[Neuroinfo] Postdoctoral position data/knowledge management for open neuroscience

[Andrew Davison]

Dear colleagues,

A postdoctoral position in neuroscience data curation is available within the Neuroinformatics research group of the Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience, led by Dr Andrew Davison.

The Human Brain Project is developing an open data repository for neuroscience, following the FAIR principles of Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. The role of our group is to strongly focus on Reusability, by ensuring that all datasets have high quality, in-depth metadata so that they can be used in model building, model validation, and further analysis, and by providing tools to facilitate data re-use.

The position is available immediately, and is funded until 31st March 2020, with future extensions possible. Salary depends on experience, and will be on the standard CNRS research scale.

Application is through the CNRS jobs portal: https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR9197-ANDDAV-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN
Informal inquiries may be addressed to Andrew Davison (andrew.davison at unic.cnrs-gif.fr)


Activities:

The successful candidate will be responsible for developing and improving metadata schemas, protocols, and curation workflows for neural activity data (including patch clamp recordings, fluorescence imaging, multi-electrode array recordings and fMRI), and for coordinating the in-depth curation process. The project will involve intensive collaboration with other researchers, curators and software developers within the research group, within the Human Brain Project, and in the wider neuroscience/neuroinformatics communities.


Qualifications:

Applicants should have a PhD in either neuroscience, computer science, library/information science, or a closely related discipline, or be nearing completion of PhD studies in one of these domains.

Experience with experimental methods in neuroscience, semantic web technologies and/or information management approaches will be of particular benefit. Knowledge of computer programming, in particular using the Python language, would also be an advantage. Knowledge of French would be helpful but is not required, as English is the working language of the project.


Context:

The Human Brain Project (HBP; https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/) is an EU Flagship initiative in which over 100 partner institutions are working 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 Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (http://neuro-psi.cnrs.fr) is a joint research unit of the CNRS and Paris-Sud University, located on a parkland campus in Gif-sur-Yvette, about 40 minutes from central Paris. The Davison group is part of the Department of Integrative and Computational Neuroscience, which consists of six research groups with a shared focus on complexity in the dynamics of neocortical networks during sensory processing and perception, using a range of experimental, theoretical and informatics approaches.