[visionlist] Tenure-track post, University of Edinburgh

[John Henderson]

Tenure Track Academic Fellowship in Visual Cognition

The University of Edinburgh, UK, invites applications for an Academic  
Fellowship in Visual Cognition. This prestigious Fellowship is for a  
period of five years and is intended to lead to a permanent academic  
appointment (tenure track). This is an ideal position for a young,  
motivated researcher, as it allows a focus on research without  
teaching duties in the early years of the appointment. You will  
engage in basic research and have the potential to collaborate  
actively with other members of the visual cognition community. Visual  
cognition is expanding at Edinburgh with the recent appointment of a  
Chair in Visual Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, newly appointed  
Lecturers in related areas in Psychology, Informatics and  
Neuroinformatics, expanding neuroimaging facilities, and  
consolidation of vision researchers from across the university within  
George Square. Candidates with research interests in any area of  
human visual cognition are encouraged to apply, including (but not  
limited to) visual attention, visual search, eye movement control,  
visually guided action, object and scene perception and recognition,  
and visual memory. You might use one or more methodologies including  
psychophysics, behavioural methods, eyetracking, computational or  
mathematical modeling, and cognitive neuroimaging. You will  
complement and extend existing strengths in the visual cognition  
group within Psychology.

You will have the opportunity to take part in the growth of one of  
the leading centres for cognitive science, neuroscience, cognition  
and computation worldwide, based in one of the most attractive and  
culturally rich cities in Europe. Ongoing research is supported by  
substantial funding from UK and overseas research councils and the  
Wellcome Trust, as well as through a significant portfolio of  
industrial collaborations and research contracts.

You should have a PhD or equivalent experience. Preference will be  
given to those candidates who have a record in applying for, and  
being successful in obtaining research funding.

Informal enquiries may be addressed to Professor John M. Henderson,  
tel. +44 131 650 9863 or email John.M.Henderson at ed.ac.uk

Apply online plus a CV, list of publications and grants and a  
statement of research interests (www.jobs.ed.ac.uk). Alternatively,  
telephone the recruitment line on 0131 650 2511. Ref: 3006335TH.  
Closing date: 1 December 2006.

Committed to Equality and Diversity

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Additional Background

A hallmark of the University of Edinburgh is the large and  
interactive cognitive science community, with a tradition of research  
combining behavioral and computational methods, and a strong  
commitment to the integration of the cognitive and neural sciences.  
Within Psychology, cognition is heavily represented in the Human  
Cognitive Neuroscience and the Language and Cognition units. Beyond  
Psychology, the School of Informatics is the only department in the  
UK awarded a top (5*A) rating in the RAE exercise and focuses on how  
natural and artificial systems store, process and communicate  
information. Excellent opportunities exist for interactions with  
colleagues in cross-disciplinary units including the Institute of  
Perception, Action and Behaviour (IPAB), the Institute for Adaptive  
and Neural Computation (ANC), the Human Communication Research Centre  
(HCRC), and Cognitive Science within the School of Informatics.  
Ground has been broken for the Informatics Forum, a new state-of-the- 
art building that will house integrated office and research space, co- 
locating within George Square students and staff in computational and  
cognitive neuroscience, informatics, cognitive psychology and  
cognitive science, language sciences, and related areas. The Forum  
will house a Cognitive Imaging Unit with research-dedicated  
neuroimaging facilities directed toward research in brain and  
cognition. Extensive eyetracking facilities are also available in the  
School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences for the study  
of scene perception, reading, and the integration of language and  
vision.

The University of Edinburgh (http://www.ed.ac.uk) is situated in the  
heart of Scotland's capital city (http://www.ed.ac.uk/city).  
Edinburgh has a rich cultural life, culminating in the annual  
International Festival of Music and Drama, the International Film  
Festival, the International Jazz Festival, the International Book  
Festival and the International Festival Fringe. There are numerous  
public and private art galleries, concert halls, and theatres.  
Edinburgh is one of Europe's most beautiful capital cities, with a  
legacy of mediaeval and Georgian architecture awarded UNESCO World  
Heritage Site designation, and is visited by over 2 million people  
each year, second only to London as the most visited destination in  
the British Isles.
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