[visionlist] Open Position on the PhD Level: Forschungszentrum Jülich, INM-6, Germany

[Junji Ito]

Dear colleagues,

I'd like to announce a call for PhD student in Forschungszentrum Jülich,
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-6), Jülich, Germany.
Those who are interested in this offer, please contact Prof. Sonja Grün
(s.gruen at fz-juelich.de) with the application material described below.

Best,
Junji Ito

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Open Position on the PhD Level

A PhD position is available in a BMBF-funded research project "Impact of
top-down influence on visual processing during free viewing: multi-scale
analysis of multi-area massively parallel recordings of the visual pathway".
This project is in the framework of Strategic Japanese‐German
Cooperative Research Program on Computational Neuroscience jointly
funded by JST and BMBF.
As the German part of the project team, the group of Prof. Sonja Grun in
INM-6 for Computational and Systems Neuroscience is seeking an
outstanding PhD candidate highly motivated to work on the analysis of
massively parallel recordings (spikes and local field potentials) from
monkey visual cortices.

Applicants should primarily have background(s) in computational
neuroscience, physics, mathematics or related areas.
Good programming skills in Python, MATLAB or C/C++ are preferable.
The position is already open, and the project will last until March 2015.
This project will be conducted under a tight collaboration with Japanese
experimental and theoretical partners (Prof. Hiroshi Tamura, Osaka
Univ.; Prof.  Shigeru Shinomoto, Kyoto Univ.), including annual progress
meetings and associated long-term work stays in Japan (for a month).
Applicants should enjoy this interdisciplinary and international
research environment.
The working place will be INM-6 for Computational and Systems
Neuroscience, which is a part of the Institute of Neuroscience and
Medicine (INM) in Forschungszentrum Julich, Germany.
The working language will be English.

The call remains open until the position is filled.
If you are interested please contact s.gruen at fz-juelich.de with your
electronic CV, list of publication (if applicable), letters of
reference, research interests and a statement of motivation.


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Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH
52425 Juelich
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich
Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498
Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher
Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender),
Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt,
Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt
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