[alife] PostDoc and Graduate Student Positions at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies

[Titus Brown]

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2 PhD and 1 Postdoc Position Available
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The newly founded Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) is
looking for 1 Postdoc and 2 PhD students in the area of theoretical
neuroscience (broadly construed).

The positions are in the group of Jochen Triesch. The group's research
areas include:

 Neural Computation,
 Vision (Computer, Robot, and Human Vision),
 Computational and Robotic Models of Cognitive Development.

There will be ample opportunity to interact with other researchers at
FIAS, the close-by Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, and the
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt. The official language at
the institute is English.

The successful applicant for the PostDoc Position will join FIAS as a
"junior fellow". The position is initially for one year, renewable for
up to 3 years. Candidates should have a recent PhD in a quantitative
discipline (physics, mathematics, computer science, electrical
engineering or related fields) and a keen interest in several of the
lab's research areas. A tax-free scholarship of 30,000 Euro per year
(equivalent to about 50k US$ before tax) will be offered.

Successful applicants for the Graduate Student Positions will join the
three year PhD program at the new Frankfurt International Graduate
School for Sciences (FIGSS). Candidates should have a Masters degree
in a quantitative discipline (see above) and a keen interest in
several of the lab's research areas. Students will receive a tax-free
stipend of 12,000 Euro per year.

Applicants should submit:

- resume (including date of birth, grades, awards, publications),
- statement of research interests (up to 2 pages),
- names and email addresses of 3 references
- links to their thesis and/or publications

Positions will remain open until filled. Full consideration will be given
to all applications arriving by February 15, 2005. Please send applications
directly to my San Diego address:

 Jochen Triesch
 Dept. of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA

Applications can also be submitted by email to triesch at ucsd.edu. Make
sure that all attached files use the following filename convention:
 Firstname.Lastname.DocDescription.DocType
Do not send .doc or .rtf documents. Instead, use .pdf or plain text formats.


Important Links:

Details on the positions:
 http://cloudbreak.ucsd.edu/~triesch/positions.html

Lab home page:
 http://csclab.ucsd.edu

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS):
 http://www.fias.uni-frankfurt.de/

Frankfurt International Graduate School for Science (FIGSS):
 http://www.fias.uni-frankfurt.de/figss/

Max Planck Institute for Brain Research:
 http://www.mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de

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The Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies is a newly founded
institution dedicated to basic theoretical research in various areas
of science. The Institute will serve as a superstructure for basic
research, bringing together theorists from the disciplines of biology,
chemistry, neuroscience, physics, and computer science in a common
organizational and intellectual framework. It is an ambitious
independent scientific institution while at the same time bundling
research activities at the University of Frankfurt and neighboring
research centers. Scientists from FIAS and from Goethe University join
forces to educate graduate students in the Frankfurt International
Graduate School for Science.


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Jochen Triesch, triesch at ucsd.edu
http://cloudbreak.ucsd.edu/~triesch

Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies
Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
Robert Mayer Str. 10, 60054 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
and
Dept. of Cognitive Science, UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA
Tel: +1 (858) 822-3317, Fax: +1 (858) 534-1128




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