UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
A Research Associate position in computational neural modeling is
immediately available at the University of Pittsburgh. The focus of
research will be on dynamical and integrative behaviors of neural systems,
especially coherent neuronal oscillations. Topics include electrophysiology
of neurons in the thalamus and neocortex; cellular and network basis of slow
sleep rhythms and fast oscillations during arousal; origin of transient
population events with high variabilities; inhibitory synaptic transmission
and modulation; synaptic organization of cooperative neuronal firing
patterns in the hippocampus. Projects are expected to be carried out in
close interactions and collaborations with experimental neurobiologists.
Candidates with training and research experience in neuroscience, the
mathematics of nonlinear dynamical systems, and computer simulations, are
preferred.
The University of Pittsburgh has an active interdisciplinary
program in neuroscience. A new Center for Neural Basis of
Cognition (CNBC) has just been established jointly with
the Carnegie-Mellon University.
Applicants should send promptly a curriculum vitae and a brief description of
fields of interest, and have three letters of recommandation sent to the
following address.
Professor Xiao-Jing Wang
Department of Mathematics and
Center for Neural Basis of Cognition
505 Thackeray Hall
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Phone: 412-624-1759; Fax: 412-624-8397
email: xjwang@math.pitt.edu