Required for the 3 positions:

• A PhD in neuroscience, biomedical engineering, statistics, neurology, psychiatry, neuropsychology, or related field.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken); Spanish is not required
• Scripting languages (e.g. Matlab, Python, R)
• Strong publication record

Desired for the 3 positions:

• Knowledge of the basic and clinical neuroscience of learning, memory, emotion and responses to novelty
• Demonstrated ability to secure research funding
• Enthusiasm for communicating scientific advances

Specific requirements for each position:

Position 1. The successful candidate will be highly competent in the acquisition and analysis of intracranial electrophysiological local field potential recordings. We primarily use the Fieldtrip toolbox for human intracranial analyses, so experience with Fieldtrip (or SPM12) is desirable. Knowledge of measures of between-region connectivity is essential. A dataset of >30 patients with intracranial recordings during various memory tasks is already available. Additional recordings are on-going in Madrid and Zurich. The successful candidate will work on hippocampal responses to various types of salience, with an emphasis on hippocampal-cortical and hippocampal-amygdala coupling.

Position 2. The successful candidate will be expert in the acquisition and analysis of magnetoencephalography (MEG) recordings (the lab currently uses Fieldtrip and Brainstorm packages, primarily). Expertise in design and optimisation of cognitive tasks during MEG recordings is required. The successful candidate will lead the simultaneous acquisition of MEG and nucleus accumbens deep brain stimulation (DBS) in psychiatric patients using flexible head cast technology. Experience with EEG recordings is also desirable, as some DBS patients are also recorded from using a high density EEG system in the Hospital setting.

Position 3. The successful candidate will be expert in the acquisition and analysis of structural and functional MRI data using SPM, FSL, Freesurfer and/or Ants. Expertise in design and optimisation of cognitive tasks during fMRI recordings is required. The successful candidate will lead the functional MRI scanning of innovative tasks testing hypotheses generated from intracranial recordings. This research associate will also devise measurements of structural connectivity associated with memory effects observed in patients undergoing deep brain stimulation.

General responsibilities applicable to all Research Associate positions:

• Help mentor graduate students in the lab
• Attend weekly lab meetings
• Coordinate your data acquisition between the lab and different Hospitals, both within Spain and abroad (UK and Switzerland). A project manager will assist you.
• Present research findings at international conferences. Each position comes with a travel budget of 2000 euros per year for e.g. 2 European or 1 Intercontinental trip per year.