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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">We are hiring!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">We are looking for an enthusiastic
<b>postdoctoral researcher</b> to lead the mouse work of the <b>Zero-Noise Lab</b> at the
<b>Ernst Strüngmann Institute for Neuroscience</b> <b>in Frankfurt, Germany</b>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b>THE LAB<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">The Zero-Noise Lab investigates how neuronal population activity unfolds in real time during naturalistic behaviour -
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">and how this simultaneously encodes multiple ongoing cognitive processes like learning, attention, and perceptual decision making.
</span>What’s more, we compare this across species: We conduct chronic electrophysiological recordings in the visual cortex of macaques and mice while they perform the same naturalistic foraging task in a virtual environment.
<span lang="EN-GB">We are no fans of cross-trial averaging – if the brain only gets one shot at making sense of its activity, so should we!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-GB"></span>The lab is jointly headed by Marieke Schölvinck and Martha Havenith, and funded by the Max Planck Society. It is a highly collaborative environment - postdocs and
PhD students focus on either mouse or monkey, but work together intensely to constantly align experiments across species.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b>YOU<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">We are looking for a postdoc to lead the mouse side of the lab, while developing their own ideas and research interests.
<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">If you hold (or are about to hold) a Ph.D. in Systems Neuroscience, and are
</span>eager to decipher the neuronal basis of naturalistic cognitive processing in an interdisciplinary lab,<span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"> we would love to hear from you!
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Useful skills:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Experience with electrophysiological recordings in awake animals
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Programming skills (Matlab/Python)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Technical skills to build an electrophysiology set-up<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">- Experience with behavioural training<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b>HOW TO APPLY<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">If you are interested, please send an email to Marieke (<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:marieke.scholvinck@esi-frankfurt.de">marieke.scholvinck@esi-frankfurt.de</a></span>) and Martha
(<span class="MsoHyperlink"><a href="mailto:martha.havenith@esi-frankfurt.de">martha.havenith@esi-frankfurt.de</a></span>) before
<b>September 30, 2020</b>. In your email, please explain your background, what you expect from your postdoc, and why you want to join us. The application remains open until the position is filled. We look forward to hearing from you!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal">Martha and Marieke<o:p></o:p></p>
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