1 fully funded PhD position is available in the group of Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience of Ruben Moreno-Bote in the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University Pompeu Fabra.

We are looking for excellent candidates with Physics, Mathematics or Machine Learning background interested in developing theory for the brain and mind. Knowledge of Computational Neuroscience or Neuroscience would be ideal, but it is not necessary.

The candidate will develop state of the art theory and models to understand neuronal dynamics and coding and will have access to multielectrode recording neural data.

She/he could also be involved in the design of monkey and human behavioral experiments and the development of models of visual perception, decision making and working memory. The candidate will benefit from the stimulating environment of Barcelona area in Theoretical and Systems Neuroscience and will have the opportunity of enjoying a lively city. Our lab (https://www.upf.edu/web/ruben-moreno-bote) forms part of a larger network of neuroscience labs in Barcelona.

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2 PHD POSITIONS IN COMPUTATIONAL BRAIN AND CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT AND REMODELLING

PhD project 1:  Development of a multi-scale model of the cardiovascular system of a foetus with aortic coarctation

The aim of this project is the development of a multi-scale model of the cardiovascular system of a fetus with aortic coarctation (and related defects such as ventricular or atrial septal defects), including also the implementation of a tissue growth model to be able to assess the cardiac growth and remodelling during development. It will consist on a 0D model of the circulation, including all the relevant vessels and vascular beds, potentially coupled to a simple 3D model of the fetal heart. Then, a simplified mathematical model of cardiac growth and remodelling will be incorporated in order to study the effects of hemodynamic and mechanical alterations under aortic coarctation into cardiac development. 

PhD project 2:   The Heart-Brain axis, or There and Back again: the journey towards brain development traverses vascular territories

The aim of this project is to create a computational modelling platform, linking heart and brain systems, to test the influence of mechanical forces originating from vascular anatomy, haemodynamics and metabolic characteristics on brain development in normal and abnormal conditions. This research will open up opportunities for understanding systems-based mechanisms of other conditions affecting heart and brain such as congenital heart disease, schizophrenia, autism, neurodegenerative diseases or neurocardiology applications. 

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Applications are invited for a full-time Early Stage Researcher/PhD student position in the Speech Acquisition and Perception Group (SAP), led by Núria Sebastián Gallés, at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), https://www.upf.edu/web/sap. The position is part of The Multilingual Mind (MultiMind) project, https://www.multilingualmind.eu/wp4-project-descriptions. MultMind is an international, multidisciplinary and multisectorial training network on multilingualism. Multimind is funded by the European Union's Horizon2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No 765556. https://www.multilingualmind.eu/ Information about the application process is here: https://www.multilingualmind.eu/copy-of-15-early-stage-researchers-

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PhD POSITIONS EARLY STAGE

RESEARCHER (ESR)

Applications are invited for a full-time Early Stage Researcher/PhD student position in the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group (SPB), led by Prof. Albert Costa , at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), http://www.spb.upf.edu.

The position is part of The Multilingual Mind (MultiMind) project. MultiMind is an international, multidisciplinary and multisectorial training network on multilingualism. MultiMind is funded by the European Union's Horizon2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska Curie grant agreement No 765556. https://www.multilingualmind.eu/

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PhD POSITION

DORCAS MUTHONI PhD FELLOWSHIP. CALL 2018

The new Dorcas Muthoni PhD Fellowship is a tribute to our Doctor Honoris Causa Dorcas Muthoni.

This new scholarship is aligned with our university institutional commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), in order to contribute to transform our world.

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PhD POSITION

COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, RUBEN MORENO-BOTE LAB 

1 fully funded PhD position is available in the group of Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience in the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University Pompeu Fabra

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PhD POSITION

ANNOTATION TOOLS AND PAYFULS APPLICATIONS TO ENRICH MUSICAL HERITAGE

PhD POSITION

IN THE AREA OF NETWORKING AND COMMUNICATIONS

PhD POSITION

IN THE AREA OF AUDIOVISUAL TECHNOLOGIES

PhD POSITION

IN THE AREA COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOMEDICAL SYSTEMS

In this project we will develop a software platform for facilitating treatment planning in electroporation based therapies. In particular, the platform will be aimed at irreversible electroporation treatments for liver tumors.

PhD POSITION

IMAGE PROCESSING METHODS FOR CINEMA POSTPRODUCTION

PhD POSITION

IN BIO-SIGNAL PROCESSING,MACHINE LEARNING AND EMBODIED INTERACTION IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER

The  Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) invites applications for a part-time lecturers in several courses in the Information and Communication Technologies degrees. 

Application deadline: 5th of June 2017

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The  Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) invites applications for a senior faculty position in Computer Science. 

We are looking for a talented full-stack developer to join Universitat Pompeu Fabra in a research project based on deep learning and edge computing and funded by the european commission.

The candidate will me mainly in charge of the integration and the development of the web application frontend of the main platform. The system to build its composed by a set of different components providing the functionalities to be enabled to the user through the application frontend, which will be web-based. The candidate will collaborate with other people both working for UPF and/or other international organizations.

In particular, the candidate will lead the integration efforts of the project, being in charge of assisting other partners to adapt their components to the designed architecture as well as being the main responsible of developing the user interface of the platform, web-based.

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Applications are invited for a part-time Research Technician in the Computational Neuroscience Group (CNS), Language and Comparative Cognition (LCC) Group and the Speech Acquisition and Perception Group (SAP) at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), in the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra https://www.upf.edu/web/cbc/

Job Description

• Recruiting for studies - families (infant studies) and adult participants
• Manage of human experiments – prepare stimuli, questionnaires, scripts, check equipment, translation of experimental material, reception of families/participants, run experiments
• Management of animal studies
• Update and management of experimental data and preliminary analysis
• Testing
• Coding/double coding of the data
• Support in the management of computational cluster
• Candidate minimum requirements:
• Proficient knowledge of English. Fluent in Spanish and Catalan, a plus.
• Experience as a Research technician in R&D (two years).
• Desired capacity to demonstrate:
• Experience as a Research Technician in Neuroscience.
• Proven ability to prioritize a varied workload and to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Proactive, flexible and problem solving attitude.
• Team player and ability to work independently.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, including written communication.

Conditions: Start date 1 July 2019. Duration 6 months. The position may be renewed.

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RESEARCH ASSISTANT

Speech Aquisition and Perception Group and Speech Production and Bilingualism Group (CBC UPF)

Applications are invited for a part-time Research Assistant in the Speech Acquistion and Perception Group (SAP) and the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group (SPB), at the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Job Description

• Research Support tasks related to infant studies:
• Recruiting families to participate
• Update of the bablylab data base
• Feedback to parents – giving them group results once the study their infant participated in finishes
• Testing
• Coding/double coding of the data
• Research support tasks related to infant and/or adult studies
• Manage experiments – prepare stimuli, questionnaires, scripts, check equipment, translation of experimental material, reception of families in the baby lab, run experiments
• Data Organization and preliminary analysis
• Candidate minimum requirements:
• Proficient knowledge of English. Fluent in Spanish and Catalan, a plus.
• Experience a s a Research assistant in R&D (two years).
• Desired capacity to demonstrate:
• Experience as a Research Assistant in Neuroscience.
• Proven ability to prioritize a varied workload and to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail
• Proactive, flexible and problem solving attitude
• Team player and ability to work independently
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills, including written communication

Conditions: Start date 1 July 2019. Duration 6 months. The position may be renewed.

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The "Multisensory Research Group" Research Group (MRG) of the Center for Brain and Cognition of the Pompeu Fabra University requires a place for part-time collaboration scholarships.

We are looking for a person to provide research support for the study of music and concentration. In this study we are going to test the ability of music generated by the mobile phone application to increase performance in sustained attention task. 
Task for the research assistant will consist of helping in software development and building simple setups for experiments, database maintenance, update and recruitment of experimental subjects, group web maintenance and update, assistance in collecting and analyzing of experimental data, support in administrative and organizational tasks. 
Requirements:
- Programming skills (Matlab)
- Knowledge of English
- Organization, responsibility and neatness
It will be valued:
- UPF students of the latest undergraduate or master's degree courses (Higher
Polytechnic School, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences ...)
- Knowledge in signal processing
Conditions:
- Dedication: 25 hours / week.
- Schedule: to be agreed.
- 6 month contract (renewable).
- Salary: 875 per month.
- Incorporation: January
Selection process:
Those interested should send a short presentation letter and CV to the following email address: [email protected], indicating the reference "Collaboration scholarship 2019". After reviewing the CVs, in a second phase, some of the candidates will pass to the personal interview phase.

PART-TIME RESEARCH ASSISTANTS SPEECH ACQUISITION AND PERCEPTION GROUP AND SPEECH PRODUCTION BILINGUALISM GROUP (CBC-UPF)

Applications are invited for part-time Research Assistants in the Speech Acquisition and Perception group (SAP), https://www.upf.edu/web/sap, and the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group, https://www.upf.edu/web/spb, at Pompeu Fabra University.These positions are supported in part by the MSCA ITN project MULTIMIND "Understanding and predicting developmental language abilities and disorders in multilingual Europe" (ref. 765556) financed by the EU Horizon 2020.

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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Applications are invited for part-time Research Technician in the Computational Neuroscience Group (CNS), at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona), https://www.upf.edu/web/cns/ This position is supported in part by the Spanish national project Complexity of Brain States (ref. PSI2016-75688-P) financed by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Technical support and data management for the group’s computational cluster and workstations. Prepare scripts, check equipment, data organization, database management and preliminary data analysis.

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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Applications are invited for a part time research assistant in the Speech Production and Bilingualism Group (SPB), at the Center for Brain and Cognition in Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The position is covered by the project entitled “Reducing biases through foreign language use” (ref. PSI2017-84539-P) financed by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Job Description

• Research support tasks related to adult studies.

• Recruiting subjects to participate in the project research studies.

• Update of the adult participant database.

• Prepare experiments and translation control.

• Data organization and preliminary analysis.

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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Applications are invited for a part time research assistant in the Reasoning and Infant Cognition Group (RICO) and in the Multisensory Research Group (MRG) at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). The position is covered by the projects entitled: “Natural Logical Reasoning: Mechanisms, Interactions and Errors” (ref. PSI2016-75910-P) and “Predicting Multisensory Interactions from Pre-Stimulus Activity” (ref. PSI2016-75558-P) financed by the Spanish Research Agency and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

Job description

• Manage the recruitment at schools and other educational centers to participate in the studies

•Prepare collaborations contract and other documentation needed to set up collaborations with other institutions

• Maintain accurate records of interviews, safeguarding the confidentiality of subjects, as necessary

• Provide ready access to all experimental data for the faculty researcher and/or supervisor

• Manage the equipment and supplies necessary for the projects

• Manage project meetings and follow-up decisions in project meetings

• Summarize project results

Application  deadline: 17/12/2018

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The Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona invites applications to support UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti) innovation and development tasks within the European HDR4EU project, focused on creating a low-end HDR interactive visualisation tool on the web combining, in real time, SDR video streaming images with HDR synthetic images locally rendered able to support engaging collaborative immersive experiences, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment.

UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti), a research group within ETIC (https://www.upf.edu/web/etic) is looking for a final year student or a recent graduate, preferably in Computer Science, to support UPF-GTI innovation and development tasks within the European HDR4EU project, focused on creating a low-end HDR interactive visualisation tool on the web combining, in real time, SDR video streaming images with HDR synthetic images locally rendered able to support engaging collaborative immersive experiences, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment, integrating real-time solutions for photorealistic image synthesis, illumination estimation, chroma keying and tone mapping, and taking into account the web programming specificities. The candidate should have a strong background in 3D Computer Graphics, and specific experience in WebGL and physically based rendering is required. It will be advantageous to have previous experience in collaborating in innovation and European projects. UPF-GTI is looking for candidates that can join the project immediately and become part of it, contributing with productive results in the very short term. The job could be combined with pursuing a final degree project. The working language will be English.

Application  deadline: 18/12/2018

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The Department of Information and Communications Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona invites applications to support UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti)) innovation and development tasks within the European SAUCE project, focused on character animation and, specifically, motion stylization, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment, including annotation tools and collaborative editing.

UPF-GTI (https://www.upf.edu/web/gti), a research group within ETIC (https://www.upf.edu/web/etic) is looking for a final year student or a recent graduate, preferably in Computer Science, to support UPF-GTI innovation and development tasks within the European SAUCE project, focused on character animation and, specifically, motion stylization, enlarging and enriching the WebGLStudio (https://webglstudio.org/) editor and development environment, including annotation tools and collaborative editing. The candidate should have a strong background in 3D Computer Graphics, and specific experience in WebGL and character animation is required. It will be advantageous to have previous experience in collaborating in innovation and European projects. UPF-GTI is looking for candidates that can join the project immediately and become part of it, contributing with productive results in the very short term. The job could be combined with pursuing a final degree project. The working language will be English.

Application  deadline: 18/12/2018

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FRONT-END WEB DEVELOPER POSITION OPEN

The MTG is looking to hire a web developer to start as soon as possible.

This position will involve working at MTG-UPF in Barcelona to design and develop user interfaces, integrate them to the existing back-ends and provide a lead on front-end solutions for the whole team. The candidate will be specially involved in two projects, Freesound and Music-Critic.

Application deadline: 13/03/2018

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NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING RESEARCHER

We are looking for a NLP researcher to carry out research and implementation of semi-supervised or unsupervised techniques for the adaptation of linguistic processors and NLP resources to different applications, domains, and languages

Application deadline: 31/01/2018

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DEVELOPER POSITION

The technitian will be involved in the improvement of the web technologies for the songs recommendation and the testing of the managment of community and users to small and medium scale in the frame of the project CASAS: Community-Assisted Singing Analysis and Synthesis.

Application deadline: 20/01/2018

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This position will involve working at MTG-UPF in Barcelona to develop signal processing and machine learning algorithms for automatic quality assessment and semantic annotation of music audio in the context of digital music distribution systems in collaboration with La Cupula Music.

Application deadline: 31/01/2018

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Main work is aimed at improving the actual implementation and results by:

1. Implementing a better version of our three-way handshake protocol on top of a real world application (such as Dropbox) to collect data from real users;

2. Test the new dataset in the NIST Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators to check its quality;

3. Reproduce some well-known cryptographic attacks[1] against our latency based random number generator and compare its behaviour to other PRNGs.

Application deadline: 12/11/2017

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The research group GPI  (UPF) is seeking a part-time research assistant who will collaborate in a national project (TIN2015-70410-C2-1-R (MINECO/FEDER, UE) where we study computational models and techniques for the automatic analysis and processing of video sequences. We are interested in different research problems such as depth estimation from monocular video, dynamic object segmentation, video inpainting and optical flow estimation.

Application deadline: 30/11/2017

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The research group SPECS is currently looking for:

1) a research assistant or engineer to contribute to the project from a technical point of view. The aim is to build a validation platform consisting in an arena where multiple physical mobile robots interact together.

2) one PhD candidate position with strong interest in multi-agent systems, robotics or complex systems Good programming skills are required, preferably in Python, C++. 

Application deadline: 01/12/2017

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The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DICT) at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, invites applications for a quantum field theorist for communication engineering to give support in the preparation of a report on the quantum reinterpretation of some quantities involved in information transmission.

Application deadline: 30/09/2017

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The Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience Group (http://gustavodecolab.com/) of the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra offers a position in Linux system administration for its high‐performance computer cluster.

Application deadline: 30/09/2017

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Applications are invited for a part-time research assistant position in the MULTISENSORY RESEARCH GROUP, led by Salvador Soto-Faraco.

Application deadline 20/01/2017 

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Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral research position in the Emerging Human Brain Cluster (Clúster Emergent del Cervell Humà-CECH). The successful candidate would be integrated in the Multisensory Research Group (MRG), lead by Prof. Salvador Soto, of the Center for Brain and Cognition (CBC)

The Emerging Human Brain Cluster is part of the call for proposals for the allocation of co-financing from the European Regional development Fund (ERDF) to groups in emerging technologies for the development of valorization projects and research transfer projects.

We seek candidates working in Cognitive Neuroscience, preferably Cognitive Neuroscience of human perception and attention, with strong programming skills (advanced scientific programming in Matlab) and proven experience in EEG design, experimentation and analysis (time-frequency, real-time analysis, location of sources). The successful candidate will develop the research program entitled “Mechanisms, modulation and therapy of chronic pain” of the project.

Application deadline: 17/12/2018

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COMPUTATIONAL NEUROSCIENCE, RUBEN MORENO BOTE LAB

We are looking for excellent candidates with Physics, Mathematics or Machine Learning background, ideally with knowledge of Neuroscience or Computational Neuroscience, and interested in theory and applications. We will also consider candidates with Psychology background with strong mathematical skills and interested in modeling. The candidate will develop state of the art mathematical techniques and models to understand neuronal dynamics and coding and will have access to multielectrode recording neural data. He/she could also be involved in the design of monkey and human behavioral experiments and the development of models of visual perception, decision making and working memory. The candidate will benefit from the stimulating environment of Barcelona area in Theoretical and Systems Neuroscience and will have the opportunity of enjoying a lively city. Our lab (https://www.upf.edu/web/ruben-moreno-bote) forms part of a larger network of neuroscience labs in Barcelona (http://www.barcelonaneuroscience.com).

Application deadline: until the position is filled

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN FUNCTIONAL NEAR-INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY (fNIRS) and EEG FOR NEURO-COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT IN INFANTS 

Postdoctoral position to work in a multi-disciplinary project to study neuro-cognitive development in infants using functional near-infrared & diffusion correlation (fNIRS & fDCS) spectroscopies coupled with EEG recording. The candidate will have the opportunity to work in collaboration with the Medical Optics research group led by Prof. Turgut Durduran at ICFO (Barcelona).

Application deadline: 30/07/2018

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW OR SENIOR ENGINEER IN BIOMEDICAL ELECTRONICS

In the context of two research projects funded by the European Commission (an ERC Consolidator Grant and a Research and Innovation Action), the Biomedical Electronics Research Group (BERG) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona is seeking candidates to carry out research on the development of wearable electronics for neuroprosthetic systems based on injectable implants.

Application deadline: 01/07/2018

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION 

IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Full-time post-doctoral research position in the Speech Acquisition and Perception Group (SAP), led by Núria Sebastián Gallés, at the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). The position is covered by a European Research Council Advanced Grant on Mechanisms of cognitive control and language learning (project number 323961).

Application deadline: 12/04/2018

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP

IN SOUND TECHNOLOGY

The postdoctoral fellow will carry out part-time (50%) project coordination duties (co-supervision of PhD students and assistance to PI for EU project coordination) and part-time (50%) research in their area of interest related to the project.The fellowship will not involve any teaching duties.

Interested candidates should have a PhD in areas related to the TROMPA project, strong publication record and community involvement.

Application deadline: 15/04/2018

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION 

IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Postdoctoral research positions in the Multisensory Research Grup (MRG)  at the Pompeu Fabra University. This position is covered by the grant Predicting Multisensory Interactions from Pre- Stimulus Activity funded by AEI and FEDER.

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POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS PROGRAMME, JUNIOR LEADER "LA CAIXA" AT ETIC-UPF

Postdoctoral fellowships at Universities and Research Centres of Spain are offered through the Junior Leader Programme from “la Caixa”, which is aimed at hiring excellent researchers—of any nationality—who wish to continue their research career in the Spanish territory on any discipline. Sponsored by Obra Social ”la Caixa”, the objectives of this programme are to  foster high-quality, innovative research in Spain and to support the best scientific talents by providing them with an attractive, competitive environment in which to conduct excellent research.

The Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at UPF, accredited by the MINECO with the Maria de Maetzu for its research excellence, will be happy to host postdoctoral researchers from this program. You can check about DTIC research programs and our research groups at our website.

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE

Postdoctoral research positions in the Multisensory Research Grup (MRG)  at the Pompeu Fabra University. This position is covered by the grant Predicting Multisensory Interactions from Pre- Stimulus Activity funded by AEI and FEDER

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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

IN INFORMATION AND THEORY AND CODING

Postdoctoral research positions in the broad areas of information theory and coding are available within the Information Theory and Coding group of the Department of Information and Communication Technologies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona.

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

IN MATHEMATICS FOR CINEMA APPLICATION

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION

IN VISION NEUROSCIENCE FOR CINEMA APPLICATION