Research Assistant/Associate in Closed Loop Stimulation

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Salary
Research Assistant: £32,296 to £33,882 per annum.
Research Associate: £34,866 to £37,999 per annum.

The Role
Your role will be to develop and test new approaches to control oscillatory activity in the nervous system. You will use electrophysiological methods in healthy human volunteer subjects, as well as in people with movement disorders.

The project will use the principes of closed loop stimulation, in which non-invasive stimuli will be delivered with timing determined from a recording of endogenous brain or muscle activity. Algorithms developed in the research group allow us to adjust stimulus timing either to enhance or suppress oscillations. Experiments will seek to provide evidence of the efficacy of these algorithms.

This post is fixed-term with an end date of 31.05.25.

For informal enquiries contact: Prof. Stuart Baker, stuart.baker@ncl.ac.uk.

Find out more about the Faculty of Medical Sciences here: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/.

Find out more about our Research Institutes here:https://www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/research/institutes/.

As part of our commitment to career development for research colleagues, the University has developed 3 levels of research role profiles. These profiles set out firstly the generic competences and responsibilities expected of role holders at each level and secondly the general qualifications and experiences needed for entry at a particular level.

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