Postdoctoral Fellow Position in the Phua Laboratory

We are actively seeking a Postdoctoral Fellow to join us in the following project. This position will be co-supervised with a PI from the Biomedical Engineering Department.

Investigating a transcriptional role of primary cilia in striatal neural computation mediating cognitive flexibility

Qualifications:

The candidate should hold or is going to obtain a PhD in one of the disciplines below:

• Biomedical engineering, systems neuroscience, computational neuroscience or related fields.

• At least one first-author research publication in a peer-reviewed journal

Skills:

1.        Strong motivation and leadership in pursuing challenging scientific questions

2.        An ability to work well with interdisciplinary colleagues

3.        Experience in mentoring and training junior researchers

4.        Excellent written and interpersonal communication skills

5.        Good time and resource management skills

Experience:

1. High proficiency in Python/Matlab (essential requirement)

   •⁠ ⁠⁠Preferably experience working with neural data (spikes, calcium imaging) at scale

   •⁠ ⁠⁠Some background in machine learning with strong grounding in statistical methods

   •⁠ ⁠⁠Familiarity with techniques for dimensionality reduction

2. Expertise in in vivo brain recording techniques, e.g. microendoscopy, electrophysiology, fiber photometry

3. Expertise in rodent stereotaxic surgeries

Candidates should email (i) a description of research interests, (ii) a CV and (iii) the names of 3 references to Dr. Phua at sc.phua@nus.edu.sg. The position is available immediately but we will wait for the candidate with the ideal combination of skills and interests.

Potential Funding opportunity: https://snas.org.sg/saseaf