PhD Studentship/Postdoctoral Position in Vision Systems Physiology, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Vision Systems Physiology group has funding available for a PhD or a postdoctoral student. Earlier experience about visual system or matlab programming would be helpful. We are part of Brain Research Unit at Low Temperature Laboratory in Helsinki University of Technology. The work would target cortical physiology with brain imaging and aim to understand visual information processing at systems level. Our group works mainly with functional magnetic resonance imaging and has excellent access to research-dedicated 3 T magnet. In addition, whole-head magnetoencephalography is available for temporal resolution when necessary. We have close collaboration with groups in Helsinki University who work on visual psychophysics and computational modeling of vision.

The university is located in Espoo, Otaniemi campus, and forms a calm and research friendly environment with significant amount of foreign students. Finland is known for an excellent infrastructure for families and Helsinki region houses multiple international schools. Helsinki University of Technology, together with Helsinki School of Economics and the University of Art and Design Helsinki will be part of a new foundation-based Aalto University at the end of next year. The new university aims to nourish a student centered culture and high-quality research.

If you are interested, please send CV and a letter of recommendation before 10th December to Simo Vanni, AMI centre, PO Box 3000, 02015-TKK, Espoo, Finland, or by e-mail to vanni [ at ] neuro.hut.fi. Please do not hesitate to ask for more information.

Closing date: 10th December, 2008