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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#548DD4">Postdoctoral Fellowship in Cognition and Neuroscience
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.8pt"><span lang="EN-SG" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Young and research-intensive, Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) is ranked 13th globally. It is also placed 1st amongst the
world’s best young universities.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NTU’s School of Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) p<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">rom</span>ot<span style="letter-spacing:.05pt">e</span>s<span style="letter-spacing:.25pt">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:.8pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We are inviting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship position in the field of
<span style="color:black">Cognition and Neuroscience with the following themes -</span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Cognitive Neuroscience: Language and culture, multilingualism development in infancy, inference in communication, vision
and memory, aging, spatial (or navigation) perception and learning, learning, speech and language disorders.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in; text-indent:-.25in"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Principal Investigator/(s):</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> Asst Prof Alice Chan, Asst Prof Xu Hong,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">and/or other cluster members (please find the list of cluster members in the
HSS research cluster link).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Please click the relevant link to find out more about
</span><span style=""><a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">NTU</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">, and
</span><span style=""><a href="http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Clusters/Pages/Home.aspx"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">HSS research clusters</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
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<a href="http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">http://www.ntu.edu.sg/Pages/home.aspx</span></a> )</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Clusters/Pages/Home.aspx"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; color:black">http://www.hss.ntu.edu.sg/Research/Clusters/Pages/Home.aspx</span></a>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Outstanding and promising candidates who have received his/her PhD from a reputable University in fields related to Cognition and Neuroscience.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">The successful candidate is expected to undertake cutting-edge research in the theme either jointly with the NTU counterparts or independently as well as to assist research cluster’s
activities such as organizing workshops.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Subject to mutual agreement, the postdoctoral fellow may undertake some light teaching, no more than one course per academic year, in a relevant disciplinary department at HSS.</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">One year (renewable for up to another year, subject to funding availability and performance appraisal)
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</span></span></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Competitive remuneration and research expense support
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black">Application Information</span></b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Interested candidates are invited to send the Curriculum Vita, cover letter and the application form (attached) to the Cluster Co-Coordinators
Asst Prof Alice Chan (<a href="mailto:alice@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="color:black">alice@ntu.edu.sg</span></a>) and Asst Prof Xu Hong (<a href="mailto:xuhong@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="color:black">xuhong@ntu.edu.sg</span></a>), and also be sent to the Associate
Chair (Research) Office via </span><span style=""><a href="mailto:AD-HASS-RESEARCH@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">VD-HSS-RES@ntu.edu.sg</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003478; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">
.</span><span style=""></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">At least three reference letters, on official letterhead and signed by the referees, are to be sent directly by the referees to the
Cluster Co-Coordinators Asst Prof Alice Chan (<a href="mailto:alice@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="color:black">alice@ntu.edu.sg</span></a>) and Asst Prof Xu Hong (<a href="mailto:xuhong@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="color:black">xuhong@ntu.edu.sg</span></a>), and the
referee letters are to also be extended to the Associate Chair (Research) Office via
</span><span style=""><a href="mailto:AD-HASS-RESEARCH@ntu.edu.sg"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">VD-HSS-RES@ntu.edu.sg</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:#003478; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">
.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify; text-justify:inter-ideograph"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:red; border:none windowtext 1.0pt; padding:0in">Application/s will be reviewed for the position as they come in by the Selection
Committee. Only shortlisted applicants will be notified.</span></p>
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