<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>As part of the newly established Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind", I would like to announce a PhD position that will be placed in my lab at Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. The position can be filled anytime from January 2026, once the interviews have been completed. With the position, you will have the opportunity to interact with an amazing team of scientists based at JLU Giessen, my team at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, and collaborating researchers around the world.</div><div><br></div><div>The project aims at gaining a much deeper understanding of visual representations than what has previously been understood. Building on our previous work (<a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00951-3" target="_blank">https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-020-00951-3</a>), we aim at characterizing dimensions underlying mental object representations for a much broader range of visual content than investigated previously. Depending on the progress and interest, there will also be the opportunity to work on cross-cultural comparisons, using virtual reality to interact with scenes where we manipulate individual dimensions, and relating these representations to artificial intelligence systems.</div><div><br></div><div>Our labs in Giessen and Leipzig feature a diverse, multidisciplinary and driven team of young scientists that work on topics around vision science, cognitive neuroscience, and computational neuroscience.</div><div><br></div><div>This specific position requires a strong interest in visual and cognitive computational neuroscience and very good to excellent programming skills in Python.</div><div><br></div><div>Giessen offers a unique, world-class community of vision researchers, with many young colleagues collaborating on related topics, regular colloquia with excellent speakers, and multiple training opportunities for young scientists.</div><div><br></div><div>The official job ad can be found here (application deadline Nov 25):<br><a href="https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/karriere/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/531-11-e" target="_blank">https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/karriere/stellenangebote/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter/531-11-e</a></div><div><br></div><div>Please apply here:</div><div><a href="https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/karriere/application" target="_blank">https://www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns/karriere/application</a><br>Important: Please use reference number 531/11</div><div><br></div><div>If you have questions about the positions, please reach out to me at <a href="mailto:martin.hebart@gmail.com">martin.hebart@gmail.com</a><br><br>Best wishes,<br>Martin</div></div>
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