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details below.
Please do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any questions about the position.
Best,
Tobias Heed
postdoc position
starting February 1st, 2020
(E13 TV-L, non-permanent position)
The Biopsycholgy and Cognitive Neuroscience group is looking for a postdoc for the DFG-funded project “DYN-T2M: Dynamic coding of tactileto-motor transformation in human and macaque posterior parietal cortex“.
Our group investigates sensorimotor processing with emphasis on tactile processing and motor decisions in adults and children (see https://bit.ly/2SIoFZm). Our lab provides EEG, TMS, EMG, and a two-armed Kinarm. The project is a tandem in the funding program “German-French Projects in the Natural, Life, and Engineering Sciences” of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Agencenationalede la rechèrche(ANR). We partner with the group of Suliann Ben Hamed of the CNRS in Lyon (see https://bit.ly/2VL7SH5). The project investigates the dynamics of spatial coding of tactile-motor information in parietal cortex. The advertised position focuses on investigating these processes in the human brain with fMRI and motion tracking. The French partner group will use equivalent paradigms in fMRI and neuronal recordings in macaques.
Your tasks: You will develop, implement, acquire, analyze, and publish fMRI and behavioral experiments in the tandem project. You coordinate the communication with the project partners. FMRI will be acquired in Lyon in two research stays of several weeks each. The main work place, however, is Bielefeld, Germany.
Your Profile. We are looking for a team member who has obtained a relevant master degree and completed his/her dissertation who will actively support our complex, international project with high motivation. Applications can be considered if the PhD thesis has been submitted, even if it has not yet been defended. You must have experience with data acquisition and analysis in neuroscience. You work independently, and your work style is to be thorough and precise. You enjoy addressing and solving the many challenges in experimental design and setup as well as in data analysis. You are team-oriented and bring high communication skills. Our team practices open science, and we publish code and data along with our papers; we expect your commitment towards these work principles. The common project language is English; therefore, excellent proficiency in English is essential, whereas knowledge of German and French are not required. The research stays in Lyon will be covered financially, but require you will be happy to spend several weeks abroad.
You have excellent programming skills for experiments, analysis and statistics (e. g., Matlab, Python, R). In-depth experience with fMRI data acquisition and analysis will be very helpful.
Deadline: Oct. 18, 2019
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Prof. Dr. Tobias Heed
Biopsychology & Cognitive Neuroscience (AE14) / Reach & Touch Lab
Faculty of Psychology & Sports Science | Bielefeld University
Postfach 10 01 31 | D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany
Phone: (49) 521 - 106 67 530 | Fax: (49) 521 - 106 15 67 530
Office: UHG T3-256
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