester (Manchester University) and Pulvermueller’s lab at Free University Berlin. You might be required to travel for project meetings and between partners’ sites.

Informal enquiries regarding the post, the project or the research details can be made to Prof Angelo Cangelosi (acangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk<mailto:acangelosi at plymouth.ac.uk> or +44 1752 586217).

This is a full-time post working 37 hours per week on a fixed-term basis for 12 months. Expected start date is 1 February 2016 (or as soon as possible after this date, subject to negotiation).

Recruitment and selection will be based on individual merit, however, we should particularly like to encourage applications from women, black and minority ethnic people who are under-represented in the Faculty of Technology.

CLOSING DATE: 12 midnight, Tuesday 5 January 2015

Plymouth University is committed to an inclusive culture and respecting diversity, and welcomes applications from all sections of the community and is a Stonewall diversity champion.

The University holds a Bronze Athena SWAN Award which recognises commitment to advancing women’s career in STEMM academia.

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