Two postdoctoral positions in New York (electrophysiology, optogenetics, beta oscillations)

The Haegens lab is hiring two postdocs in New York!

The Haegens/Brain Rhythms lab is interested in the mechanistic role of brain oscillations, specifically studied in the context of perception & cognition. We use a combination of electrophysiological methods, including EEG/MEG, ECoG, and LFP recordings, as well as computational modelling, to characterize neuronal dynamics on several critical levels.

We are looking for two highly talented and motivated postdoctoral researchers for a NIH funded project entitled “Scaffolding of brain operations: the role of beta oscillations in forming flexible neural ensembles”. The overall aim of this research program is to elucidate how the brain sets up the functional neural architecture involved in working memory and decision making. We will test a novel theoretical framework delineating how the beta rhythm flexibly sets up transient networks, linking neuronal circuits that are relevant to current task demands, thereby providing the scaffolding for information transfer.

In this larger research program, we will use a combination of EEG recordings in healthy human subjects, and intracranial electrophysiology and optogenetic neuromodulation in awake-behaving rodents. Both human subjects and animals will perform a spatial working-memory paradigm, critically allowing vertical integration across recording levels.

We are hiring one postdoc to lead the human EEG project and another to lead the rodent electrophysiology & optogenetics project. The latter will be in collaboration with the lab of Alex Harris.

Start date is flexible, application deadline Oct 7. For more information and link to online application forms, see http://www.haegenslab.com.

Feel free to get in touch if you have any questions.