Available positions

Call  n. 4/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 11.02.2013
Principal Investigator: Dr. Olivier Collignon
Research title: The metamodal nature of ‘unisensory’ cortices: Crossmodal Perception and Plasticity.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 27.765,00 /year
Duration of the fellowship: 3 years
Deadline: 04.03.2013
Call
Application form: pdf

Call  n. 10/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 21.12.2012
Principal Investigator: prof. Giorgio Vallortigara
Research title: Biological predispositions for recognition of animacy in human newborn.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 31.732,00/year
Duration of the fellowship: 36 months
Deadline: 16.01.2013
Application form: pdf - word
Results

Call  n. 9/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 20.12.2012
Principal Investigator: prof. Giorgio Vallortigara
Research title: Biological predispositions for recognition of animacy studied by immediate early genes expression (IEGs) in newly-hatched chicks.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 33.054,00 /year
Duration of the fellowship: 36 months
Deadline: 16.01.2013
Application form: pdf
Results

Call  n. 8/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 20.12.2012
Principal Investigator: prof. Giorgio Vallortigara
Research title: Biological predispositions for recognition of animacy studied by Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) techniques.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 31.732,00 /year
Duration of the fellowship: 36 months
Deadline: 10.01.2013
Application form: pdf
Results

Call  n. 6/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 17.12.2012
Principal Investigator: Dr. Louise Johanna Francisca Maria Van Zoest
Research title: Representational dynamics in visual cognition: semantics, eye movements and brain.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 27.765,00  /year
Duration of the fellowship: 24 months
Application form: pdf
Deadline: 10.01.2013
Results

Call  n. 4/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 13.12.2012
Principal Investigator: Dr. Marco Baroni
Research title: Learning Compositionality in Distributional Semantics.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 27.120,19 /year
Duration of the fellowship: 24 months
Application form: word
Deadline: 07.01.2013
Results

Call  n. 2/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 16.11.2012
Principal Investigator: Dr. Luigi Cattaneo
Research title: Development of research techniques using Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and their application to research in cognition.
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 23.800,00 /year
Duration of the fellowship: 24 months
Application form: pdf
Deadline: 10.12.2012
Results

Call  n. 1/2012:  n. 1 research fellowship to be carried out at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento
Published on 09.11.2012
Principal Investigator: prof. Massimo Poesio
Research title: Sentiment analysis using brain-derived polarity lexica
Requirements: see the Call (art. 2)
Fellowship award: € 23.800,00 /year
Duration of the fellowship: 1 year
Application form Pdf - Word
Deadline: 30.11.2012
Results

Closed calls

Calls and applications and results at the bottom of the page, on the right.

Call n.4/2011

Selezione per titoli per il conferimento di n. 1 assegno per la collaborazione ad attività di ricerca presso il Centro Interdipartimentale Mente/Cervello (CIMeC) (CIMeC) dell'Università degli Studi di Trento dal titolo “Rappresentazioni concettuali nel linguaggio e nel cervello”
Ente UniTN
Destinatari
Per l’ammissione alla selezione di cui al precedente art.1 è richiesto il possesso dei seguenti requisiti:
a) possesso del titolo accademico di dottore di ricerca in Linguistica Computazionale (o aree affini) conseguito presso una Università italiana o una istituzione universitaria straniera;
b) per coloro che sono cittadini in un paese diverso da quelli componenti l’Unione Europea, o con il quale la stessa Unione abbia stipulato accordi di libera circolazione, di aver richiesto ovvero di essere in possesso di regolare permesso di soggiorno per lavoro autonomo che copra l’intera durata dell’assegno messo a bando (tale requisito non è richiesto per la mera partecipazione alla selezione); il mancato possesso del permesso di soggiorno alla stipula del contratto determina la decadenza del diritto alla sottoscrizione stessa;
c) possesso di curriculum scientifico - professionale idoneo per lo svolgimento di attività di ricerca descritta nell’art. 1;
d) esperienza consolidata in linguistica computazionale, in particolare in machine learning;
e) esperienza consolidata nella ricerca sulla cognizione (rappresentazione del linguaggio e della conoscenza), inclusa la progettazione di esperimenti;
f) esperienza consolidata nell’ analisi di dati neurali raccolti tramite EEG, MEG e fMRI;
g) conoscenza a livello professionale della lingua inglese.
Deadline: 31 March 2011

Call N.3/2011

Public selection to recruit 1 researcher, on a fixed-term employment contract of 36 months, to carry out research in the ssd M-PSI/01 at the Interdepartmental Centre for Mind/Brain (CIMeC) on the project “Study of the human cortical mechanisms of object perception using fMRI techniques”.
Who can apply:
Application for the selection object of this announcement is open to candidates of any nationality who have obtained a PhD in a scientific-disciplinary sector related to the activities described in art. 1 of this call, or who have a scientific/professional curriculum vitae appropriate to carrying out the research activities described in the same article.
Deadline: February 24, 2011

Call N.2/2011

Announcement of public selection on the basis of scientific qualifications for the award of 1 (one) fellowship, with a duration of 12 months, to undertake research at the Centre for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC) of the University of Trento, under the title “Conceptual representations in language and the brain”
Necessary qualifications
In order to qualify for the Fellowship outlined in art. 1 above, candidates must be in possession of the following:
- a PhD title in computational linguistics, machine learning, neuroscience or similar areas of cognitive science; together with
- at least 3 years of post PhD research experience relevant to the tasks described in section 1.
Deadline: February 9, 2011

Thesis/Internships

CIMeC offers thesis and internships opportunities throughout its many research projects. If any of our projects interest you, please send an updated Curriculum Vitae and a cover letter stating research interest, scientific background and explaining if it is about internship, "tesi di laurea triennale" or "tesi specialistica" and timetable (starting date - defense date) to cimec.inquiries@unitn.it.

Collaborations

Scientific investigation is founded upon the ambition to seek out the answers to those questions that concern us most. A greater chance of successful answers is attained when a cooperative approach is utilized amongst research groups. CIMeC was founded thanks to a collaborative effort within the University of Trento, and plans to propagate the same spirit towards external researchers and groups. If you would like to approach us for a collaboration please email us at cimec@unitn.it.