A three-year post-doctoral position in theoretical neuroscience is open to explore the mechanisms of interaction between interoceptive cardiac and exteroceptive tactile inputs at the cortical level. We aim to develop data-based computational models of cardiac and somatosensory cortical circuit dynamics. Building on these models we will determine the conditions under which interactions between exteroceptive and interoceptive inputs occur and which underlying mechanisms (e.g., phase-resetting, gating, phasic arousal,..) best explain experimental data.