Postdoctoral Position in Cognitive Neuroscience: MEG lab.

 The international Centre for Cognition & Decision Making (CCDM, Moscow) invites applications for postdoctoral research positions in cognitive neuroscience. The newly established Magnetoencephalographiy (MEG) group provides an access to an Elekta Neuromag Vectorview 306-channel MEG system and associated equipment. The CCDM focuses on E/MEG studies in a range of research strands including normal and pathological neurodynamics, decision making and neuroeconomics, memory, motor control, language and speech, theoretical neuroscience, BCI and other neurotechnologies, neuroimaging methods  (including source modeling techniques).  The postholder will have an opportunity to influence the research agenda, which will be formed in collaboration with the new head of the MEG group and other PIs at the CCDM.

CCDM is a young international English-speaking research center recently established at the Higher School of Economics, a dynamic, ambitious and rapidly growing university. CCDM is located in the historical city center of Moscow and provides access to all major neuroimaging techniques: fMRI, navigated TMS, EEG, MEG, tDCS/tACS, eye-tracking, behavioural measurements etc. CCDM actively cooperates with national and international collaborators such as Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris), MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig), Aalto University (Finland), Center of Functionally Integrative Neuroscience (Aarhus University), Duke University School of Medicine, etc. 

Requirements:

·           The position requires a PhD degree in psychology, neuroscience, physics, applied mathematics, computer science or engineering, with experience of publishing international peer-review paper in cognitive neuroscience.

·           Experience in MEG/EEG, including designing and running experiments, MEG/EEG data analysis, programming in Matlab, Python and R is an advantage.

·           Ability to work in international teams

·           Knowledge of Russian is not required as teaching and research are both conducted in English. 

General conditions for Post-Doctoral Research positions can be found here. 

Application

A CV, research statement should be submitted online application form and two letters of recommendation should be submitted by the referees directly to fellowship@hse.ru by March 15, 2018. Late applications can be also considered if the position is not filled.
Note that direct email applications to the CCDM may not be reviewed – please use online application form. 

About the Higher School of Economics (HSE)

The HSE is a young, dynamic, fast-growing Russian research university. Over the past twenty years, the HSE has become one of Russia's largest universities in the fields of economics, social sciences and humanities, and has earned the reputation of a national leader in higher education. Committed to high-quality research, HSE now has a considerable number of international research laboratories, led by eminent professors from all over the world; more such laboratories were opened in 2018-2019. HSE provides excellent opportunities to teach in English at BA and MS levels. 

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