[visionlist] Postdoctoral position in systems neuroscience, City College of New York

[Simon Kelly]

Postdoctoral position in systems neuroscience, City College of New York

A postdoctoral "Endeavor Scientist" position funded by the Child Mind
Institute (CMI) is available starting this Fall in the lab of Simon
Kelly at the City College of New York. The endeavor scientist will
work on basic and clinical projects mainly using human
electroencephalogram (EEG) recordings, under the joint supervision of
Simon Kelly (http://bme.ccny.cuny.edu/people/faculty/skelly) of the
Department of Biomedical Engineering, CCNY and Michael Milham
(http://www.childmind.org/en/directory/clinicians/mmilham) of CMI. The
position will involve analysis of data obtained from clinical and
non-clinical populations at the Child Mind Institute and its
collaborators, in addition to conducting basic studies of perception
and cognition in the Kelly lab, particularly focusing on decision
making and attention. A major goal will be to develop novel paradigms
and data analysis approaches that allow neural signals to be linked
with well-defined perceptual/cognitive computations, and to deploy
these paradigms and approaches to studies at CMI. Clinical studies
will be mainly in child and adolescent populations associated with
clinically significant anxiety, attentional dysfunction, emotional
dysregulation and learning impairments. Any innovative tools developed
in the course of this position will be made publicly available.

Applicants must have a Ph.D. in neuroscience or related field,
including neural/biomedical engineering, applied mathematics and
computer science. The candidate must have strong analytic/quantitative
skills, be proficient in programming (especially Matlab), and have
experience in psychophysics and EEG recording and analysis. Experience
with fMRI is a strong plus, as some projects may involve a multimodal
EEG/fMRI approach. The ideal candidate will be reliable, highly
motivated, and will be equally productive when working independently
or cooperatively.

Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, contact information for
three references, and a cover letter with a brief description of past
research accomplishments as well as future research interests and
career goals to Simon Kelly at skelly2 at ccny.cuny.edu.