PONS-Early Career Award—post-doctoral researchers

Department and Faculty
Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) at theInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence(ISTBI) at Fudan University, Shanghai, P.R. China and the Institute ofPsychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King*s CollegeLondon, UK.
Information about the PONS Early Career Award (ECA)
The award aims at applying and developing novel (multimodal) genomic andcomputational neuroscience methodology to identify and characterisebrain structural and functional networks for mechanisticcharacterisation and stratification of behaviour and mental disorders.The successful candidate will develop a research programme developingcomprehensive computational models to describe and explain humanbehaviours and mental disorders based on multimodal -omics information,such as genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics and/or computationalneuroscience and neuroimaging.
Key Objectives
1)Take a leading role in the analysis of multimodal –omics data (e.g.genetics and MRI radiomics) and their relation to behavioural measures.
2)Apply statistical techniques to dimensionality reduction andprediction using –omics, neuroimaging and environmental data
3)Supervising and carrying out genetic and/or neuroimaging analyses,including gene expression, methylation, fMRI functional connectivity,data preprocessing etc.
4)The publication and dissemination of data arising from this project
5)Assist with the supervision of PhD and MSc candidates
Qualifications：
1) Researchers who will receive PhD soon or graduated within last five years.
2) Under 35 years old. Excellent candidates aged 35 to 38 may be considered.
3) Experience in analysing multimodal –omics (e.g. genetic, geneexpression, epigenetics) and/or Neuroimaging (fMRI, structure MRI andDTI) data.
4) Experience and/or interest in behavioural imaging genetics and epigenetics.
5) Very good English language skills.
Benefits：
1) The initial employment period is 4 years with 2 years at ISTBI, FudanUniversity, Shanghai and 2 years at IoPPN, Kings College London.
2) Salary is ¥300k ~400k/year (£34k~£44k/year).
3) Additional research funding up to £23k provided to supportresearchers with excellent ideas and independent capability.
4) Opportunities to top-up salaries up to £10k / year with grant fromShanghai Government.
5) Opportunities to transfer to faculty position with start-up of £55k~£110k.
6) In accordance with the policies of Fudan University, assist childrenof the candidates to apply for admission to kindergartens or primaryschool affiliated to Fudan University.
Application Procedure：
Please send your application consisting of a personal statement and a CVin English language, as well as contact information of referees and PDFof key publications to ********. For an informal discussion to find outmore about the role please contact Prof Gunter Schumann: ******** or DrJia Tianye: ********.