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Postdoc positions

We are looking to hire two postdocs to join our lab at UCL and/or MIT with a flexible start date.

  1. Postdoc 1: Experience in app and plug-in development + experience in computational aspects of and/or neuroscience of information seeking/ decision making. Experience with NLP is an advantage. The postdoc will work on using web browsing behavior to study information-seeking and well-being. For more information see here: https://affectivebrain.com/?page_id=7596
  1. Postdoc 2: Experience in computational neurosciencerelated to reward processing and/or decision-making and/or information seeking and/or language.

 To apply please send CV and links to 2 representative publication to t.sharot at ucl.ac.uk

PhD studentship

We will be taking on several PhD students to start Oct 2025. Our available funding is for UK citizens and permanent residences only. If you are eligible please email t.sharot at ucl.ac.uk with your CV beginning August 2024. We will interview candidates on a rolling basis until late Nov 2024.

If you are not a UK citizen or permanent resident click here for more information about funding opportunities for PhD students.

PhD students will benefit from the lab’s following affiliations: The Max Planck Center for Computational Psychiatry, UCL; The Department of Experimental Psychology, UCL; The Minds and Machines Initiative, UCL; The Department of Brain and Cognitive Science, MIT.