<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><font color="#000000">Dear All, </font></span><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000">There are several open positions available in the Dynamics of Neural Systems laboratory in the beautiful city of Vienna. The positions are generously funded as part of a 1.6m career grant from the<span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) 0px; white-space: pre; line-height: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://wwtf.at/funding/programmes/vrg/VRG24-002/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://wwtf.at/funding/programmes/vrg/VRG24-002/&source=gmail&ust=1749909281911000&usg=AOvVaw04TSlwmbUCGbi-mTqd04VN" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232); box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; border: 0px rgb(10, 102, 194); word-break: normal; line-height: inherit;"><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgb(10, 102, 194); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: none; background-position: 0% 0%; background-size: auto; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: padding-box; background-clip: border-box; outline: rgb(10, 102, 194) 0px; line-height: inherit;">Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF)</span></a><span style="white-space: pre;">.</span></font></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><font color="#000000">The call is <u><b>primarily targeted towards computer scientists and roboticists</b></u> (or similar computational scientists) who are motivated to work with large-scale neural recordings and motion capture data, and develop and d</font></span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;">eploy at-scale vision-language-action models to drive physics-based simulations of movement. The project aims to generate data-driven insights into the neural control of locomotion. </span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;">As my group is driven by theoretical research, <u><b>we also welcome open-ended applications from scientists with strong mathematical backgrounds</b></u>.</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">For more details and to apply, follow this <a href="https://forms.gle/Vk2o7PSBdGFyfUae9" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://forms.gle/Vk2o7PSBdGFyfUae9&source=gmail&ust=1749909281911000&usg=AOvVaw13OPJz3qUEPEluS6l4KhXn" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232);">link</a>.</span></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);"><br></span></span></div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">If you like the type of work we do (e.g., <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02582-2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-024-02582-2&source=gmail&ust=1749909281911000&usg=AOvVaw31yyNAnFWwsABCYnX-xc-M" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232);">MARBLE</a></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); white-space: pre; line-height: inherit;"> </span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">or <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01226-z" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01226-z&source=gmail&ust=1749909281911000&usg=AOvVaw2Hv85ycjvKkcvAMhS0Fo1_" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232);">LiftPose3D</a></span><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9);">), be sure you apply.</span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"></span><span style="box-sizing: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: repeat; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9) 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); line-height: inherit;"><br style="box-sizing: inherit; line-height: inherit;"></span></span><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;">Feel free to reach out with informal enquiries.</span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.9); font-size: 14px;">All the best,</span></div><span style="font-size: 14px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><br><br></span><div style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><div dir="auto" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px;">—————<br>Adam Gosztolai<br><br>Assistant Professor<br>AI Institute<br>Medical University of Vienna<br><br>Research Affiliate<br>McGovern Institute for Brain Research<br>MIT<br><br><a href="http://gosztolai-lab.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&q=http://gosztolai-lab.org/&source=gmail&ust=1749909281911000&usg=AOvVaw2LKTu4PjzGBnyYZlzMx7bm" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(26, 115, 232);">gosztolai-lab.org</a></span></div></div></body></html>