[Comp-neuro] 3 PostDocs, Switzerland, EPFL

Dear all,

3 Postdoc positions are available
in the Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience
at the EPFL. Duration is typically 2 years, up to 4 years max.
http://lcn1.epfl.ch/

The PostDocs will be hosted in the research group of
Wulfram Gerstner. Typically PostDocs in the Laboratory
of Computational Neuroscience are rather independent,
with their own research project which should
of course have a  relation to the topics studied in the lab.
The lab has been involved in the past in models of STDP,
reward-based plasticity, or coding with spiking neurons, amongst others
Some representative publications are listed below.

PostDocs are expected to have an extremely strong theory background
(theoretical physcis, math, or similar) and, ideally, should have worked
in the field of theoretical or computational neuroscience.

If you are interested, send an application
(CV, motivation letter, publication list, research project,
and three names for  reference) as pdf documents per email to
Chantal.Mellier@epfl.ch
We start to look at applications after Feb 1st 2012, but later applications are possible.
Starting date negotiable.

The laboratory is located at the EPFL in Lausanne, on the shores
of the lake of Geneva in Switzerland. The EPFL
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne is a top ranked
University in Europe.

best regards
Wulfram Gerstner

some represenative publications

Inhibitory Plasticity Balances Excitation and Inhibition in Sensory Pathways and Memory Networks, T. Vogels, H. Sprekeler, F. Zenke, C. Clopath and W. Gerstner, Science 334: 1569-1573, 2011

Connectivity reflects coding: a model of voltage-based STDP with homeostasis, C. Clopath, L. Busing, E. Vasilaki and W. Gerstner, Nature Neuroscience, 13: 344-352, 2010

Generalized Bienenstock-Cooper-Munro rule for spiking neurons that maximizes information transmission , T. Toyoizumi, J.-P. Pfister, K. Aihara, and W. Gerstner , Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, 102:5239-5244 (2005)

Spiking Neuron Models - Single Neurons, Populations, Plasticity, Wulfram Gerstner and Werner Kistler, Cambridge University Press (2002)

Functional Requirements for Reward-Modulated Spike-Timing-Dependent Plasticity, N. Fremaux, H. Sprekeler and W. Gerstner, Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 30, Nr. 40, pp. 13326-13337, 2010.

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