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We have an opening for a postdoctoral fellow to join an interdisciplinary team of researchers (Psychology, Psychiatry and Computer Science) on a project funded by the UK Medical Research Council. The position is funded for 12 months, with a likely additional
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">The project involves using</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">an
innovative</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: red;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">set of</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">computational
graphics</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">tools that allow people to create </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">personalised</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: red;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">facial
expressions using a genetic algorithm (GA) - developed by</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">our</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">computer
science team - to measure emotion recognition. There are 2 PDRAs hired on this project, one based in Computer Science and one based in Psychology and the successful candidate would replace the PDRA in the Psychology team</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; color: red;" class="">,
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">who is moving on to a fellowship</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">. This is a highly inter-disciplinary project and the successful
candidate would h</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">elp develop psychophysical and behavioural tests to measure emotion recognition using the GA faces,</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">work</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">ing</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">closely
with the PDRA in computer science. </span><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">The post is based at Queen Mary </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">University</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> of
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Informal enquiries can be directed to Isabelle Mareschal at <a href="mailto:i.mareschal@qmul.ac.uk" class="">
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The post has a closing date 17 July 2021.</div>
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Reader in Visual Cognition<br class="">
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