Research AssistantApplications Closed
Dr Elisa Galliano
Cambridge, UK
Apply by Jun 30, 2021
Application deadline
Jun 30, 2021
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Dr Elisa Galliano
Cambridge, UK
Geocoding in progress.
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Quick Information
Application Deadline
Jun 30, 2021
Start Date
Flexible
Education Required
See description
Experience Level
Not specified
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Job location
Dr Elisa Galliano
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
Job
Job location
Dr Elisa Galliano
Coordinates pending.