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2011 PhD Studentship: fMRI Decoding of Mental State at Radboud University, Netherlands

We invite applications for a PhD position at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour. You will be working on the NWO project Sparse Learning of Deep Models which aims to improve the decoding of what someone perceives or imagines from brain activity alone. In this project, you will develop probabilistic machine learning methods and collect fMRI data at the institute’s 3 Tesla MRI facility.

You are highly motivated and have a Master’s degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, or a related field of study. Experience with Matlab programming and data analysis is a must. Experience with functional magnetic resonance imaging and/or machine learning is desirable. You should have a demonstrated interest in and qualification for scientific research, be able to work in an interdisciplinary team in an international context, and have excellent writing skills in English.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 31 May 2011

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Posdoctoral Research Fellowship-School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK

You will focus on exploring the photodynamic behaviour of organic and biological molecules in the gas phase, using ion imaging and Rydberg tagging methods, and seek to extend such investigations experimentally (developing laser desorption methods to prepare involatile molecules in the gas phase) and computationally (by complementary electronic structure calculations).

This project is a component part of the FP7 Initial Training Network, ICONIC, involving partner groups in Radboud University (Nijmegen), AMOLF (Amsterdam), Vrije University (Amsterdam), University of Leeds, University of Oxford, Albert-Ludwigs Universitaet (Freiburg), J. Heyrovsky Institute (Prague), FORTH (Crete), CEA Saclay, Universite Paul Sabatier (Toulouse) and Roentdek (Germany).

You should be a non-UK national, have (or be about to receive) a PhD in chemistry, chemical physics, or related discipline, and a proven record of experience with as many of the following as possible: tuneable nanosecond pulsed laser systems, high vacuum technology, imaging methods, laser desorption methods, excited state electronic structure calculations.

If successful, you may be appointed either on a fixed term or a permanent contract depending on the extent of your previous relevant research experience.

The closing date for applications is 9.00am, 23 August 2010

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2011 PhD Studentship: fMRI Decoding of Mental State at Radboud University, Netherlands

Posdoctoral Research Fellowship-School of Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK