埃克塞特大学博士后职位招聘–健康和生命科学学院
This new full-time post is immediately available until 3 September 2026 on a fixed term basis.
This role offers the opportunity for hybrid working – some time on campus and some from home.
We welcome applications from candidates interested in working part-time hours or job-sharing arrangements.
This role may be subject to additional background screening.
The post
The Faculty wishes to recruit a Postdoctoral Research Associate to support the work of Dr Alexander Shaw. The successful applicant will be part of a Wellcome funded multi-site project developing a translational framework for personalised psychiatry, harnessing the transdiagnostic stratification of sleep EEG.
Large-scale psychiatric genomics studies have catalogued a suite of chromosomal deletions or duplications (copy number variants, CNVs) associated with significantly increased risk of intellectual dysfunction and neurodevelopmental disorders, including schizophrenia. Children carrying these psych-CNVs have high risk of early-onset insomnia, exhibit restless sleep and abnormal sleep-dependent EEG oscillations. This project will therefore work with young psych-CNV carriers to map links between sleep problems and daily challenges arising from impaired memory, attention and social interactions.
The project team spans University of Bristol, Cardiff University and University of Exeter, and includes researchers with expertise across clinical, psychological and neuroscientific domains.
This post will be based in Exeter and will focus on computational models of thalamo-cortical dynamics to explain and unpack the sleep-EEG data. This crucial part of the project will also use machine learning and statistical models to interrogate the relationship between sleep EEG and detailed clinical, phenotypic and genomic data to deliver a translational framework for personalised psychiatry, harnessing the transdiagnostic stratification of sleep EEG. You will work closely with other postdocs and the wider research team at other sites, and will be involved in engaging patients with lived experience (PWLE) from the beginning of the project.
About you
The successful applicant will be able to present information on research progress and outcomes, communicate complex information, orally, in writing and electronically and prepare proposals and applications to external bodies.
Applicants will possess a relevant PhD (or be nearing completion) or possess an equivalent qualification/experience in a related field of study and be able to demonstrate sufficient knowledge in the discipline and of research methods and techniques to work within established research programmes.
Applicants will have expertise in analysis of human neurophysiological data (e.g. E/MEG), experience with computational neuroscience (e.g. Dynamic Causal Modelling or knowledge of dynamical systems and optimisation), experience with predictive statistical models and machine learning classifiers.
Please ensure you read the Job Description and Person Specification for full details of this role.
For further information please contact Dr Alex Shaw, e-mail a.d.shaw@ex.ac.uk.