Applications are invited for the role of Research Assistant at the Institute of Neuroscience in Trinity College (TCIN) to work in the Multisensory Cognition Lab headed by Prof. Fiona Newell. The Multisensory Cognition lab is generally interested in all aspects of human perception based on vision, hearing and touch. The Research Assistant will join a project aimed at investigating object recognition in children and in adults. The research adopts a multidisciplinary approach involving cognitive neuroscience, statistical modelling, psychophysics and computer science, particularly Virtual Reality. The candidate will participate in regular lab and collaborator meetings, learn about diverse methodologies in perceptual science.
The position is funded for 1 year with a possibility for continuation for another year. Successful candidates are expected to take up the position immediately, but ideally no later than March 2022.

The Research Assistant will join a research team of PhD students, postdoctoral researchers and will have the opportunity to collaborate with colleagues within the Institute of Neuroscience and industrial partners. The group has dedicated laboratory facility equipped with state-of art facilities for behavioural testing, including eye tracking and VR technology (HTC Vive and Oculus). TCIN also houses a research-dedicated MRI scanner, accessible to all principal investigators and their groups.

The Research Assistant will be expected to support the administration and management of the project (e.g. Ethical approval, project website, social media, recruitment of participants, setting up data storage protocols etc.). The will also be required to help with the research, including stimulus creation (i.e. collating and building a database of visual, haptic and auditory stimuli for experiments on multisensory perception), participant testing and data collection. The Research Assistant will also be involved in the initial stages of setting up and testing using an eye tracker (Tobii or Eyelink) and VR/AR apparatus (Oculus or HTC Vive) with other team members and collaborators.