Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Pre-doctoral position at the BCBL- Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language (San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain) www.bcbl.eu (Center of excellence Severo Ochoa)


Applications are invited for a 4-year full-time PhD Studentship in cognitive neuroscience at the Basque Center on Brain Cognition and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian (Spain).

Applicants should have an honours and a Masters degree in Psychology, Neuroscience, Computer Science or another other relevant area and have a strong interest in consciousness and cognitive science coupled with strong computational skills (preferably Python) and experience with state-of-the art neuroscience techniques, in particular fMRI. The student will receive a stipend of 16.000 € during the first 2 years and 18.000 € during the last 2 years. The BCBL research facilities include a 3T MRI, a whole-head MEG system, four ERP labs, a NIRS lab, a baby lab, and several well-equipped behavioral labs including eye trackers and a computing cluster. There are also excellent technical support and research staff. Details of BCBL faculty research interests and research facilities can be found at http://www.bcbl.eu/groups.
For further information about the position please contact David Soto, d.soto@bcbl.eu.

Selection of candidates and interviews will be ongoing until the 31st of June. Please submit your application as soon as possible.

To submit your application please follow this link: http://www.bcbl.eu/calls, applying for “Pre-doc fMRI 2017 Consciousness” and upload:
1. Your curriculum vitae.
2. A covering letter outlining your research interests (4000 characters maximun)
3. The names of two referees who would be willing to write letters of recommendation

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