Junior Researchers: Postdoctoral Fellow, Graduate student or Research assistant in Computational Neuroscience within the BRADY project - Ref. No. 2025/11

Junior researcher positions are available in the Complex Networks and Brain Dynamics group (COBRA, https://cobra.cs.cas.cz/) at the Institute of Computer Science, Prague, Czech Republic (https://www.cs.cas.cz/en). These positions are centered in the Research Work Package 1 (RWP1) of a larger, interdisciplinary consortium established for the OPJAK BRADY project. 

The relevant RWP1 aims to establish a family of generative models of graded complexity capturing brain dynamics that would:

• Approximate spatial patterns observed in resting state neuroimaging, including topology and topography of functional connectivity.
• Approximate temporal brain dynamics, including activity fluctuations, connectivity dynamics, and information flow.
• Provide an internally consistent unified account of electrophysiological and fMRI data, linking to biologically interpretable latent variables and structural connectivity.
• Allow predicting the effect of external stimulation, such as complex sensory and cognitive tasks, electric of magnetic stimulation, or pharmacological intervention.
• Allow capturing the key axes of inter-subject variability, linking it to psychometric data.
• Ultimately allow characterizing and predicting the trajectory of deviation from healthy brain dynamics in a range of psychiatric and neurological diseases.

Further information can be found here: https://brady.cs.cas.cz/.

Conditions:

• Positions are available immediately, i.e. starting from 1. 3. 2025 or later.
• Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
• Contract is for 12-36 months duration, with exceptions negotiable.
• Possibility of extension until end of project (30. 6. 2028), support for transition to tenure-track or external funding applications.
• This is a full-time fixed term contract appointment. Part time contract negotiable.
• Competitive salary based on qualifications and experience.
• Bonuses and travel funding for conferences and research stays depending on performance.
• No teaching duties.

Applicants should:

1. Hold a PhD with the exception of Research assistant and Graduate student positions.
2. Have a strong background (commensurate to the respective career level) in some of the fields related to computational neuroscience - mathematical, statistical skills, experience with data analysis, machine learning, computer programming.
3. Be fluent in English.

We seek curious, self-motivated, hard-working, team-spirited researchers.
Prior experience with time series and network analysis is advantageous, but not required.

For informal inquiries do not hesitate to contact the project Scientific Coordinator: Ing. Mgr. Jaroslav Hlinka, Ph.D., hlinka@cs.cas.cz, http://www.cs.cas.cz/hlinka/.

The applications are to be sent to bradyadmin@cs.cas.cz and should contain:

1.      Curriculum Vitae.

2.      Two letters of recommendation. The referees should send their recommendations directly to bradyadmin@cs.cas.cz.

3.      A proof of the obtained degree.

4.      Mention the Ref. No. 2025/11.

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