[visionlist] Post-doctoral position, Royal Holloway, London, UK

[Wann JP]

Postdoctoral Position:  
Mechanisms in the control of ego-motion and collision avoidance
Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham: 16km from Heathrow Airport)

18 months appointment: Salary up to GBP50,338 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.

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 

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.

An application form are available to download at
www.rhul.ac.uk/personnel/jobvacancies.htm  . Please quote the reference
X0609/5440

We positively welcome applications from all sections of the community