Two postdoctoral positions are available in the group of Sophie Deneve, Ecole Normale supérieure, Paris.  Positions are for two years, and comes with competitive salary and generous equipment and travel funds.  The team is part of the “Group for neural theory” (http://iec-lnc.ens.fr/group-for-neural-theory/) and surrounded by top-level theoretical and experimental labs.

Candidates are expected to have a solid training in the field of computational neuroscience, proven quantitative and programming skills and a strong interest in integrative neuroscience. Starting dates are flexible, but should preferentially occur before September 2015.

Candidates should send their application to sophie.deneve@ens.fr by March 31, 2015. Please mention “postdoctoral candidate” in the subject of the email.  Application should take the form of a single PDF file, containing a CV, motivation letter, names and email addresses of 2 to 3 referees.  No official letter of recommendations are required, as the referees will be contacted directly.

Main research directions in the lab are:

Efficient coding in spiking networks (theory and data analyses).

Probabilistic approaches to sensory processing (theory and data analyses).

Hierarchical inference and learning in neural networks, application to schizophrenia (psychophysics experiment and theory)