The Proaction Laboratory (Jorge Almeida's lab; proactionlab.fpce.uc.pt) at the University Coimbra Portugal is looking for Researchers at different levels of their career from newly phd graduates, to assistant, associate or full level researchers to be part of the lab in a joint competitive application to a Portuguese Science Foundation (FCT) independent researcher call in March/April (see previous calls here).
The applicants should have an interest on cognitive neuroscience, vision science and preferably (but not limited to) object recognition, conceptual processing, and action and perception. We are particularly interested in motivated and independent Researchers addressing these topics with strong expertise in behavioral, neuromodulation, fMRI and/or EEG approaches (in particular Multivariate EEG decoding, and EEG/fMRI multimodal approaches), and Computational neuroscience. Good programming skills, great communication and mentoring skills, and a great command of English are a plus.
The applicant and the lab will work on a competitive project to be submitted. Results from the application are expected to be out in October/November 2023. The application deadline is around February/March.
The positions are as independent researchers in the Proaction Lab, are for 6 years, and the salary is the same as the Portuguese payroll for University Professors (net values for junior, assistant, associate positions, for instance are approximately 1500, 1900 and 2100 euros per month in a 14 month salary per year; these are competitive salaries for the cost of living in Portugal and especially in Coimbra).
The Proaction Lab is currently very well funded as we have a set of on-going funded projects including a Starting Grant ERC to Jorge Almeida and several FCT projects. We have access to two 3T MRI scanner, to tDCS and TMS with neuronavigation, to a 256 EEG, a VR set, and eyetracking, and to a behavioral lab. We also have a science communication office dedicated to the lab.
Finally, the University of Coimbra is a 700 year old University and has been selected as a UNESCO world Heritage site. Coimbra is one of the liveliest university cities in the world, and it is a beautiful city with easy access to the beach and mountain.
The deadline for this pre-application is February 15, but you should apply as soon as you can - the sooner the better so that we can prepare the application. If interested send an email to[email protected], with a CV, and motivation/scientific proposal letter. If there is a fit, we will jointly apply to these positions.