Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Cognitive Neuroscience

We are seeking

a creative and motivated neuroscientist to investigate the mechanisms of flexible learning and decision-making. The postholder will join the Adaptive Decisions Lab (Principal Investigator: Dr Abhishek Banerjee) to lead a research programme examining how the brain supports flexible behaviour in both mice and humans. The project centres on two complementary experimental streams. In humans, the postholder will design and run high-density EEG studies in which participants perform cognitive flexibility tasks to characterise the neural signatures of adaptive decision-making. In parallel, the postholder will analyse imaging datasets acquired from mice performing analogous behavioural tasks, thereby revealing mechanisms that underpin flexibility at the cellular level. This research forms part of Dr Banerjee's Wellcome Trust Career Development Award (2024–2032). It will be carried out in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, in collaboration w...