Postdoc position to model the sensorimotor system

EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, is one of the most dynamic university campuses in Europe and ranks among the top 20 universities worldwide. The EPFL employs more than 6,000 people supporting the three main missions of the institutions: education, research and innovation. The EPFL campus offers an exceptional working environment at the heart of a community of more than 16,000 people, including over 12,000 students and 4,000 researchers from more than 120 different countries.

Main duties and responsibilities include :

The Alexander Mathis Group of Computational Neuroscience & AI (UPAMATHIS,

https://mathisgroup.org

) at EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) has one open postdoc position in to model the sensorimotor system funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation

(SNSF). The goal is to build deep learning models of the sensorimotor system with a particular focus on proprioception based on known anatomical, pharmacological, lesion, behavioral and physiological data. We will then test predictions with our experimental collaborators.

EPFL

is one of the leading Institutes of Technology in Europe and offers extremely competitive salaries and research infrastructure.

Related work:
DMAP: a Distributed Morphological Attention Policy for Learning to Locomote with a Changing Body
Alberto Silvio Chiappa, Alessandro Marin Vargas, Alexander Mathis. NeurIPS (in press), 2022.
Contrasting action and posture coding with hierarchical deep neural network models of proprioception
Kai J. Sandbrink*, Pranav Mamidanna*, Claudio Michaelis, Matthias Bethge, Mackenzie Weygandt Mathis**, Alexander Mathis**, BioRxiv, 2022.

Your profile :
Requirements:

Candidates should have a Ph.D. and a strong publication record in computational neuroscience or related fields. An ideal candidate would have prior experience in:

• Reinforcement learning
• Machine learning
• Modeling neural data
• Biomechanics
• Fluency in oral and written English is required.

Start date :
Deadline and starting date:

The ideal starting date is spring 2023.

Term of employment :
Fixed-term (CDD)

Duration :
1 year, renewable

Remark :
Only candidates who applied through EPFL website or our partner Jobup’s website will be considered. Files sent by agencies without a mandate will not be taken into account.

Reference :
Job Nb 2669

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