Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The University of Edinburgh

Fixed-Term: for 2 years, with possible extension up to 5 years

Full-time: 35 hours per week 

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join Dr Jian Gan’s lab in the UK Dementia Research Institute, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

The opportunity:

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral fellow position in Dr Jian Gan’s lab in the UK Dementia Research Institute, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences, at the University of Edinburgh.

We investigate real-time neurocircuit dynamics underlying network oscillations, cognition, and decision-making in vivo. With such knowledge, we sort to elaborate on what, where, when, and how such dynamism goes wrong in disease conditions, e.g. dementia. We approach these questions by a combination of state-of-the-art methodologies in neuroscience, for instance in vivo patch-clamp recording, large-scale silicon probe recording, in vivo Ca2+ imaging, quantitative behaviours in virtual reality, and optogenetics.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Ph.D. in neuroscience/physiology/pharmacology/psychology or related quantitative disciplines (e.g. computer science, engineering, mathematics, and physics).
• A strong curiosity in neural circuits and animal models of neural diseases.
• Experience in electrophysiology or Ca2+ imaging in vivo or patch-clamp recording in vitro is highly desirable.
• Either good experimental skills or strong computational/quantitative ability.
• Some proficiency in relevant programming languages (e.g. MATLAB, C++, Python, R) with regard to analysing electrophysiological data or signal processing of neural networks is advantageous.

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