-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Postdoc position available - computational modeling of fMRI/MEG data, and real-time fMRI neurofeedback of language Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2020 10:54:03 +0000 From: Narly Golestani Narly.Golestani@unige.ch To: Narly Golestani Narly.Golestani@unige.ch

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Dear Colleagues,

I would be grateful if you could please circulate the below job advertisement to anyone who may be interested.

Many thanks in advance and best wishes,

Narly.

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With the launch of a new ‘NCCR Evolving Language’ (http://www.snf.ch/SiteCollectionDocuments/nfs/Faktenblatt_NCCR_evolvinglangu...), which involves nearly 40 different research groups from a large variety of disciplines across Switzerland, we seek to fill a *Postdoc position for a four-year project* starting in September 2020, or at the selected candidate’s earliest convenience.

Our goal is to make progress in understanding *the importance of prosody in language processing*. To this end, we plan to carry out a set of studies involving both *computational modeling of fMRI *and/or of*MEG data *and*real-time fMRI neurofeedback *to understand the *mechanisms whereby prosody and rhythm support linguistic processing per se*. The computational modeling work will be an extension of our recent work on the neural encoding of acoustic information in speech sounds (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31285622). The research will be done in the group of Narly *Golestani*in Geneva (www.brainandlanguagelab.org http://www.brainandlanguagelab.org), in collaboration with researchers in Switzerland and abroad (Elia *Formisano*in Maastricht, and Frank *Scharnowski*in Vienna).

Applicants should hold a degree in *Cognitive Neuroscience*, *Biomedical Engineering, Computational Neuroscience, or a related field*, and should have solid experience in *human brain imaging *and*programming*, and ideally also *in computational modelling (i.e. encoding / decoding) of fMRI *and/or of*MEG data, real-time fMRI based neurofeedback, machine learning and statistics*. Knowledge of French would be an asset.

The NCCR places great emphasis on gender diversity and we particularly encourage women to apply.

To apply, please send a cover letter, CV, names and contact information of 2-3 references as well as any other relevant documents to Narly.Golestani@unige.ch mailto:Narly.Golestani@unige.ch. Feel free to contact me should you have any questions.

*Deadline for application: June 30^th 2020.*

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*Brain and Language Lab*

**Prof. Narly GOLESTANI* *

Department of Psychology

Campus Biotech

*9 Chemin des Mines, *

*1202 Genève*

*+41 22 379 53 52*

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