Stillingstittel:
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in computational neuroscience/brain physics

Stillingsbeskrivelse:
The University of Oslo is Norway’s largest institution of research and education with 28 000 students and 7000 employees. Its broad range of academic disciplines and internationally esteemed research communities make UiO an important contributor to society.Postdoctoral Research Fellow in computational neuroscience/brain physics

Applications are invited for a post-doctoral position in computational neuroscience/brain physics at the Department of Physics.

The position is funded by the Research Council of Norway as part of the FRINATEK project "COmputing BRAin signals (COBRA): Biophysical computations of electrical and magnetic brain signals". The position is for 2 or 2.5 years and expected start date is in the fall of 2016.

Job/Project description:

The successful candidate will develop and apply physics-based computational methods to model electrical and magnetic brain signals measured inside (local field potential; LFP) and outside (EEG, MEG) cortex. For a review of this biophysical modeling approach, see Einevoll et al., Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2013. In COBRA this modeling work will be compared with corresponding in-house experimental recordings from mouse visual cortex done in the laboratory of Marianne Fyhn at The Department of Biosciences at UiO. The project thus also involves the development of a network model for mouse visual cortex.

The candidate will work in the internationally leading cross-disciplinary environment CINPLA (cinpla.org), a research center set up by the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Presently, CINPLA includes about twenty biologists, physicists, and computer scientists co-localised at in building of The Department of Biosciences at UiO. The candidate will develop and use state-of-the-art computer simulation packages and national supercomputer resources.

Requirements:

The Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences has a strategic ambition of being a leading research faculty. Candidates for these fellowships will be selected in accordance with this, and expected to be in the upper segment of their class with respect to academic credentials.

Applicants must hold a master's degree in physics and have a PhD in either computational neuroscience/biology or physics with a significant computational component. The candidate must have demonstrated strong skills in developing computer modeling codes. The preferred candidate has experience with development and application of code for biophysical forward-modeling of local field potentials and spikes from neurons and neural networks. A good command of English is required.

The main purpose of post-doctoral research fellowships is to qualify researchers for work in top academic positions within their disciplines.

Please also refer to the regulations pertaining to the conditions of employment for post-doctoral fellowship positions, see here.

Salary:

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (SKO 1352) Pay Grade: 57 – 65 (NOK 483 700 – 560 700 per year, depending on qualifications and seniority).

The application must include:

• Application letter
• CV (summarizing education, positions and academic work)
• Copies of educational certificates and transcript of records
• Complete list of publications and academic work
• Up to five highlighted publications
• Names and contact details of 1-2 references who have been asked to send reference letters.

Please remember that all documents should be in English or a Scandinavian language.

In accordance with the University of Oslo's equal opportunities policy, we invite applications from all

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Arbeidsgiver Navn: Universitetet i Oslo, Department of Phys

Arbeidsgiver adresse: 0313 OSLO

Job kort beskrivelse: University and higher education teachers

Land: Norge

Region: Oslo

Kilde til jobbtilbud: NAV, Offentlige arbeidsformidlinger, Norge

Lønn valuta: NOK

Lønn periode: Pr. år