Research Assistant

About the role

Salary: £37,332 - £39,980 p.a. inclusive of London Allowance

The Stephenson-Jones lab is looking for a Research Assistant interested in working in a systems neuroscience lab. Your role will be to help other senior members of the lab carry out their research programs as well as develop your own projects if desired. You will contribute to the design of experiments, and set them up and run them. You will train animals on virtual reality behaviours and help perform optogenetic and in vivo electrophysiological experiments. In addition, you will be expected to help with the administration of the lab including maintaining the animal colony.

About you

You will have a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in neuroscience, physics, or a related field and be able to contribute to research projects within the laboratory. You will have experience with reinforcement learning literature, theory and modelling. Experience of python and bonsai programming or equivalent coding languages is essential. Strong written and oral communication skills, with the ability to present complex information effectively are essential. You will have excellent organisation skills and be confident working effectively alone, but also able to contribute and work well as part of a team. Independent research experience, with evidence of achievement within the appropriate subject area (e.g. presented posters, given research talks) is desirable.

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