[visionlist] Postdoctoral Position, University of London

[Wann JP]

Postdoctoral Position: Mechanisms in the control of ego-motion and collision avoidance

Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham, Surrey: 16km from Heathrow Airport)

 

18 months appointment: Salary up to £50,338 p.a. (inc EC mobility allowance)

Initial Closing date: July 17th 2009

 

This position is funded by an EU Marie Curie Network project and will be based in the Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway College, Univ of London, working with the Wann/Smith research groups. The wider network involves collaboration with groups at: Birmingham, UK, Paris, Marseille, Geissen, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Thessaloniki, Volvo Technology Sweden, Brain Innovation and VR Sense.

 

Under the terms of EU Marie Curie funding, applicants for this post cannot be UK nationals or have spent more than 12 months in the UK during the 3 years previous to the start date of the position.

 

John Wann's group (http://www.rdg.ac.uk/arl/) conducts research into the human perception in everyday settings, with specific interests in the control of steering and judgments of impending collision. Andy Smith's group conducts research into the neural processing of optic flow. (http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/vision/VRG-ATS.htm) The project will involve behavioural and fMRI studies of the control of ego-motion and errors in the perception of impending collisions.

 

Initial queries can be made to J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk or A.T.Smith at rhul.ac.uk Further information about the Dept and scanner facility can be found at: 

http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/

http://www.pc.rhul.ac.uk/web/research/mri.htm

 

An application form are available to download at www.rhul.ac.uk/personnel/jobvacancies.htm or from HR at recruitment at rhul.ac.uk or tel: 01784 414241. Please quote the reference X0609/5440

 

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community

 

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Prof John Wann    J.P.Wann at rhul.ac.uk  

Dept of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX

Tel: +44 (0)1784 276177   Fax: +44 (0)1784 434347 ( Reading: +44 (0)118 3788418 )

Action Research Labs: http://www.rdg.ac.uk/ARL

 

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