Full-time Permanent Faculty Positions: Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective
Neuroscience (cSCAN) at the Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology (INP), University
of Glasgow, Scotland
The Centre for Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (cSCAN) is actively pursuing
multiple research appointments at all levels (Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Senior
Lecturer/Associate Professor, Reader/Associate Professor, Professor/Full Professor) to
enrich our internationally connected research-intense environment and world-leading
reputation in social perception, social cognition, social neuroscience, social interaction
and communication, with an emerging leadership in behaviour change. cSCAN members operate
in a research-rich capacity, with teaching-rich staff leading in the innovation and
delivery of education.
Research focus. cSCAN is a uniquely interdisciplinary research environment that brings
together international researchers across a range of complementary disciplines including
Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Computer Science and Engineering who work
together to address central questions in social, cognitive, and affective science.
Interdisciplinary links. Our researchers have close links with centres and departments
across the university, including:
* Computing Sciences. Our interdisciplinary Glasgow Social Robotics group was recently
awarded a UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in Socially Intelligent Artificial
Agents with funding for 50 PhD students over the next 8 years (
https://socialcdt.org/)
* Institute of Health and Well-Being. Many of our members work closely with top
researchers in this world-leading interdisciplinary research centre focused on improving
population health and reducing inequalities.
Facilities and in-house expertise. A wide variety of state-of-the-art methods and
technologies are available:
* Full, on-site brain-imaging suite comprising 7T fMRI, 3T fMRI, MEG, EEG and TMS via
the Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging (CCNi) with expertise in combining technologies
(e.g., fMRI+EEG, MEG+Eye tracking, EEG+TMS). Affiliate facilities include ECoG at The
Glasgow Epilepsy Centre
* A range of technologies used for studying human behavior as well as for the design
of applications, including virtual reality environments and the cSCAN's own state of
the art tools for creating virtual and robotic social agents, specifically for generating
dialog, posture, gestures, facial actions and facial morphology.
* Multiple technologies for capturing behaviour, including eye trackers, 3D facial
morphology, motion capture systems and voice capture.
Researchers also have the following dedicated research support facilities:
* Online, secure Subject Pool (1000+ members, 16-80+ years, 100+ nationalities)
* In-house computing support team providing 6+ Petabytes of storage, High Performance
Computing (HPC, 5k cores, 5Tb RAM, 20+ GPU cards), high-security data management systems,
advice, sourcing and installation of high-performance computing equipment and software
development of on-line research facilities
Links to cSCAN and Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology
https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/research/cs…
http://cscan.gla.ac.uk
https://www.gla.ac.uk/researchinstitutes/neurosciencepsychology/
Please contact cSCAN-vacancies@glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:cSCAN-vacancies@glasgow.ac.uk>
for further information
It is the University of Glasgow's mission to foster an inclusive climate, which
ensures equality in our working, learning, research, and teaching environment. We strongly
endorse the principles of Athena SWAN, including a supportive and flexible working
environment, with commitment from all levels of the organization in promoting gender
equity.
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