Barbara Tillmann

This postdoctoral position is based in Dijon at LEAD-UMR5022 and is part of the international BIO-PREPA research project funded by ERA-NET NEURON . The project focuses on biomarkers and behavioural and neurophysiological tests for the preclinical screening of perinatal asphyxia , with particular attention to rhythm processing and synchronization in early development. The successful researcher will contribute to a multidisciplinary programme combining behavioural tasks , EEG , eye tracking , and motion capture to better understand how rhythm processing develops in infants and how it may be altered by perinatal asphyxia. The work aims to characterise preclinical cases, identify candidate biomarkers, evaluate developmental trajectories, and help improve diagnostic criteria for earlier detection. The position is hosted by Barbara Tillmann in Dijon and involves close collaboration with Sahar Moghimi in Amiens and Birgitta Toth in Budapest, together with other postdoctoral researchers and consortium members. The project brings together partners with complementary expertise in early development, neural data processing, music cognition, computational modelling, and molecular biology. The postdoctoral researcher will work on paradigms assessing infants’ perceptual and cognitive capacities at birth and again between 12 and 18 months, contributing to experiment design, data collection, analysis, and the dissemination of findings through conferences and scientific publications.