PostDoc, Computational and Experimental Approaches to Visual Physiology

Own the computational and experimental approaches to study the physiology of vision. Define clear research questions to advance our understanding of retinal pathophysiology, natural vision, and information encoding in the visual system. Develop and apply data processing pipelines to analyse your own data. Work in collaboration within a small team of scientists. Communicate progress and results clearly in internal updates, written documentation, and project meetings; contribute to conference presentations and scientific manuscripts.

The Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel (IOB) seeks a highly motivated PostDoc. IOB is a research institute combining basic and clinical research. Its mission is to drive innovations in understanding vision and its diseases and develop new therapies for vision loss. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your abilities challenged, and your knowledge expanded. We are recruiting a PostDoc in the Quantitative Visual Physiology group at IOB. The Quantitative Visual Physiology group at IOB sits at a rare intersection: access to human, primate, and rodent retinal tissue combined with the quantitative tools to make sense of it, and close collaboration with clinicians at the Augenspital Basel. If you want to ask fundamental questions about how the visual system encodes information and how that knowledge can be used to help patients, this is the place to do it.

• PhD (or equivalent experience) in computational biology, computational neuroscience, neuroscience, physics, or a related field.

• Strong motivation to develop and refine methods.

• Motivated to work with animals and human participants.

• Highly organized and precise.

• Solid programming and data-analysis skills (e.g., Python or Matlab) and experience working with neurobiological data.