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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Dear Vision Science community,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The Perception lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt (PI: Thomas Wallis) is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow to start as soon as possible. The position is for
an initial period of three years, with possible extension until October 2028, and is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">The goals of the grant are to study how people infer which parts of a scene belong to which objects, how the rich information provided by the projection of the 3D world into
our eyes contributes to these inferences, and how these processes might be learned. The candidate will be responsible for using modelling methods, in particular unsupervised machine learning and Bayesian computational modelling, to drive insights into how
scene representations can be learned from retinal inputs. The postdoc will work closely with a PhD student using computer graphics methods for dataset simulation, and will be embedded within the environment of the lab group.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">There is substantial opportunity for the candidate to shape the precise research direction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Prerequisites:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- Doctoral degree in cognitive science, computer science, psychology, or related fields<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- familiarity with Python, MATLAB or similar programming languages,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- proficient in English,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- excellent communication, analytic and software skills,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- organizational skills, highly motivated, team-player<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Desirable:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- previous experience using computational models of vision to study perceptual decisions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- previous experience using deep neural networks to study human visual processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">- familiarity with the emerging field of “neuroAI”, as evidenced by conference attendance, publications, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">My lab group strives to provide an inclusive, supportive and collaborative environment (<a href="https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception/home_per/index.en.jsp">https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception/home_per/index.en.jsp</a>).
We are part of the Center for Cognitive Science at the Technical University of Darmstadt (<a href="https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs/index.en.jsp">https://www.tu-darmstadt.de/cogsci/ccs/index.en.jsp</a>), which offers a vibrant and exciting intellectual
environment for research in cognitive science. We are also strongly connected to other universities in the region via The Adaptive Mind collaboration (<a href="https://www.theadaptivemind.de">https://www.theadaptivemind.de</a>) and the Center for Mind, Brain
and Behavior in Marburg (<a href="https://www.cmbb-fcmh.de/de">https://www.cmbb-fcmh.de/de</a>). German language proficiency is not required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">More information and the application procedure can be found here:
<a href="https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception/home_per/job_openings_per/index.en.jsp">
https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception/home_per/job_openings_per/index.en.jsp</a>. Please feel free to reach out with informal enquiries to
<a href="mailto:thomas.wallis@tu-darmstadt.de">thomas.wallis@tu-darmstadt.de</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Best wishes,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light"">Thomas Wallis<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Prof. Thomas S. A. Wallis, PhD (he/him)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Institut</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">e
of Psychology </span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">& Cent</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">re</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
for Cognitive Science<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Technical University of</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">
Darmstadt<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://www.psychologie.tu-darmstadt.de/perception"><span style="color:#0563C1">Perception Lab Website</span></a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Xs2TXzAAAAAJ&hl=en"><span style="color:#0563C1">Google scholar</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue Light";color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tsawallis.bsky.social"><span style="color:#0563C1">Bluesky</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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