PhD Candidate in Computational Neuroscience (Remote)

Centre de Recerca Matemàtica; España; Presencial; EUR 25.000 - 27.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Full-time 37.5h

FPI salary €25,456

Training and development opportunities

Flexible working hours and teleworking

Descripción de la vacante

The Computational Neuroscience group at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) is inviting applications for a PhD student position funded by the FPI programme under the project “Explaining away as a canonical mechanisms of human perception.” The contract is four years and should start before July 2027.

The successful candidate will work on computational and neural mechanisms behind visual and auditory perception at CRM in Barcelona, under supervision of Alexandre Hyafil, with opportunities for

Formación

• Master's degree in neuroscience, ML, cognitive psychology or related.
• Fluency in spoken and written English.
• Knowledge and/or strong interest in computational, cognitive and systems neuroscience, esp. visual and auditory perception.
• High programming skills in Python or Matlab.
• Clarity of exposition of scientific results.
• Ability to work independently, as well as part of a team.

Responsabilidades

• Develop computational models of visual and auditory perception.
• Develop behavioral, EEG and intra-cranial EEG experiments in human participants.
• Collect behavioral and EEG data from human adult participants.
• Analyze behavioral, EEG and intra-cranial EEG data.
• Fit computational models to experimental data.
• Write research manuscript with research outputs.
• Participate in weekly journal clubs and group meetings.

Conocimientos

Masters in neuroscience

Machine learning

Cognitive psychology

Fluency in English

Educación

Master Degree

MSC

Herramientas

Python

MATLAB

Descripción del empleo

The Computational Neuroscience group at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica (CRM) is inviting applications for a PhD student position funded by the FPI programme under the project “Explaining away as a canonical mechanisms of human perception.” The contract is four years and should start before July 2027.

The successful candidate will work on computational and neural mechanisms behind visual and auditory perception at CRM in Barcelona, under supervision of Alexandre Hyafil, with opportunities for