Postdoc in Rodent Social Neuroscience

Postdoc in social rodent neuroscience: understanding social and brain dynamics of multiple individuals

Both human and rodents live in complex environments that include the necessity to interact with other conspecifics. To better understand how the brain responds to this level of complexity, neuroscience is moving from analyzing brain and behavioral responses of single individuals to the simultaneous recording of brain, behavior and physiological responses in two or more individuals freely interacting. In this postdoctoral position, you would have the opportunity to work with leaders in the field to pioneer methods and paradigms that unravel how information flows across individual rodent brains to determine adaptive social behavior. This effort will leverage the unique competence and technological might of the Dutch Brain Interface Initiative consortium.

The Dutch Brain Interface Initiative (DBI2; Dutch Brain Interface Initiative (dbi2.nl))

Your Postdoc will be embedded in the DBI2 program, which brings together expertise in neuroscience, neuro-engineering and computation sciences to foster novel approaches to brain-machine interfaces. During your Postdoc you’ll therefore have the opportunity to exchange knowledge and ideas with many other PhD students, postdocs and leaders from all over the Netherlands, with a great diversity of background knowledge.

Work description

Your Role.

During your postdoc you will have the opportunity to:

• Develop paradigms and experimental set-ups that allow for simultaneous behavior and brain recordings of small interacting groups of N≥3 rodents
• Collaborate with the engineering DBI2 cluster to develop or refine tools to add long-term recording in freely moving animals of physiological measures to be paired with brain activity
• Collaborate with the artificial intelligence and computation DBI2 cluster to identify the best algorithms to classify social dynamics
• Establish closed loop systems that allows to identify causes and effects of a particular brain-behavior dynamic
• Advance your analytical skills of functional connectivity and brain-2-brain and brain-2-behavior dynamics
• Publish your findings in open access scientific journals.

You should expect from us

We will:

• Help you acquiring the skills to manage challenging, varied projects with major scientific and societal impact
• Have access to state of the art techologies
• Offer the opportunity to develop a unique profile at the forefront of social neuroscience
• Offer a wide collaborative network within and outside the Netherlands
• Facilitate the interaction with world-wide leaders in the field of neuroscience, bio-engineering and computational neuroscience
• Offer the opportunity, within DIB2, to touch base with a wide network of post-docs working on related topics and with non-academic companies
• Facilitate the interaction with other big consortia within the Netherlands, to for instance deepen the discussion bout ethical consequences of the use of interactive technology
• Offer guidance, support and mentoring from at least two PIs
• Offer guidance and mentorship in the supervision of more junior scientists, in order to help you develop as a successful leader
• Support you during grant applications you may want to consider
• Offer a contract for 3 years for 1.0 fte conform the CAO NU for post-doc.

Postdoc in cellular & circuit neuroscience Kole Lab - NL Institute for Neuroscience - Amsterdam

What you will be doing

We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on an NWO-funded project focusing on cellular and circuit mechanisms of predictive coding in the visual system. Predictive coding theory states that the brain continuously compares visual inputs it receives with an experience-based internal model of the environment, and updates this model based on the differences. The project is part of a collaboration in which a novel behavioral paradigm and advanced two-photon imaging is employed to study neural circuits underlying predictive coding (Seignette et al. eLife 2024). You will be responsible for the ex vivo brain slice physiology to determine the role of synaptic, axonal and myelin mechanisms involved in updating the internal model of the environment. The aim is determining the contribution of two inhibitory cell types in this process, the basket- and the chandelier interneurons and role of the axon initial segment plasticity (see e.g. Jamann et al. Nat Commun 2021; Fréal et al. Sci Adv 2023).

Postdoctoral Researcher Trifecta Food History DhLab Amsterdam

For the Trifecta project DHLab in Amsterdam is opening a vacancy for

Postdoctoral Researcher Trifecta Food History (36-38 hrs)

What you will be doing
The mass scale digitization of sources provides the tantalising possibility of studying complex concepts and entities over long periods of time, across thousands or even millions of sources, and from a myriad of perspectives. However, automated methods for analysing these "big data" are inadequate for complex concepts because they have not confronted the fundamental challenges of identity (i.e. what are they exactly and how are they perceived), change (i.e. how have they evolved over time) and the long tail (i.e. what low-frequent contexts do they connect to). The ERC-funded TRIFECTA project will combine language technology and semantic web research to create a database that can be used to explore the cultural and societal contexts of contentious entities and concepts in the domain of food history.

Tracing Contentious Entities and Concepts in Food History. In this sub-project, you and the Ph.D. candidate will develop technology to identify ingredients and food-related concepts from historical resources, as well as analysing how food habits and discourse around food have changed over time. On the digital methodological strand, this sub-project will study the impact of digital processing tools on the hermeneutical practice of historical research. For more information about the project, see: https://trifecta.dhlab.nl

What we are offering
You will be working in the Digital Humanities Lab, a research group at KNAW Humanities Cluster in Amsterdam. DHLab investigates and develops innovative, data-driven, and computationally strong methods for humanities research. We develop computational methods for connecting collections and resources, computational heuristics and tool criticism, and we aim to bridge qualitative and quantitative methods. The team publishes in diverse outlets such as Computational Humanities Research, Digital Humanities Quarterly, Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, Digital Humanities Benelux, and the Extended Semantic Web Conference.

During the project, you will be working in a multidisciplinary research environment. You will be co-supervising the Ph.D. candidate on the project and have the opportunity to (further) build an international profile in the digital humanities field.

Your workplace
Our offices are located in a historical building in downtown Amsterdam. Researchers work together in projects and a shared office space and can choose to spend part of their time at home. DHLab aims to be an open and inquisitive, safe work environment where your input counts, not your job title. We value open conversations about pros and cons of a particular idea and approach based on content, not status.

For more information
Please contact: Dr. Marieke van Erp, principal investigator & DHLab department head.

Application procedure
Please submit a CV, cover letter that includes a motivation on why you want to work on this project and a 1-page research statement. Include one of your publications that best represents your research.

Medewerker Cashmanagement - Bureau - KNAW

Functieomschrijving

Ben jij een nauwkeurige en communicatief sterke administratief medewerker dan zijn we op zoek naar jou. Heb je ervaring met debiteuren, crediteuren en cash management, kan je goed communiceren op alle niveaus, in een team werken en zelfstandig? Solliciteer dan naar de functie van medewerker cashmanagement bij het Bureau van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW). Het betreft hier een functie voor 60% en dat is 22,8 uur per week. Dit is deels vanuit huis.

Dit ga je doen:

In deze functie werk je drie dagen per week voor de afdeling cashmanagement. De afdeling cash management is onderdeel van de afdeling Concern administratie en in totaal werken we daar met 8 collega’s.

Je bent verantwoordelijk voor:

• Het beheer en onderhoud van de masterdata van Crediteuren en Debiteuren via onze administratieve systemen Topdesk en Oracle
• Analyse en verwerken niet afgeletterde posten
• Ondersteunen bij het verwerken van de bankafschriften
• Ondersteunen bij de voorbereidende werkzaamheden voor het betaalproces
• Ondersteunen bij het opstellen van specificaties, grootboekaansluitingen en rapportages.

Projectmanager Digitale Infrastructuur - HuC DI

Projectmanager Digitale Infrastructuur Humanities Cluster (0.6-1 fte)

Vind jij het leuk om bij te dragen aan projecten bij de afdeling Digitale Infrastructuur van het Humanities Cluster van de KNAW? Kun jij een aantal van onze technische projecten managen? Dan komen we graag in contact met je want het KNAW Humanities Cluster (HuC) is op zoek naar een Projectmanager (0,6 – 1,0 fte).

Wij zoeken een projectmanager die het leuk vindt om zich bezig te houden met een aantal technische projecten. Het betreft bijvoorbeeld interne technische projecten, maar ook projecten in samenwerking met de erfgoedsector, zoals het grote project HisGIS: Historisch Geografisch Informatie-Systeem, waar ook een steeds groeiende groep vrijwilligers moet worden gecoördineerd.

In deze functie

• Ga je uitvoering geven aan een aantal technische projecten, waarin je een coördinerende rol speelt.
• Speel je een centrale rol in het project HisGIS, een belangrijke component is daarin het coördineren van de verschillende taken in het project.
• Speel je een rol in het gebruik, beheer en doorontwikkeling van de systemen, zoals in het HisGIS project.
• Je draagt bij aan het beheersen van de complexiteit bij het converteren van legacy SQL-databasesystemen;
• Je legt de verbinding met het beheerteam, en draagt bij aan goede overdracht van project naar beheer.
• Probeer je het projectmatig werken te verbeteren binnen DI en draag je daaraan bij binnen het HuC.
• Je maakt deel uit van het GEO team, waar het HisGIS project is ondergebracht.

Dit breng je mee

• Aantoonbaar WO-denkniveau
• Aantoonbare ervaring met projectmanagement en coördinatie van werkzaamheden;
• Aantoonbare ervaring met werken in een ICT-team; ervaring met Java is een pré;
• Aantoonbare ervaring met complexe database-migraties;
• Aantoonbare organisatorische en sociale vaardigheden;
• Affiniteit met geesteswetenschappelijk onderzoek;
• Een goede beheersing van de Nederlandse en de Engelse taal.

Arbeidsovereenkomst

De aanstelling is in eerste instantie voor 1 jaar, met perspectief op een vast contract.