We have an opportunity for two postdoctoral research positions - funded by the ERC - to work in our lab at the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi), within the School of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Glasgow. The School of Psychology and Neuroscience is a world-class research and teaching unit and it has recently been rated 4th in the UK and 1st in Scotland on research outputs (REF2021).
The posts have a strong computational cognitive neuroimaging component, requiring advances in 1) theoretical neuroscience – to enable the development of a unified computational framework for integrating perceptual and reward learning and decision making – and 2) multimodal brain imaging – to offer a high spatiotemporal characterisation of the relevant cortical and subcortical pathways. Main research themes include, but not limited to: reinforcement learning and valuation, risk and uncertainty, confidence and metacognition, evidence integration and decision making.
The post holders will have the opportunity to be involved in cutting-edge bespoke neuroimaging technology [3T/7TfMRI-EEG fusion] and advanced data analytics to uncover and predict patterns in large multimodal datasets [e.g. behaviour, simultaneous EEG-fMRI and eye-tracking data]. Please see below for representative lab publications.
Apply here: https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDD932/research-assistant-associate-postdoctoral-2-posts
This post is full time and has funding up to 31st May 2026 in the first instance with the possibility for an extension beyond this date.
Related Publications:
[1] Elsa Fouragnan, Chris Retzler, Karen Mullinger and Marios G. Philiastides (2015), Two spatiotemporally distinct value systems shape reward-based learning in the human brain, Nature Communications, 6: 8107.
[2] Sabina Gherman and Marios G. Philiastides (2018), Human VMPFC encodes early signatures of confidence in perceptual decisions, eLife, 7: e38293.
[3] Tarryn Balsdon, Stijn Verdonck, Tim Loossens, and Marios G. Philiastides (2023), Secondary motor integration as a final arbiter in sensorimotor decision-making, PLOS Biology 21(7): e3002200
[4] Tarryn Balsdon, M. Andrea Pisauro, Marios G. Philiastides (2023), Distinct basal ganglia contributions to learning from implicit and explicit value signals in perceptual decision-making, bioRxiv, doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.05.556317
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Marios G. Philiastides, Ph.D.
Professor of Decision Neuroscience
School of Psychology and Neuroscience
Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, G12 8QB
Web: https://mphiliastides.org
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