Job offer

Organisation/Company INSERM/CEA

Department NeuroSpin

Research Field Neurosciences

Researcher Profile First Stage Researcher (R1)

Positions Postdoc Positions

Country France

Application Deadline 30 Jun 2025 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris)

Type of Contract Temporary

Job Status Full-time

Hours Per Week 35

Offer Starting Date 1 Sep 2025

Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Horizon Europe - ERC

Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

The Cognition & Brain Dynamics lab studies temporal cognition, how the brain represents time, measures and stores durations, builds temporal expectations, orient attention in past or future, and more generally, structure events in temporal cognitive maps. Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral scholar funded by the ERC Synergy Grant “Chronology: the geometry of temporal cognitive maps” whose main goal is to assess the geometry of temporal cognitive maps.

Where to apply

E-mail: Virginie.van-Wassenhove@cea.fr

Requirements

Research Field Neurosciences » Neuropsychology

Education Level PhD or equivalent

Skills/Qualifications:

• Hold a Ph.D. in cognitive neurosciences, neurosciences, psychology or related fields
• Solid record of internationally peer-reviewed published work
• Strong to expert interest in temporal cognition, cognitive maps, memory
• Mastery of English language (fluent oral and written communication)
• Experience in neuroscience, cognitive neuroscience, and/or computational neuroscience
• Human neuroimaging (MEG, EEG, and/or fMRI)
• Programming (Python preferred)
• Analysis of multivariate neuroimaging data, dimensionality reduction techniques, machine learning, decoding
• Scientific integrity
• Autonomy in problem-solving and learning new skills
• Organized and pro-active
• Collegial, good lab citizen

Languages: ENGLISH Level Excellent

Additional Information

Salary will be commensurate with the level of experience.

General description of postdoctoral position: The selected candidate will work directly with Virginie van Wassenhove and will contribute to the development, consolidation, and validation of experimental protocols dedicated to understanding how the human brain represents time. The work will take place at NeuroSpin. The selected postdoctoral fellow will actively coordinate with members of the SyG team as frequently and as necessary for the advancement of the project. The selected candidate will be responsible for the development and transfer of knowledge within the project. S/he will set up neuroimaging experiments (MEG, EEG, fMRI) and help supervise Master and PhD students. The successful candidate will benefit from, and contribute to, the interdisciplinary collaboration. Involvement in the organizational and managerial aspects are also expected, including the organization of meetings, journal clubs, and contribution to reporting activities. The scientific contribution to the health of the research group will include contributing to weekly meetings and taking part in informal discussions with members of the team and of the consortium.