Postdoctoral Fellow: Hofstenia Diffuse Brain Neuroscience

Crick; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 41,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Visas sponsorship

Annual leave 28 days

Pension scheme

Health & wellbeing

On-site restaurant

Bike-to-work

Job summary

Francis Crick Institute seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow to lead a project on the diffuse brain of Hofstenia, exploring how distributed circuit tiles enable adaptive behavior. You will combine experimental and computational approaches to map architecture and perturb neural activity to assess effects on behavior.

The role requires a PhD in neuroscience, strong quantitative skills, and experience with neural recordings, coding, and data analysis.

Qualifications

• PhD in neuroscience or a related field
• Strong quantitative background and ability to handle high‑dimensional data
• Familiarity with neural recordings, coding, and data analysis workflows

Responsibilities

• Lead a project on systems neuroscience in Hofstenia, studying distributed circuit function
• Develop and apply experimental and analysis methods to visualise circuit architecture and neural activity
• Collaborate with lab members and external colleagues, mentor students where appropriate
• Report findings at meetings and contribute to peer‑reviewed publications

Skills

PhD neuroscience

Quantitative background

Neural recordings

Coding

Data analysis

Genetic labeling

Publication writing

Behavior studies

Education

PhD in neuroscience

Tools

Neural recording equipment

Computational tools

Job description

Francis Crick Institute seeks a Postdoctoral Fellow to lead a project on the diffuse brain of Hofstenia, exploring how distributed circuit tiles enable adaptive behavior. You will combine experimental and computational approaches to map architecture and perturb neural activity to assess effects on behavior.

The role requires a PhD in neuroscience, strong quantitative skills, and experience with neural recordings, coding, and data analysis.