The International Brain Laboratory has openings for postdoctoral fellows and scientific staff who will play key roles in a new large-scale international collaboration in brain research.

The IBL combines the efforts of approximately 50 scientists in 22 laboratories toward understanding the brain-wide basis of a complex behavior.

The project will involve recording the activity of millions of neurons in the working brain and building mathematical models of the resulting data. The data sets this project will produce are vast and complex, including physiological recordings, behavioural measurements, and video, all of which must be standardized into common formats, integrated into a single database, and subjected to quality control. Core staff positions will support the both experimental and theoretical work through the entire data life cycle, including acquisition, analysis, modeling and dissemination.

Remuneration will be competitive and commensurate with experience. There is considerable flexibility in base location within the U.S. and Europe.

You can find more specific information about the different job openings below.

IT SUPPORT OFFICER (ISO)

The ISO will work with scientists in our member labs to ensure the smooth running of all software and hardware systems. This will require travel to member labs to solve problems that cannot be solved remotely. The ISO will also be responsible for project-wide IT functions such as system administration, account control and website design.

The ideal candidate would have experience working in scientific research (though not necessarily neuroscience), and would be familiar with electronics, Python, Linux and Windows systems, system administration, and web design. A flexible attitude, the ability to quickly adapt to new situations and learn new systems, and to work independently as part of a geographically distributed team, are essential. As this is a distributed collaboration, the candidate should be prepared to travel to all partner sites, with a home base ideally in New York, but also possibly London or Lisbon.

To apply, please send a cover letter and CV to info+careers[at]internationalbrainlab.org