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<span style="font-weight: bold">Multiple postdoctoral and PhD
positions are available </span>in an ERC-funded project exploring
deep-learning implementations of the Global Workspace theory. <br>
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We are seeking highly motivated and dedicated students and post-docs
to join our group in Toulouse, France in the Fall of 2025.
Successful candidates will have formal training in AI, Computer
Science or related fields (e.g. computational neuroscience), and a
keen interest in cognitive neuroscience. Our ERC Advanced Grant
"GLoW" (2023-2028) aims to take inspiration from neuroscience and
cognitive theories to build deep neural network models of cognition,
capable of integrating or "grounding" information across sensory and
linguistic modalities, and of displaying flexible cognitive
behavior. We will also use advanced AI models to improve the
decoding and understanding of brain activity. Details on the ideas
that will be developed in the project can be found in this <a
href="https://www.cell.com/trends/neurosciences/fulltext/S0166-2236(21)00077-1"
moz-do-not-send="true">Opinion paper</a>. The project is headed by
Rufin VanRullen (CNRS, Toulouse, France), with external advisors
Ryota Kanai (Araya, Tokyo, Japan) and Murray Shanahan (ICL/Deepmind,
London, UK).<br>
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<a href="https://rufinv.github.io/" moz-do-not-send="true">Our lab</a>
is part of the <a href="https://cerco.cnrs.fr/en"
moz-do-not-send="true">CerCo Institute</a> as well as the <a
href="https://aniti.univ-toulouse.fr/en/" moz-do-not-send="true">Artificial
and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI)</a>. Our team
has many opportunities to collaborate with neuroscientists, computer
scientists, linguists, roboticists etc. We have direct access to
fMRI recording facilities and to in-house (GPU) computing clusters
as well as research-dedicated supercomputers. <br>
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Typical appointments for post-docs are for 2 years (renewable for a
3rd or 4th year), and 3-years for PhD. The beginning post-doc salary
is 2,700 Euros/month (net), and can reach 3,300 Euros/month (net)
for more experienced post-docs. The PhD stipend is 2,000 Euros/month
(net). We expect to hire several candidates by the Fall of 2025, but
will continue to recruit exceptional applicants in the foreseeable
future. To apply, please <a title="email"
href="mailto:rufin.vanrullen@cnrs.fr" moz-do-not-send="true">send
a CV and a letter</a> explaining your research interests and
motivations to: rufin.vanrullen [at] cnrs.fr <br>
Any questions should also be directed to the same address. <br>
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Applications received before April 1st, 2025 will be given full
consideration, but we will continue to accept outstanding
applications after this date.<br>
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