Os reenviamos un mensaje sobre una oferta predoctoral en el Vision and Control of Action Group, Universitat de Barcelona (UB).
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Applications are invited for one full-time pre-doctoral position in the Vision and Control of Action Group http://www.ub.edu/viscagroup/ at the University of Barcelona to undertake the PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Joan López-Moliner.
The position:
We seek an excellent and highly motivated candidate with a background in psychophysics, experimental psychology, cognitive neuroscience, or similar. Prior research experience will be a plus especially in areas related to the project (see below). I also highly value programming skills, particularly in R and Python. The project involves working with eye movements, modeling/artificial neural networks, and virtual reality.
The fellowship is linked to an Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities/AEI project led by Joan López-Moliner under the the FPI program.
The positions will be funded for four years. Starting date: Early 2025 (approx.). The salary is dictated by the Ministry (funding agency) and the minumum is 24,600 euros/year (first year); 30,200 (second to fourth year).
Application:
Please, send an expression of interest (or any other enquiries about the position) to j.lopezmoliner@ub.edu.
Include the following: A brief C.V., a cover letter describing your research interests, and the contact of two academic references. If any, please also include a sample of your previous scientific experience (e.g. master’s thesis, and/or other scientific outputs).
Applications will be send through a UB webpage that will be available from the 9th to 27th of september.
The project: «Measuring visual precision in optic flow with eye movements» (PID2023-150081NB-I00 /AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033), led by Prof. Joan López-Moliner:
Optic flow, the dynamic pattern of light projected from the environment to the observer, is pivotal for understanding human interaction with the three-dimensional visual world. When optic flow is projected onto the retinas, it encapsulates motion information about objects and self- motion. This project focuses on how precisely people recover visual information from the optic flow that is useful to control our actions (e.g. navigation, interception). This project aims to address this main objective by using eye movements and modeling including continuous psychophysics methods in lab settings, virtual reality and real-world scenarios.
Joan López-Moliner, Ph.D.
Full Professor (catedràtic) of Visual Perception and Psychophysics
Head of the Vision & Control of Action (VISCA) group
Institute of Neurosciences (UBneuro)
Section of Cognitive Processes
Universitat de Barcelona
Passeig de la Vall d’Hebron, 171 08035 Barcelona
e-mail: J.LopezMoliner@ub.edu
http://www.ub.edu/viscagroup/joan/
phone: +34 93 3125143
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