<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear all, <br></div><div><br></div><div>For your information if you have students or postdocs looking for a postdoc position, I recommend Narly's laboratory.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>JB<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Narly Golestani</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch">Narly.Golestani@unige.ch</a>></span><br>Date: Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 6:54 AM<br>Subject: Postdoc position available - computational modeling of fMRI/MEG data, and real-time fMRI neurofeedback of language<br>To: Narly Golestani <<a href="mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch">Narly.Golestani@unige.ch</a>><br></div><br><br>




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<p>I would be grateful if you could please circulate the below job advertisement to anyone who may be interested.
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<p>Many thanks in advance and best wishes,</p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)" lang="EN-US">With the launch of a new ‘NCCR Evolving Language’ (</span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/nfs/Faktenblatt_NCCR_evolvinglanguage_en.pdf" id="m_-8911842318920707085LPlnk89285" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,122,183)" lang="EN-US">http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/nfs/Faktenblatt_NCCR_evolvinglanguage_en.pdf</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12pt">),
 which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, we seek to fill a </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Postdoc position for a four-year project</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> starting
 in September 2020, or at the selected candidate’s earliest convenience.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12pt">Our goal is to make progress in understanding </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">the importance
 of prosody in language processing</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">. To this end, we plan to carry out a set of studies involving both </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">computational modeling of fMRI
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">and/or of</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> MEG data
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">and</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> real-time fMRI neurofeedback
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">to understand the </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">mechanisms whereby prosody and rhythm support linguistic processing per se</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">. The computational modeling work will be
 an extension of our recent work on the neural encoding of acoustic information in speech sounds (</span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31285622" id="m_-8911842318920707085LPlnk498209" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31285622</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12pt">).
 The research will be done in the group of Narly </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Golestani</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> in Geneva (</span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="http://www.brainandlanguagelab.org" id="m_-8911842318920707085LPlnk962268" title="Ctrl+Click or tap to follow the link" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US">www.brainandlanguagelab.org</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12pt">),
 in collaboration with researchers in Switzerland and abroad (Elia </span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Formisano</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> in Maastricht, and Frank
</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Scharnowski</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt"> in Vienna).</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12pt">Applicants should hold a degree in
</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Cognitive Neuroscience</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">,
</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Biomedical Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, or a related field</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">, and should have solid experience in
</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">human brain imaging </span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">and</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> programming</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">, and ideally also
</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">in computational modelling (i.e. encoding / decoding) of fMRI
</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">and/or of</span><b><span style="font-size:12pt"> MEG data, real-time fMRI based neurofeedback, machine learning and statistics</span></b><span style="font-size:12pt">. Knowledge of French would be an asset.
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<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#333333" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:12pt">The NCCR places great emphasis on gender diversity and we particularly encourage women to apply.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)" lang="EN-US">To apply, please send a cover letter, CV, names and contact information of 2-3 references as well as any other relevant
 documents to </span><span style="color:black"><a href="mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,122,183)" lang="EN-US">Narly.Golestani@unige.ch</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)" lang="EN-US">.
 Feel free to contact me should you have any questions. </span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12pt"></span><b><span style="font-size:12pt">Deadline for application: June 30</span>^{<span style="font-size:12pt">th</span>}<span style="font-size:12pt"> 2020.</span></b></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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