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Dr Elisa Galliano

Cambridge, UK
Apply by Jun 30, 2021

Application deadline

Jun 30, 2021

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Dr Elisa Galliano

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Cambridge, UK

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Application Deadline

Jun 30, 2021

Start Date

Flexible

Education Required

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Dr Elisa Galliano

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Cambridge, UK

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Job Description

We are looking for a highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic engineer for designing and building customized cages for rodent behavioural testing. This project is collaboration with the laboratories led by Jasper Poort (visual processing, PDN Department ) and Chris Proctor (bionic systems, Engineering department) groups, and aims at generating a multipurpose automatic apparatus for flexible operant conditioning across multiple sensory modalities (chiefly olfaction and vision). You will be the key person to liaise with original developers, source components, assemble and validate the apparatus, and design a data analysis pipeline. You will work in collaboration with other lab members and the ability to work in a team is essential. Moreover, you will be shadowed by an undergraduate student assigned to this project, which you will be co-supervising.

Requirements

  • Be open-minded
  • creative and self-propelling
  • Have a genuine interest in applying cutting-edge tools to neuroscience research
  • Have excellent communication skills
  • Hold a BSc or equivalent in mechanical or electronic engineering
  • Have technical expertise with scientific precision instrumentation and good dexterity and ability to use fine
  • delicate instruments
  • Be experienced in coding in Python
  • Matlab
  • or C++
  • Have experience of experimental design
  • project management and record keeping
  • Be able to work independently and also capable of collaborating within a group
  • Ideally be experienced in interfacing with commercial equipment