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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:10.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">A 4 year post-doctoral research associate position is available to work on a European Council-funded project that will use psychophysics,
eye tracking and EEG to investigate auditory attention. We </span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">aim to understand the brain mechanisms involved in selective attention, and create a brain-machine interface able to identify listeners
attentional focus in real time. This research program is part of an international project (“Cognitively controlled Hearing Aid”) which includes partners in ENS, France (Shihab Shamma, Alain de Cheveigne, Daniel Pressnitzer), DTU, Denmark (Torsten Dau), UZH,
Switzerland (Shih-Chii Liu) and Oticon (Thomas Lunner) .</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">You will be supervised by Dr Maria Chait and based at the UCL Ear Institute (<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Salary (inclusive of London allowance)</span></b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"> £33,353 - £37,152
per annum</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Applicants should hold a
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PhD degree (or equivalent)<sup>
</sup><span style="color:black">in an engineering or Neuroscience-related subject and have substantial experience in digital signal processing and computer programming. Previous experience with auditory research and/or functional brain imaging is desirable.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">For an informal discussion please contact Dr. Maria Chait (<a href="mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk">m.chait@ucl.ac.uk</a>). Application should be made via the UCL website:
<a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/</a> (</span></b><b><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Ref:1443980). Application deadline: 07 Dec 2014. Start date: Early 2015.</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The UCL Ear Institute provides state-of-the-art research facilities across a wide range of disciplines and is
</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">one of the foremost centres for hearing, speech and language-related research within Europe.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Maria Chait PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="mailto:m.chait@ucl.ac.uk"><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">m.chait@ucl.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="FR" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Reader in Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">Lab site: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:blue">http://www.ucl.ac.uk/ear/research/chaitlab/</span></a></span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">UCL Ear Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1F497D">332 Gray's Inn Road<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">London WC1X 8EE</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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