[Comp-neuro] Australian Research Council Future Fellowship at the MARCS Institute.

Call for Expressions of Interest

ARC Future Fellowships

Brain and Behaviour Research at the MARCS Institute

Australian Research Council Future Fellowships for mid-career researchers

The Australian Research Council (ARC) is currently calling for applicants for the Future Fellowships scheme.  This mid-career research fellowship provides salary and project costs for four-year to successful applicants who have been awarded their PhD between 5 and 15 years (see www.arc.gov.au/ncgp/futurefel/future_default.htm for further information).

The MARCS Institute

At the MARCS Institute, a vibrant interdisciplinary Research Institute of the University of Western Sydney, we will work with mid-career researchers to develop highly competitive Future Fellowship applications to conduct research in our well-equipped research environment in any of our 5 research programs:

 

·       Bioelectronics & Neuroscience: computational and electronic modelling to reverse engineer the brain and biomedical instrumentation design.

·       Human Machine Interaction: Believability of virtual agents' behaviour in cyber-physical worlds; cyber-physical interfaces, natural interaction between virtual and physical worlds.

·       Multisensory Processing: Signal – brain -, and behavioural level investigations of the multisensory processing that underpins our sense of being in a stable, interpretable world.

·       Music Cognition & Action: Investigation of the temporal dynamics in individual and group performance and perception of music and dance.

·       Speech & Language: Research within and between languages, with infants, children and adults focussing on speech perception, speech production, and related skills such as literacy.

The MARCS Institute is 100-person strong, 1500m² research hub with >$3.5M of specialist equipment for conducting behavioural, neuroscience, and computational research on human-human and human-machine communication in normal, heightened and degraded contexts. MARCS is involved in a range of national and international research collaborations and industry partnerships and the MARCS team includes members and collaborators from Medicine, Neuroscience, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Linguistics, Psychology, Education, Music, and Communication Arts. More information about MARCS' research and researchers can be found at marcs.uws.edu.au.

Expressions of Interest submission

MARCS will offer expert assistance to Future Fellowship applications where these fit closely with one or more aspects of our research program. Please consult the Institute's website (marcs.uws.edu.au/research) for further details of the Institute's research program.

Applicants seeking the endorsement of MARCS need to complete the attached Expression of Interest and forward it by 27 November 2012 (which is earlier than the date advised on the form). These should be sent to UWS Senior Project Development Manager Annette McLaren (a.mclaren@uws.edu.au).

Prospective applicants are advised to contact Annette McLaren before completing the Expression of Interest for guidance regarding the fit between their proposed project and the Institute's research, and the levels of research performance that applicants will need to demonstrate.