The Computational Neurophysics lab at the University of Bremen headed by Dr. Udo Ernst offers - under the condition of job release - at the earliest possible date a position until 30.09.2024:

Research Assistant in Computational Neuroscience (f/m/d)

German federal pay scale E13 TV-L (65 %)

for the research project

I-See2 - Improving Intracortical Visual Prostheses Using Complex Coding and Spontaneous Activation States

The lives of many individuals are strongly impaired by missing the sense of vision. One putative option to help them are cortical prostheses. Such devices record images from our environment, encode this information into the 'language' of the brain, and stimulate neuron populations in the visual system for creating a corresponding percept.

I-See2 (www.isee.uni-bremen.de) investigates new principles for building cortical prostheses in an international group with researchers from Canada, Switzerland and Germany. Your position will be at the heart of the project in Bremen, where computational methods are developed and data from our partner labs comes together. You will perform modelling of visual information processing, analysis of data from electrophysiological multielectrode recordings and optical voltage imaging, and be involved in model-driven visual stimulus generation for animal and human experiments. The position comes with direct supervision by the principal investigators and project coordinators Dr. David Rotermund and Dr. Udo Ernst.

Requirements:

Ideal candidates have a master's degree in Computational Neurosciences, Physics, Computer Sciences or in related fields. They must have a strong background in neural networks, dynamical systems, mathematics and/or data analysis, and be experienced in programming (preferably in Python/Matlab). Above all, they must have a strong motivation, a sense for responsibility, a distinct desire to learn, and the ability to proactively collaborate in an international research environment. Fluency in English is required (both written and spoken).

The Computational Neurophysics Lab offers a good working atmosphere, direct involvement in international research and attractive facilities.

The university is family-friendly, diverse and sees itself as an international university. We therefore welcome all applicants regardless of gender, nationality, ethnic and social origin, religion/belief, disability, age, sexual orientation and identity.

As the University of Bremen intends to increase the proportion of female employees in science, women are particularly encouraged to apply. In case of equal personal aptitudes and qualification priority will be given to disabled persons.

Please explicitly address each of the specified requirements in the application. Detailed instructions are described below. Please send your application documents (motivation letter, CV, copy of your degree certificates including high school, list of skills, awards, publications, contact details of two academic reference) until December 9th, 2022 by indicating the job id A325/22 to:

or in electronic form in a summarized PDF file via e-mail: ajanssen@neuro.uni-bremen.de.

For questions of the research project please contact:

Dr. Udo Ernst, E-Mail: udo@neuro.uni-bremen.de

See also for general information on this topic:

http://www.isee.uni-bremen.de

Detailed instructions for applicants

Your application must comprise:

Motivation letter

Your 1-2 page essay should reply the following questions:

• What is your background? In which fields have you worked before and how do you think this can be useful for the present job?

• What attracts you to the field of computational neuroscience?

• Which problem(s) in computational neuroscience are you most interested in?

• What is your motivation to join our project?

• What are your plans for your future career?

Curriculum Vitae

Send a classical tabular CV with your contact details, and all stages of education and employment.

List of skills, awards, publications

List your skills, especially proficiency in languages (including the level of proficiency), that you think might be useful for the job. Also list awards you might have got and peer-reviewed papers, in case there are some.

Contact details of two academic references

One of the references should be your MSc advisor. Please contact the references prior to listing their names so that they are not surprised if they get contacted.

Your application can be in English or German, whatever language you are more familiar with.