[Neuroinfo] Scientific programmer/software engineer in neuroinformatics

[Andrew Davison]

Scientific programmer/software engineer in neuroinformatics


A scientific programmer/software engineer position is available in the Neuroinformatics group of the UNIC laboratory, located in Gif-sur-Yvette, France, to work on the development of a neurophysiology data analysis toolbox for the Human Brain Project Neuroinformatics Platform.

The position is available immediately, and is for up to two years, ending 31st March 2016. Salary depends on experience, and will be on the standard French research scale.


Qualifications:

Applicants should have an undergraduate or Masters' degree in computer science, physics, neuroscience, or a related discipline. Excellent skills in programming (preferably Python) are essential. Candidates with expertise in neuroscience, signal processing, open-source software development and/or neuroinformatics will be preferred. Knowledge of French would be helpful but is not required, as English is the working language of the project.

The position could also be filled at the postdoc level for applicants with a PhD. In this case the successful candidate would be expected to develop their own research program complementary to, and alongside, the software development work.


How to apply:

Send your CV, a letter of motivation and contact information for two references to Dr Andrew Davison (andrew.davison at unic.cnrs-gif.fr). Informal inquiries are also welcome.


Further details:

The Human Brain Project (HBP; https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/) is an EU Flagship initiative in which over 80 partners will work together to build a completely new information computing technology infrastructure for neuroscience and for brain-related research in medicine and computing, catalysing a global collaborative effort to understand the human brain and its diseases and ultimately to emulate its computational capabilities.

The Neuroinformatics sub-project of the HBP will design, implement and operate a Neuroinformatics Platform which will make it easier for neuroscientists to access, organize and analyse the massive volumes of heterogeneous data, knowledge and tools produced by the international neuroscience community. The successful candidate will contribute to the development of an open-source Python toolbox for analysis of data on brain function, focusing initially on data from electrophysiology, and with an emphasis on comparing simulation results with experimental data.

UNIC (Unité de Neurosciences, Information et Complexité; http://www.unic.cnrs-gif.fr/) is a research unit of the CNRS, located on a parkland campus in Gif-sur-Yvette, about 40 minutes from central Paris. UNIC consists of seven research groups, with a shared focus on complexity in the dynamics of neocortical networks during sensory processing and perception, and using a range of experimental, theoretical and informatics approaches.