Company Description

MindMaze is the world’s leading Neurotechnology start-up built on more than a decade of pioneering research at the intersection of virtual reality and neuroscience. Our breakthrough platform combines virtual & augmented reality, neuroscience and artificial intelligence to build intuitive human machine interfaces. Our first products help patients suffering from severe disabilities following a neurological incident.

Join our eclectic mix of scientists, physicists, engineers and clinicians, and grow with MindMaze.

Job Description

MindMaze is seeking for a candidate with a PhD in Neurosciences to jointly apply for a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship (MSCA IF). We invite individuals with experience working on upper-limb control and haptics, who are interested in conducting research into human sensorimotor control and its application to neurorehabilitation after brain injuries (e.g. stroke, spinal cord injury) to apply to this opportunity. To the successful candidate, we provide an in-depth mentoring process, spanning both academia and industry.

The selected researcher will be contacted for MSCA IF development of project proposal. We will support the candidate to prepare and submit the proposal.

JOB POSITION:

If the proposal is accepted and funded by EU, the candidate will join our Neuroscience team, working closely with the Clinical Field Specialists and Engineering teams, as well as clinical & academic partners.

You will mainly focus on:

• • Research, design and develop algorithms and protocols for multimodal motor training and assessment for different neurological populations
  • Implementation of the developed algorithms in the different devices of the MindMotion platform
  • Clinical validation with healthy and neurological populations
  • Patents writings, technical reports and scientific publications

Qualifications

• • Skills that we look out for are among
    • Holding Ph.D. in Neurosciences or similar by September 2019 (MSCA IF requirement)
    • Having less than 3 years of living in Switzerland in the past 5 years (MSCA IF requirement)
    • Experience as human sensorimotor control researcher, with specialization in neurorehabilitation
    • Very good knowledge and interest in programming (e.g., python, Unity)
  • Icing on the cake
    • Demonstrable interest for development focusing on the patient’s care and clinical interest
    • Strong mathematics and data analysis skills
    • Experience in running experimental studies in psychophysics and/or neuroimaging
    • Experience with immersive virtual reality projects and/or robotics
    • Minimum B2 level in English (French is a plus)

Duration: Up to 24 months contract

Application deadline: 1st May 2019

Proposal submission deadline: 11th September 2019

Start date: March 2020 or after

If you are interested in this opportunity, please explain in a motivation letter how you think you can contribute to this topic.

Additional Information

To be successful, you can illustrate the fact that you have the following abilities:

• • Working autonomously: setting tasks and direction under limited supervision
  • Oral and written communication: ability to write clearly and succinctly in a variety of communication settings and styles; ability to get messages across that have the desired effect
  • Self-Development: personally committed to and actively works to continuously improve him/herself; works on compensating for weakness and limits
  • Planning accurately: setting objectives and goals; breaking down work into the process steps; developing schedules and task/people assignments; anticipating and adjusting to problems and roadblocks
  • Service orientation with recognized mentoring skills and an ability to adapt communication style to a wide variety of audiences
  • Ability to build constructive work relationships and at ease with interacting with colleagues at all hierarchical levels
  • Ability to demonstrate initiative and to solve problems in a fast-paced, ever-changing business environment. Displaying a high level of critical thinking in bringing successful resolution to high impact, complex, and/or cross-functional problems
  • Willingness to travel to clinical partner sites, as needed

Please click here to apply.