Postdoctoral Fellowships Germany Research Assistant

Postdoctoral Fellowships Research Assistant, Connectionist Reading Model, Germany

Fellowships for those students who hold doctoral degree and a PhD Degree in the field of computer science, cognitive sciences or a closely related field and have experience in programming (C/C++).

Fellowships Job Description: “Anthropological universals – cultural differences” is an interdisciplinary project funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Principal investigators are Prof. Dr. Christian Stetter (Institute for Language and Communication Studies, project leader), Prof. Dr. Walter Huber (Section Neurolinguistics at the Department of Neurology) and Prof. Dr. Martina Ziefle (Human Technology Centre, eHealth). We closely cooperate with Prof. Gert Westermann (Department of Psychology, Oxford Brookes University). The project compares the German writing system with Japanese Kanji as well as their cognitive processing. The aim of the project is to create an empirically appropriate connectionist cognitive model for single word recognition.

Job Description Your Profile:
Applicants must hold a doctoral degree. You should hold a PhD in the field of computer science, cognitive sciences or a closely related field and have experience in programming (C/C++/Matlab), preferably with connectionist networks. You should be highly motivated and eager to explore psycho-linguistic questions with computational modelling.

Your duties and responsibilities Job Description:
You will be responsible for programming and analysing an artificial neural network of single word recognition and lexical decision in Japanese (Kanji). You will cooperate closely with the researchers of the other sub-projects. Half of the time you will stay in Oxford (UK) at the lab of Gert Westermann.

Job Description Our offer:
The candidate will be employed as a regular employee. The position is to be filled as soon as possible and is for a fixed term 15.09.2011. This is a full-time vacancy. If desired, part-time employment may be arranged. The pay scale classification complies with the labour agreement TV-L. RWTH Aachen University has been certified as a “Family Friendly University”. RWTH is committed to promoting the careers of women and therefore looks forward to receiving applications by female candidates. For positions in organisational units where women are underrepresented, in cases of equal qualification, ability and professional achievement, preference will be given to female applicants unless reasons specific to an individual candidate tilt the balance in his favour.

Postdoctoral Fellowships Germany Application Deadline: 30 October 2010

Further Postdoctoral Fellowships Germany fellowship information and Application

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