**Postdoctoral Research Fellow**:
**Job No.**: 673053
**Location**: Clayton campus
**Employment Type**: Full-time
**Duration**: 2-year fixed-term appointment
**Remuneration**: $114,951 - $136,505 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)
- **Amplify your impact at a world top 50 University**:
- **Join our inclusive, collaborative community**:
- **Be surrounded by extraordinary ideas - and the people who discover them**
**About Us**
At the Monash Centre for Consciousness and Contemplative Studies (M3CS) our mission is to conduct cutting-edge research across humanities, psychology, medicine, and neuroscience. We aim to deliver innovative, experiential, and evidence-based education on mindfulness, contemplative practices, and perennial wisdom, engaging extensively with contemplative communities and partner organisations.
**The Research Fellow Opportunity**
In this position, you will conduct independent and team research, focusing on behavioural science, neuroscience, and computational psychiatry. Responsibilities include computational modelling, designing and conducting experiments, performing statistical analysis, collaborating on conceptual analysis and experimental design, and publishing research articles.
**About You**
You hold a doctoral qualification, with a background in Philosophy, Biology, or Neuroscience, and have strong skills in statistical analysis (e.g., Bayesian methods, mixed linear models), and extensive experience and skills in computational modelling (in particular active inference/reinforcement learning). You have experience with manuscript and research proposal preparation, and have a solid publication record relative to your career stage, and a demonstrated ability to work both independently and as part of an interdisciplinary team.
**About Monash University**
At Monash, work feels different. There's a sense of belonging, from contributing to something ground-breaking - a place where great things happen.
Together with our commitment to academic freedom, you will have access to quality research facilities, infrastructure, world-class teaching spaces, and international collaboration opportunities.
Join the pursuit of our purpose to build a better future for ourselves and our communities - #ChangeIt with us.
Monash supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments and support parents.
**To Apply**
Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.
**Enquiries**: Professor Jakob Hohwy, Director of the Monash Centre for Consciousness & Contemplative Studies, +61 3 9905 3208
**Position Description**: Research Fellow
**Applications Close**: Wednesday 29 January 2025, 11:55pm AEDT
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