The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark,

invites applications for Assistant or Associate Professor with

research focus in Neural Robotics, Bio-inspired or Biorobotics, available

from January 2018 and based in Odense.

 

The positions are based in the Embodied Systems for Robotics and

Learning (ESRL) unit and will complement the unit's existing research

activities:

 

  - biorobotics;

 

  - neural models of control for embodied robots;

 

  - bio-inspired / neural learning mechanisms;

 

  - cross-modal and multi-modal sensory interpretation;

 

  - development of bio-inspired and embodied robotic hardware;

 

  - bio-inspired collective behaviour in robot groups;

 

  - embedded electronics design and research;

 

  - development and use of robotic educational tools;

 

  - morphological computation and the role of embodiment.

 

Duties comprise research and teaching, student project supervision and

acquisition of external funding.

 

If you have a Ph.D. in a computing, mathematical, computational

neuroscience or robotics-related discipline and a research track

record including strong interdisciplinary work in one or more of the

topics above, send us an application: for more detail and application

form see [1].  The closing date is the 27th of October, 2017.

 

For more information about these positions, please contact Professor

John Hallam <john@mmmi.sdu.dk>.

 

[1] https://ssl1.peoplexs.com/Peoplexs22/CandidatesPortalNoLogin/Vacancy.cfm?PortalID=3795&VacatureID=932440