I am looking for a Post-Doctoral Researcher to work on fMRI and object processing. The applicants should have obtained a PhD, and have an overall interest in object recognition, potentially focusing on object-related features like shape, texture material and surface properties and action. I am particularly interested in researchers with strong expertise in fMRI, and in particular decoding (e.g., SVM) and multivariate approaches. Good programming skills, great communication and mentoring skills, and a great command of English are a plus.
The selected applicant will work with me (Jorge Almeida <https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ejJVE0wAAAAJ&hl=en&authuser=1>) but will also with Alfonso Caramazza <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=hvvrK8cAAAAJ>, and will also benefit from the lively academic environment and research groups we are currently building in the Psychology Department of the University of Coimbra, Portugal (Jason Fischer <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=aPwpIY0AAAAJ>, Joana Carvalho <https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=E5cBHVQAAAAJ>, etc). The projects will relate to work on object and mid-level processing. Below are some examples: Mahon, B. Z., & Almeida, J. (2024). Reciprocal interactions among parietal and occipito-temporal representations support everyday object-directed actions. *Neuropsychologia*, *198*, 108841. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108841 Almeida, J., Fracasso, A., Kristensen, S., Valério, D., Bergström, F., Chakravarthi, R., Tal, Z., & Walbrin, J. (2023). Neural and behavioral signatures of the multidimensionality of manipulable object processing. *Communications biology*, *6*(1), 940. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05323-x Walbrin, J., & Almeida, J. (2021). High-Level Representations in Human Occipito-Temporal Cortex Are Indexed by Distal Connectivity. *The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience*, *41*(21), 4678–4685. https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2857-20.2021 The position is for 2 to 3 years, and the salary is the standard Post-Doctoral pay-scale in Portugal (net value 1850 euros per month; this is a competitive salary for the cost of living in Portugal and especially in Coimbra). Start time should be as soon as possible. The Proaction Lab is currently well-funded as we have a set of on-going funded projects including a Starting Grant ERC to Jorge Almeida, a major European ERA Chair project to Jorge Almeida and Alfonso Caramazza, and other projects. We have access to a 3T MRI scanner with a 32-channel coil, to a 7T scanner (in collaboration with a site outside of Portugal), to tDCS, and to a fully set psychophysics lab. We have a 256 ch EEG, motion tracking and eyetracking on site. We also have a science communication office dedicated to the lab. Finally, the University of Coimbra is a 700-year-old University and has been selected as a UNESCO world Heritage site. Coimbra is one of the liveliest university cities in the world, and it is a beautiful city with easy access to the beach and mountain. You should apply as soon as you can. If interested send an email to [email protected], with a CV, and motivation/scientific proposal letter. -- Systems Neuroscience mailing list: www.systemsneuroscience.eu To post, send email to [email protected] --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Systems Neuroscience" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/systems-neuroscience/CALb8_7xd9W7%2BKa8_JPLrZMH6hbsq5OOO04Tps05KwdBD-CA5NQ%40mail.gmail.com.
