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Research Contract in Embodied Decision-Making and Foraging at the Italian National Research Council Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Italy
Degree Level
Postdoc
Field of study
Computer Science
Funding
Self-financed project funding; annual gross institutional pay of €48,000; contract duration of 2 years.
Deadline
Nov 14, 2026
Country
Italy
University
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
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About this position
The Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche in Rome is recruiting for a research contract within the self-financed project “The Predictive Brain in Action – PredBrain”. The work is centered on the study of embodied decision-making and foraging in human participants, combining experimental design, online data collection, and computational analysis.
The successful candidate will contribute to the full research pipeline: designing and running behavioral studies on online platforms, preparing experimental stimuli and protocols, analyzing multimodal behavioral data such as decisions, movement trajectories, and mouse-tracking, and developing computational models that reproduce participants’ decision processes. The project explicitly connects behavioral experimentation with information-theoretic approaches and statistical inference.
The position is based in the ISTC-CNR research environment, under the scientific guidance of Giovanni Pezzulo. The call highlights experience with online behavioral studies, virtual 2D/3D videogame-like environments, and computational modeling as especially relevant. The contract is part of a broader research program in cognitive science and human behavior at CNR.
The appointment is funded through the PredBrain project and offers an annual gross institutional pay of €48,000 for a two-year period.
Funding details
Self-financed project funding; annual gross institutional pay of €48,000; contract duration of 2 years.
What's required
Applicants must hold a PhD in Physics or an equivalent foreign degree. Candidates in the third year of the relevant PhD may apply if the degree will be obtained within six months after the call is published. Alternatively, candidates may apply with an appropriate scientific-professional CV for research activity, but the doctoral degree is preferred. Candidates must have knowledge of English, and non-Italian citizens must have adequate knowledge of Italian. Applicants must satisfy civil and political rights requirements and the other public-employment eligibility conditions stated in the call, and they must not be current tenured personnel under the relevant Italian university research rules, nor have held incompatible contracts under the cited articles.
How to apply
Submit the application only online through the CNR recruitment portal. Complete the form, upload the required documents, and confirm/finally send the application before the deadline. The portal is https://selezionionline.cnr.it.
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