FYI
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:27:38 +0200 From: Jorge Jovicich jorge.jovicich@unitn.it To: Bruce Fischl fischl@nmr.mgh.harvard.edu Subject: announcement for MGH email list
Ciao Bruce, would you mind forwarding for me the postdoc position announcement below? Thanks, Jorge -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
POST-DOCTORAL POSITION IN USING BRAIN DATA TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF EMOTIONALLY PLAUSIBLE VIRTUAL AGENTS AT CIMEC/CLIC, UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
A postdoctoral position will soon become available at the CLIC laboratory of the Center for Mind / Brain Sciences, University of Trento (http://clic.cimec.unitn.it/) starting as soon as possible from June 2013.
The successful candidate will join a team of computational linguists and computational neuroscientists whose research is focused on using machine learning methods to analyze recordings of neural activity (EEG, MEG and fMRI) to gain insights about conceptual knowledge and other aspects of the cognitive models of agents involved in language use and interaction. This particular position will be in the PRESTO project, a collaboration between CIMEC, Delta Informatica, the University's Computer Science Department, and Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). The objective of the project is the development of training environments based on immersion in virtual reality situations in which the trainee interacts with artificial agents (avatars). The role of the postdoc in the project will be to run experiments testing the emotional plausibility of the artificial agents, and studying the interaction between emotions and decision making in the trainees.
The ideal candidate for the position is a cognitive neuroscientist with a strong research curriculum in the use of fMRI and/or EEG to study emotions and interaction. Familiarity with machine learning methods to analyze such data (eg MVPA) a plus.
The fellowship has a duration of 1 year with the possibility of renewal for a second year if the results of the first year are satisfactory.
The Language Interaction and Computation Lab (CLIC) is a unit of the University of Trento's Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMEC) (www.cimec.unitn.it): an interdisciplinary Centre for the research in brain and cognition including neuroscientists, psychologists, (computational) linguists, computational neuroscientists, and physicists. CLIC consists of researchers from the Departments of Computer Science and Cognitive Science carrying out research on a range of topics, including concept acquisition and information extraction from very large multi-modal corpora, combining brain data and data from corpora to study cognition, and theoretical linguistics.
The official call for the position can be found at: http://www.unitn.it/en/cimec/11882/study-and-job-opportunities
Deadline for the application is April 30th.
For additional information please contact Massimo Poesio (massimo.poesio at unitn.it), attaching your CV.