<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><span style="color:black;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12pt">Dear All,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br>The Sasaki Lab (</span><a href="https://www.nips.ac.jp/eng/research/group/post-67/" target="_blank" style="color:blue"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://www.nips.ac.jp/eng/research/group/post-67/</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">) at the National Institute for Physiological Sciences (</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000">NIPS</font></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">; Okazaki, Japan) is seeking to hire a postdoctoral fellow</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">who will work on one of the following topics: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">flexible multisensory integration systems, spatial navigation systems, <font color="#000000">balancing system for risk-reward decisions, or tracking and avoidance systems</font></span><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica">.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></font></p><span class="gmail-im" style=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica"><br></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Although it is preferable for candidates to have research experience using macaque monkeys, we also welcome applications from highly motivated researchers with experience in research with animals other than macaque monkeys, and with an interest in animal psychology, systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience, and/or artificial intelligence.</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><br></font><br><font color="#000000">The National Institute for Physiological Sciences (NIPS) is the core national research institute for fundamental physiology in Japan, aiming for promoting research in physiology on the molecular, cellular, organ, and individual levels, with the purpose of ultimately comprehensively elucidating the brain functions.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></p></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">Sasaki Lab houses the </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">virtual reality (VR) system to realistically recreate various natural environments for cognitive tasks to clarify the dynamics of brain networks <font color="#000000">underlying</font> flexible cognitive behaviors and decision-making using non-human primates.</span></p><span class="gmail-im" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">If you have any questions, please send an email to Ryo Sasaki (</span><u style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:rsasaki@nips.ac.jp" target="_blank" style="color:blue">rsasaki@nips.ac.jp</a></span></u><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black">). </span></p></span><font color="#888888"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br>Ryo Sasaki</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Helvetica;color:black"><br></span></p></font></div></div>