Assistant Professor (postdoc) in EEG and exercise neuroscience – The Fit Brain project

The Jagiellonian University's Institute of Psychology (Psychophysiology Laboratory, Faculty of Philosophy) is recruiting a research-staff assistant professor for the NCN-funded project "The Fit Brain: A Novel Approach to Understanding and Maximizing the Mental Benefits of Exercise". The project investigates how physical activity influences brain function, cognition and psychological well-being, and develops and tests a way to individualise exercise using indices of brain activity, recording EEG before, during and after exercise and testing whether brain activity during exercise predicts later neural, cognitive and emotional changes.

Duties include planning and coordinating studies, programming experiments in PsychoPy or similar software, running EEG, psychophysiological and exercise procedures, developing EEG processing pipelines, statistical modelling of experimental and longitudinal data, co-authoring publications and supporting junior team members. Full-time employment contract for 42 months from February 2027, with basic pay of PLN 9,471–11,555 gross per month plus seniority allowance (selection procedure 1227.1101.180.2026).

Doctorate in psychology, cognitive neuroscience, cognitive science, biomedical engineering, data science, biostatistics, computer science, physical culture sciences or a related discipline, meeting NCN post-doc rules (no supervisor relationship with the PI, post-PhD mobility, no other employment contract); documented EEG, neurophysiological or psychophysiological data analysis; MATLAB, Python, R or similar; statistics; at least one EEG analysis type (ERP, frequency or time-frequency); publications appropriate to career stage; very good English; on-site work in Kraków.