Grade UE06: £31,396 – £ 36,024 per annum

College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine / Deanery of Biomedical Sciences / Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences

Full-time: 35 hours per week

Fixed-term: 1 year with possibility to extend

We are looking for a Research Associate at graduate/postgraduate level to contribute to join Dr Jian Gan’s lab at the UK Dementia Research Institute, Centre for Discovery Brain Sciences.

The Opportunity:

We investigate real-time neurocircuit dynamics underlying network oscillations, cognition, and decision-making in vivo. With such knowledge, we sort to elaborate on what, where, when, and how such dynamism goes wrong in disease conditions, e.g. dementia. We approach these questions by a combination of state-of-the-art methodologies in neuroscience, for instance in vivo patch-clamp recording, large-scale silicon probe recording, in vivo Ca2+ imaging, well-controlled quantitative behaviours in virtual reality, and optogenetics. The post will primarily involve contributing to behavioural training, data requisition, and data analysis of electrophysiological recording experiments.

For informal inquiries please address to Dr. Jian Gan at [email protected]

Your skills and attributes for success:

• Undergraduate or Master’s degree in neuroscience/bioinformatics/psychology/bioengineering or related disciplines.
• Experience in working with experimental animals.
• Competence in one programming language like Matlab or Python.
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records to document the research progress. Present data at group meetings, section meetings, and conferences to make data available for other workers. Regular reporting of progress to the PI/other members of the research team is expected. Presentation of research findings at national and international level.
• Assist with supervision of student projects and/or instruction of students with routine lab work.

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As a valued member of our team you can expect:

An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

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Closing date: 27th November 2023.

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Interviews will be held within 2 weeks of closing date.

The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.