Postdoc in System Neuroscience, Sleep and Memory at the Paris Brain Institute Paris Brain Institute in France

Postdoc Opportunity in System Neuroscience at the Paris Brain Institute

This is a fully funded 2-year postdoctoral position (renewable depending on funding availability) in the Paris Brain Institute in Paris, France, in the group of Antoine Bergel (CNRS Researcher, Atip-Avenir Emerging Group Leader). The project sits at the intersection of neuroscience, sleep, memory, neurovascular mechanisms, functional ultrasound imaging, electrophysiology, and optogenetics.

The successful candidate will help decipher how sleep-related neurovascular activity contributes to memory processes. The work is highly multidisciplinary and combines experimental work in rodents with behavioral neuroscience, imaging, electrophysiology, and advanced data analysis. The postdoc will also contribute to developing the new research team, validating experimental designs, and building acquisition and analysis pipelines.

Key responsibilities include surgical training for combined functional ultrasound and electrophysiology experiments, postoperative care and monitoring in rats and mice, multimodal data acquisition during behavioral tasks, closed-loop optogenetic stimulation design, collaborative work with team members and core facilities, and multimodal data analysis (behavior, sleep scoring, spike sorting, image processing). The role also includes documentation, reproducibility, open-source archiving, literature review, presentations, mentoring, article writing, and grant writing.

Eligibility highlights: a PhD in Experimental Neuroscience is required. Applicants should have at least one first-author publication or preprint in neurophysiology or neuroimaging, experience with rodent neurophysiology and behavioral tasks, and programming skills in Matlab or Python. English proficiency is required; French is not required. Knowledge of cognitive neuroscience/neurophysiology, wave physics, statistics, and animal experimentation ethics is expected. Motivation, autonomy, teamwork, communication, and organizational skills are emphasized.

Funding: 2-year junior postdoctoral salary, full-time employment, with training and conference support. The candidate may be encouraged to seek additional external funding (e.g., Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions or Human Science Frontiers Program).

Application window: deadline is 2026-04-30. Apply by email with a CV, motivation letter, personal statement, and links to your scientific work or science-related project. Two reference letters will be requested after initial screening, followed by interviews.

Institution: Paris Brain Institute (Institut du Cerveau), Paris, France.