Tenure-track Faculty positions

Lectureship (comparable to US assistant professor) in Computational Neuroscience at the School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh.

The University of Edinburgh has announced a number of prestigious 5-year Chancellor's Fellowships. Subject to satisfactory review after 3 years, the Fellow will move to a permanent academic post. Appointees can concentrate initially on research, acquiring full University Lecturer duties during the Fellowship. These prestigious awards are aimed at early career individuals of the highest potential who have begun to establish a reputation for the top quality research at the forefront of their discipline and who have a commitment to teaching at university level.

One of the priority areas for Chancellor's Fellowships is Computational Cognitive Science which includes Computational Neuroscience. Computational Neuroscience includes analysis and modelling of brain processes at all levels of organization with a particular focus on research which spans across levels. Research areas are broadly defined as the study of the neural foundations of perception, memory, cognition, and action and their underlying developmental processes. Research on these topics is conducted in the Institute for Adaptive and Neural Computation (ANC), which hosts the Doctoral Training Centre in Neuroinformatics and Computational Neuroscience (DTC).

The institute is based in the School of Informatics, one of the world's top research leaders in computer science/informatics. The University of Edinburgh is one of the world's top research universities, in one of the UK's most pleasant cities.

The official advert can be found at: http://www.jobs.ed.ac.uk/vacancies/index.cfm?fuseaction=vacancies.detail&vacancy_ref=3015150

Closing dates are: 16th January, 29th February and 16th April 2012.

Note that Chancellor's Fellowships are available in other areas as well.


Informal inquiries can be directed to Dr Mark van Rossum,
mvanross-@nospam-inf.ed.ac.uk.
Prof Chris Williams can answer informal inquiries at NIPS.