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Applications are invited for a part-time Lab Research Technician in the Speech Acquisition and Perception Group (SAP) at the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Research Support tasks related to infant studies:
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Babylab Coordinator - Part Time |
Applications are invited for a part-time Babylab Coordinator in the Speech Acquisition and Perception Group (SAP), at the Center for Brain and Cognition, Universitat Pompeu Fabra. The position is funded in part by the project: SIMBILEX -Consequences of language similarity in the infant bilingual lexicon, ref. PGC2018-101831-B-I00, financed by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). |
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Research Support position - Speech Production and Bilingualism Group |
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 as 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 |
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PART-TIME RESEARCH TECHNICIAN |
Applications are invited for part-time Research Technician in the Language and Comparative Cognition (LCC), at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). This position is supported in part by the Spanish national project ProsCons Prosodic constraints in the discovery of linguistic structure: Exploring domain specificity and experience (ref. PGC2018-096641-B-I00) financed by the Spanish Research Agency (AEI) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Technical support and data management for the group’s workstations. Support for lab equipment. Prepare scripts, check equipment, data organization, database management and preliminary data analysis. Candidate minimum requirements: • Proficient knowledge of English. • Fluent in Spanish and Catalan a plus. • Experience as Research Technician in R&D (2 years minimum experience expected). Desired capacity to demonstrate: • Experience as Research Technician in Neuroscience. • A proven ability to prioritise 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: Starting date: 1st September 2019 Duration of employment: 4 months. The position could be renewable. |
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POSTDOCTORAL POSITION IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE: The Emerging Human Brain Cluster |
Applications are invited for a full-time post-doctoral research position in the The Emerging Human Brain Cluster (Clúster Emergent del Cervell Humà - CECH). The successful candidate would be integrated in the Speech Acquisition and Perception Group (SAP), lead by Prof. Nuria Sebastian, 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 Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, with strong programming skills (advanced scientific programming in Matlab and Python) and experience in EEG - experimentation and analysis (Fourier, wavelet time-frequency analysis for power spectrum, functional and effective connectivity analyses). The successful candidate will develop a vigorous research program that contributes to and complements ongoing research studies. The candidate will have access to state of the art facilities. We offer onsite laboratory facilities (www.upf.edu/web/cbclab) and a highly interdisciplinary and active reserch environment at the Center for Brain and Cognition. The position will be renewable on a yearly basis for up to 3 years. Starting date: September 2019. |
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PhD scholarship in Biomedical Engineering (biomedical electronics) |
You will participate in a number of biomedical engineering projects focused on clinical applications and within the framework of bioelectrical phenomena. More specifically, you will do research on tissue electroporation. You will conceive, design and implement devices and systems that will be used in vitro, in vivo and clinically in close collaboration with life sciences researchers. You will also perform numerical simulations related to the phenomena under study. You will participate in international meetings and you will report your results in scientific journals. |
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TECNIOSpring vacancies for experienced researchers |
BCN-MedTech (UPF) is offering ten positions (eight for incoming modality, one for outgoing and one with both possible modalities) for experienced postdoctoral researchers or researchers with industrial experience conditioned to a TECNIOSpring position. The vacant positions are directly related to our current projects on their tech-transfer stage with the final objective to provide innovative solutions in health. |
| Call for Expressions of Interest: Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Individual Fellowships 2019 |
The BCN MedTech (UPF) is looking for an experienced postdoctoral researcher under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie (MSCA) Individual Fellowships. The different research areas of BCN MedTech are led by a strong core of researchers in active collaboration with industrial and clinical partners, and they include:
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FULL STACK DEVELOPER FOR RESEARCH PROJECT IN DEEP LEARNING |
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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RESEARCH ASSISTANT IN COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
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The Center for Brain and Cognition, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra offers a position as a research assistant in Cognitive Neuroscience. The minimum requierements are: • University degree with proficient knowledge of English • Official certificate for the manipulation of animals in laboratory settings (category C FELASA) • Experience designing experiments and analyzing data with MATLAB We offer onsite laboratory facilities (www.upf.edu/web/cbclab) and a highly interdisciplinary and active research environment at the Center for Brain and Cognition.
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SOFTWARE DEVELOPER |
The Natural Language Processing Group (TALN) of the University Pompeu Fabra invites applications for the full-time position of a software developer. The selected candidate will join an interdisciplinary group of highly qualified researchers and engineers. He/she will be in charge of the development of tools (mainly in Java, but occasionally also in other programming languages such as Python or C++) in the context of various NLP tasks, including multilingual text analysis and generation, automatic summarization, machine translation, etc. Requirements:
Any of the following will be a plus:
Benefits We offer an extendable 1-year contract with flexible hours. Salary will be negotiated based on experience.
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LINUX SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR - Part Time
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The Center for Brain and Cognition, at Universitat Pompeu Fabra offers a position in Linux system administration for its high‐performance computer cluster. Our cluster currently provides service to twenty users and consists of forty servers and approximately eight hundred computational cores. The new administrator will install and maintain software and also monitor and solve problems regarding the cluster and its associated infrastructure. Emphasis will be placed on the automation and documentation of the administrative tasks. Our cluster is used mainly to perform numerical simulations of models neural systems. The programs carrying out those simulations are written in Python or MATLAB. We may eventually require the administrator to work on the optimization of those programs, once the administration tasks are sufficiently automated.
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