Junior Postdoc Position: Sensorimotor Neuroscience

1000scholars; Nijmegen; Presencial; EUR 42.000 - 56.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Holiday allowance

End-of-year bonus

Extra days off

Flexible working hours

Work from home options

Pension plan

Descripción de la vacante

Radboud Universiteit invites applications for a junior postdoctoral researcher to join an interdisciplinary programme spanning neuroscience, AI and clinical research. You will study how humans perceive, decide and act in uncertain environments, designing experiments and building computational models.

The role includes potential mentoring and teaching tasks, and collaboration with the Donders Institute and broader international partners across Europe.

Formación

• PhD in a relevant field such as sensorimotor neuroscience or AI.
• Strong empirical research background and computational modelling skills.
• Experience with behavioural or patient studies is preferred.

Responsabilidades

• Design and conduct behavioural experiments and develop computational models.
• Investigate multisensory integration and sensorimotor control using Bayesian modelling and optimal control.
• Mentor PhD/MSc/BSc students and contribute to teaching activities.

Conocimientos

Empirical research

Computational modelling

Sensorimotor control

Team collaboration

Educación

PhD in sensorimotor neuroscience / AI / biomedical engineering

Descripción del empleo

Job description

Are you passionate about understanding how people perceive, move and make decisions in complex and uncertain environments? Do you enjoy combining experimental research with computational modelling to tackle fundamental questions about human behaviour?

As a junior postdoctoral researcher you will join an interdisciplinary programme spanning neuroscience, artificial intelligence and clinical research, investigating how humans behave in complex, uncertain environments.

The research aims to uncover the computational principles underlying perception and action, and to translate these insights into innovative technologies for autonomous systems, healthcare and rehabilitation. You will design and conduct behavioural experiments and develop computational models of multisensory integration and sensorimotor control, using approaches such as Bayesian modelling and optimal control theory. Using state-of-the-art methods - including virtual reality, wearable sensing, motion platforms and advanced data analytics - you will place particular emphasis on understanding natural behaviours such as navigation, orienting and reaching.

The position offers a highly collaborative environment, with close interaction with researchers at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour and a wide network of academic, clinical, industrial and societal partners across the Netherlands and Europe.

In addition to research, your responsibilities may include some management, mentoring (PhD, MSc and BSc) and teaching-related tasks.

Requirements

• You hold a PhD degree in a relevant field (e.g. sensorimotor neuroscience, human movement sciences, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, computational neuroscience).
• You have a strong background in empirical research and computational modelling of sensorimotor control and an interest in probabilistic neurocomputing and naturalistic approaches.
• You have experience with behavioural or patient studies.
• Experience supervising students at various levels would be an advantage.
• You have good social, communication and organisational skills.
• You are a team player.

Conditions of employment

We will give you a temporary employment contract of 23 month(s).

Your salary within salary scale 11 depends on your previous education and number of years of (relevant) work experience. The amounts in the scale are based on a 38-hour working week.

• You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will receive extra days off.
• With full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the statutory 20.
• You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan.

Additional employment conditions

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

Employer

Radboud Universiteit Faculty of Social Sciences At the Faculty of Social Sciences, humanity and society are our focus; we study how people behave, think and feel. Within this context, we look at themes such as human behaviour and the human psyche, education and upbringing, communication, society and culture. The faculty provides education to 6,000 students and employs 700 staff. Education is organised into six programme clusters: Psychology; Artificial Intelligence; Pedagogical Sciences and Educational Sciences; Communication Science; Sociology; and Cultural Anthropology and Developmental Sociology, and the Radboud Centre Social Sciences as an institute for post-master education have been merged into the Social Sciences Education Institute. Our research is carried out within three research institutes: the Donders Centre for Cognition, the Behavioural Science Institute, and Radboud Social Cultural Research.

Department

The Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour is a world-class interfaculty research centre that houses more than 700 researchers devoted to understanding the mechanistic underpinnings of the human mind. Research at the Donders Institute is focused around four themes: Language and communication. Perception, action and decision-making. Development and lifelong plasticity. Natural computing and neurotechnology. Excellent, state-of-the-art research facilities are available for the broad range of neuroscience research that is being conducted at the Donders Institute. The Donders Institute fosters a collaborative, multidisciplinary and supportive research environment with a diverse international staff. English is the lingua franca at the Institute. This postdoctoral research position will be embedded in the sensorimotor research group of Prof. Pieter Medendorp. The group’s research focuses on the neural mechanisms of perceptual processing, motor control and sensorimotor integration, building on theory, methods, and findings of psychology, artificial intelligence, neuroscience and related disciplines.